Abstract: A compact oven for preparing freshly baked cakes, muffins, and breads from a pourable batter or vertically oriented disk-shaped molds. A hinged cover completes the enclosure. Heat is applied to each vertical side of the molds.

Abstract: To control temperature of brewing water, check valve of flow-through-heater-type coffee maker is modified so that travel of the check valve is adjustable to control rate of flow through the heating tube and, as a consequence, temperature of extracting water.

Abstract: An electric iron is provided with an orientation-detecting switch and a timing circuit, which, after the iron is unmoved in the horizontal or vertical positions for preset times, respectively, activates a heating resistor in the iron to trigger a manually resettable thermostatic cutoff switch. The iron also includes a temperature-sensing resistor and a potentiometer in circuit with a comparator and indicator means, whereby when the temperature reaches a level to which the potentiometer is set, the indicator means indicate that the iron is at ready temperature.