Abstract: A portable needle syringe destroyer apparatus that includes a housing with a handle, three lights and a switch on top and a metal plate on, the front at an oblique angle. The destroyer apparatus includes: a battery, battery charge monitor, battery charger and current regulator interior to the housing. The metal plate floats on a spring and moves when a needle is inserted into the opening on the plate. The current is applied through the switch to instantly heat the metal plate high enough and cause the immediate destruction of the needle, any pathogens on or in it and seal the syringe with a small metal ball at the needle hub. The result is irrevocably disposing of the needle and rendering their toxins harmless.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a vessel adapted to receive a liquid, and which vessel has a drive shaft extending through the bottom of the vessel from an electric motor below the vessel to a rotary cutting or grinding blade or the like within the vessel, with a seal being provided to seal the vessel with respect to the drive shaft, has a safety device in the form of a cut-out switch which is normally held in its closed position by a plate of water-absorbent, cellulose-fibre based material disposed below the seal. Any aqueous liquid leaking from the seal will wet the plate reducing its strength and allowing the plate to bend to allow the cutout switch to move, under resilient bias to an open position, thus cutting off the supply of electrical current to the electric motor.

Abstract: An appliance for making sorbet or ice cream and including means for preventing the mixer blades from becoming locked in the ice by effecting the progressive withdrawal of these blades from a vertical orientation towards a horizontal orientation under the action of the opposing torque applied to the blades by the hardening of the ice during freezing, and an automatic stopping device which is mechanically operable as a result of the withdrawal of the blades or a part associated therewith to break the motor supply circuit when the blades reach their withdrawn position.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying a cooking mix to the rotary cooking drum of an automatic machine for making pancakes or the like by means of a continuously rotating paste-entraining roller partly immersed to a substantially constant depth in a mix tank, the film of mix being entrained by adhesion on the surface of the roller and contacting movable means for partly retaining this film, resulting in the formation of a bead of mix which touches lightly upon the surface of the cooking drum and thus coats it.

Abstract: An appliance for making sorbet or ice cream and including means for preventing the mixer blades from becoming locked in the ice by effecting the progressive withdrawal of these blades from a vertical orientation towards a horizontal orientation under the action of the opposing torque applied to the blades by the hardening of the ice during freezing, and an automatic stopping device which is mechanically operable as a result of the withdrawal of the blades or a part associated therewith to break the motor supply circuit when the blades reach their withdrawn position.

Abstract: A yoghurt-making machine comprises an enclosure inside which a receptacle containing milk pots is disposed above a basin. The space between the receptacle and basis is partly filled with a fusible material, such as commercial paraffin wax which has a cooling curve exhibiting a solidification plateau at a temperature near to the optimum temperature of yoghurt formation. A heating resistor attached to the basin is immersed in the fusible material which is thereby heated. The basin has a bottom defining with the enclosure a closed chamber completely separated from the fusible material. A temperature-limiting element is connected to the resistor and disposed so as to be responsive only to the air temperature within the chamber and is operable to terminate the heating of the fusible material when the temperature in the chamber is higher than the solidification plateau of the fusible material.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying a cooking mix to the rotary cooking drum of an automatic machine for making pancakes or the like by means of a continuously rotating paste-entraining roller partly immersed to a substantially constant depth in a mix tank, the film of mix being entrained by adhesion on the surface of the roller and contacting movable means for partly retaining this film, resulting in the formation of a bead of mix which touches lightly upon the surface of the cooking drum and thus coats it.

Abstract: A thermostatic regulating device for the surface of a heating cylinder of a cooking appliance consisting essentially of a stretched metal wire applied along a spiral path with a wide helix angle to the surface of the cylinder, the variations in the length of the wire due to heat-induced expansion or contraction acting after amplification on a microswitch incorporated in the heating circuit for said cylinder.