Abstract: Pouring receptacle for infusion, adapted to be placed in a microwave oven and comprising a body (1) to which is secured a handle (2) by an encircling band (3), the body (1) and the handle (2) being of a material transparent to microwaves. The encircling band (3) clamps a portion (4, 16) of the handle (2) to the body (1) and is of a material having a coefficient of expansion near that of the body, transparent to microwaves and resistant to deformation during successive thermal cycles. The band is a structure reinforced by fibers. The fibers can be applied by winding from a spool, or the band (3) can be molded and heated to expand it so it slips over the body (1) and cools and contracts to grip the body (1) firmly.

Abstract: A cylinder (3) is closed, on the one hand, by a cover (4) and, on the other hand, by a ferrule (5) traversed by a rotatable shaft (6). The cylinder (3) is so disposed as to close an infusion chamber (15) delimited by the cover and by a sliding piston (17) driven by a translatory drive (18) integral with the shaft. A jacket (19) is slidably mounted by an actuating device (20) connected to the shaft (6), the piston (17) is itself slidably mounted in the jacket (19), the different positions of the jacket and of the piston being defined relative to each other by a selector (35) of the number of rotations of the shaft. Application particularly for household coffeemaking machines.

Abstract: A securement member (13-18) has a relatively rigid foot (4-25) adapted to be secured on a first member (1) and prolonged by a body (5-19) provided in at least one region of its side surface with protuberant elastic hooking formations (7-20), and a seat (8-23) provided in the second member (2) whose internal side wall (9-24') has a shape of revolution, and adapted to receive with friction the body (5-19) and the hooking formations (7-20). The securement member (3-18) and the seat (8) comprise a mutual unlocking assembly (13-22, 24) permitting, by movement of rotation between the securement member (3-18) and the seat (8-23), effecting the escape of the hooking formations from the side wall of the seat. The invention is particularly applicable to devices for securing an appliance housing on a wall.

Abstract: Cooking apparatus such as, for example, an oven includes a cooking chamber (1) having at least one electrical heating element (9) having a tubular envelope (10) of fragile material of the type of quartz or glass which is mounted in supports (16, 17) secured to the chamber (1) so as to maintain the envelope (10) at a distance from the internal wall of the chamber. The tubular envelope (10) is enclosed in a cage (18) whose wall (19) is sufficiently pierced to let pass the infrared radiation toward the interior of the chamber (1) and sufficiently rigid to resist any mechanical shock. The cage (18) is provided with members (24, 25) for securing it to the internal wall of the chamber (1).

Abstract: A household coffeemaker comprises a cold water reservoir (1) supplying a water heater (2) of the circulating type whose outlet is connected to a water channel (3) of a coffee filter (4). The water heater comprises a heating resistance (7) whose supply circuit is connected to the terminals (8) of a source of alternating current. The supply circuit of the resistance (7) comprises a device (11) for changing the electric power supplied to the resistance (7) so as to supply, during a first so-called pre-steeping phase, a low power to obtain a low flow rate of hot water, and during a second so-called infusion phase, a higher power to obtain a higher flow rate of hot water. The invention is applicable to drip coffeemakers.

Abstract: A hair dryer comprises a housing (1) of which one portion comprises a mounting for securement on a wall (P), and which contains a hot air generator group (3-4) controlled by a switch (5) and adapted to establish a current of air between an air inlet opening (6) and a hot air outlet opening (7). The hot air outlet opening receives a connector (8) secured to a flexible tube (9) provided with a drying nozzle (10) which can be brought, either into a retracted or rest position in which the switch is open, or into a use position in which the switch is closed. The connector (8) is rotatably movably mounted on the air outlet opening (7), and comprises an actuator (14) for the switch (5) such that the movement of the nozzle (10) from its retracted or rest position to its use position brings, by transmission of the movement of the nozzle to the connector by the flexible tube, the switch into its closed position, and vice versa.

Abstract: A can opener comprising an electric motor (2) driving in rotation a shaft (4) carrying a roller (7), as well as a cutting blade (9), the shaft being mounted both rotatably and axially movably by a bidirectional drive mechanism comprising a compression spring (14) and a device for reversing the direction of rotation of the shaft comprising two electrical switches, a start switch (16) and a stop switch (17), which are mounted in the supply circuit of the motor. The spring (14) comprises two portions, a cylindrical portion (19) with touching turns and a truncated conical portion (21) whose turns do not touch and of which a free end (22) is adapted to come, either into abutment against a finger (23) provided on a wall (6) of the casing (1), or to bear against the stop switch (17), so as to cut the feed to the motor.

Abstract: A kitchen oven comprises, in a chamber (2), a drippings pan (6) supporting a spit (8) and adapted to occupy two positions, either a cooking position in which the drip-pings pan is in the chamber and the spit is in the axle of a rotatable drive (9), or a retracted position in which the drippings pan is partially outside the chamber (2) and the spit (8) is free from the drive. The drippings pan and the walls (3) of the oven comprises mutually sliding surfaces (20, 21) so arranged that, prior to the cooking position, the surfaces exert on each other a force F directed toward the rear of the oven tending to position the drippings pan automatically in its cooking position.

Abstract: An electric deep fat fryer comprising a pan (1) for containing a cooking bath (2), an electric heating resistance, and a basket (3) for foodstuff to be fried, the basket being adapted to occupy either a lowered position in which the pan is immersed in the bath or an elevated position in which the basket is maintained above the bath. Mechanism (4) is provided for lowering and raising the basket, controlled by a control device comprising a timer (5). The mechanism for lowering and raising the basket and the timer are driven by a single motor (6). The control device comprises an automatic selector (25) controlled by a control member (26) of the timer and by the position of the basket, so as to drive either the timer when the basket occupies its lowered position, or the mechanism for lowering and raising the basket. Particular utility in household deep fat fryers.

Abstract: Support for a spit (1) mounted on a drippings pan (2) and comprising two opposite supports (3) each insulated from the drippings pan by an insulating base (5) comprising a head (7) that rests on a margin (8) of the drippings pan. At least one foot (9, 10) passes through a corresponding opening (12, 13) of the drippings pan. Each opening comprises a skirt (14), and the height (h) and the section (s1, s2) of the foot are dimensioned as a function of the section (a1, a2) of the opening such that, during swinging of the support about a horizontal axis (15-16-17) by pressing of the head on the margin of the drippings pan, a region (19-20-21) of the foot opposite that axis will come to bear against the skirt, thereby preventing the foot from leaving the opening. Application to ovens with combined microwave and resistance heating.

Abstract: A filter holder designed for use with a coffee machine of the "espresso" type comprises a receptacle for receiving a perforated filter cup. The filter cup and the receptacle together define an infusion collecting chamber underlying the filter cup. The infusion collecting chamber communicates via an outlet with a distributing funnel extending downardly from the receptacle. At the opening of the outlet channel there is disposed the free end of a flexible blade extending transversely of the channel. The free end of the flexible blade is applied with a predetermined force against the opening of the channel such that the infusion discharged from the outlet channel emanates in a laminar flow and is atomized upon contact with a partition surrounding the free end of the blade, to produce a substantial quantity of foam.

Abstract: Cooking process with an oven comprising a cooking chamber (1) and a control device (2) supplying a convection resistance (3), a broiling resistance (4) and a magnetron (5). During the temperature increase phase (a), the control device supplies the convection resistance continuously and the broiling resistance according to a start-stop cycle of predetermined period (t.sub.1), while the microwave energy is applied periodically during each stopped time (t.sub.3) of the broiler for a time (t.sub.4) such that, for a previously set predetermined time (t.sub.5), the microwave time is equal to the shorter of the times, namely the predetermined time (t.sub.5), or the stopped time (t.sub.3) of the broiler. This process is particularly applicable to kitchen ovens.

Abstract: Electric iron having a cast sole (1A) closed by a cover (2) and in which are provided two chambers (6, 7) separated from each other by a partition (8), namely, a principal vaporization chamber (6) fed with water by an injection device through an opening (9) provided in the cover (2), the water being vaporized by a sheathed resistance (10) embedded in the sole (1A), and a steam distribution chamber (7) communicating on the one hand with the principal vaporization chamber (6) by a passage (11) provided in the partition (8), and on the other hand with the exterior through outlet orifices (12) provided in the sole (1A). The sole (1A) also comprises an intermediate vaporization chamber (15) disposed between the principal vaporization chamber (6) and the distribution chamber (7) and extending adjacent the injection opening (9) of the water.