Abstract: An outdoor food frying apparatus provides a frame that includes a cabinet having an open top and a open bottom. The frame can be in the form of a plurality of cabinet walls supportive upon a plurality of legs. A burner element is supported upon the frame and within the cabinet interior. The burner element includes a pair of spaced apart burner sections. The pot has a v-shaped bottom comprised of a pair of panels that intercept to form a obtuse angle. One of the burner sections directs a flame against one of the bottom panels, the other of the burner sections directing a flame against the other of the bottom panels. A slot on the cabinet extends to the open top, the valve traveling in the slot when the pot is placed upon the frame in a cooking position. A plurality of baskets are provided that selectively fit the pot interior including one basket that substantially fills the cabinet interior and a second basket that is much smaller than the first basket.

Abstract: A cooking device includes a base and a cooking container assembled to the base. The base includes a fixing base and at least a first height adjustable heating component. The first heating component is disposed with a first heating source and is movably assembled to the fixing base. The first heating component is movably assembled to the fixing base, thus making the position of the first heating resource adjustable. The position of the first heating source is adjusted according to the position of the bottom surface of the cooking container, so that the first heating source is close to the bottom surface of the cooking container, thus heating the cooking container equally and with deformation resistance.

Abstract: A product warming apparatus with at least one product holding container having a bottom surface. An enclosure includes at least one opening configured to receive the product holding container. A heat radiating plate is provided in thermal communication with and configured to receive heat from a heating element. The heat radiating plate includes a top surface disposed adjacent the bottom surface of the product holding container with the top surface of the heat radiating plate being spaced apart from the bottom surface of the product holding container to define a gap therebetween. A thermostatic controller is in thermal communication with the heat radiating plate for controlling a flow of heat to the heat radiating plate.

Abstract: A warming apparatus for warming a container having outer walls, the apparatus including a warmer body, at least one container holder, open at both ends, defined in the body, the container holder including holder walls adapted and configured to cradle a portion of the outer walls of a container for releasably holding that portion of the outer walls, and at least one heating element disposed in the warmer body adjacent the container holder.

Abstract: A counter-top cooker includes a base, a cooking chamber having a top end and a bottom end supported on the base, and a power head attached to the top end of the cooking chamber. The power head includes a heating element and a fan for directing airflow over the heating element and into the cooking chamber. The cooker also includes another heating element provided in the cooking chamber proximate the bottom end of the cooking chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hanging assembly for supporting an electric heater below a chafing dish or chafing pan. The removable electric chafing dish heater is supported by two identical hanging assemblies each with an elastic component to provide a constant thermal interface to the underside of a typical chafing dish. The hanging assembly provides a bent and curved device for holding the hanging assembly fast to a typical chafing frames that typically accompanies all chafing dishes. The chafing dish heater includes an electric flat plate element in a rectangular housing that is connected to a power assembly. The power assembly has an on/off switch, a power cord, and a visual indicator for representing the power is on/off.

Abstract: An electromagnetic stove structure, particularly an electromagnetic stove having a face panel on which an independent type heating plate that can be separated from the electromagnetic stove is disposed. The bottom portion of the heating plate is provided with a protective hood accommodating induction coils, a temperature sensor and iron powder cores. The electromagnetic stove has disposed thereon a positioning post that can be adjusted to extend or retract and to rotate and that is connected to a securing frame on a pot. The heating plate can be removed together with the pot by means of electromagnets adhering to the bottom side of the pot. The pot can swing about a suitable angle by using the positioning post as center of rotation, and can be in contact with the heating pot all the time to be heated thereby.

Abstract: A syrup warming system for warming syrups and the like contained within a container that includes a mechanism for varying the amount of heat provided to a syrup container without varying the amount of heat supplied by a heating element. The heating element is powerable by a battery. The mechanism is a removable, adjustable height pitcher support basket including a tubular top member and a cup-shaped bottom member. The syrup warming system may include a number of interconnectable warming units that are securable together if desired.

Abstract: A food warming and holding receptacle lowered by a source of electrical energy comprises a well supported on a planar surface , and at least one tray containing food disposed in the well. A sheath is fixed to the well and at one-piece, flattened, looped heating element is slidably mounted in the she the and connected with the source of electrical energy for conveying heat to the food in the tray. A temperature sensor is slidably mounted in the sheath for monitoring the temperature of the heating element.

Abstract: A sterilizer including a head and a detachable container sealingly engageable therewith to provide a pressure-resistant chamber. The head has a heating element mounted therein. The head is pivotably mounted to a frame such that the sterilizer may be selectively moved between a horizontal inoperative position and a vertical operative position with the container extending upwardly from the head. The water or sterilizer fluid are brought into contact with the heating element when the sterilizer is moved to the operative position so as to cause the fluid to vaporize and pressurize the chamber resulting in articles positioned in the chamber being sterilized.

Abstract: A portable heating assembly for use in a portable food warmer/server is provided including an electrical heating element supported on a protective rack. Mounting means are provided for detachably mounting the heating assembly to a support member. The heating assembly is adapted to be vertically movable between an upper limit and a lower limit and includes a biasing means for resiliently biasing the heating element in the upper limit.

Abstract: A soldering system includes M soldering tools, where M is .gtoreq.1 and is an integer and N soldering tips where N is .gtoreq.1 and is an integer with one of the N tips attached to one of the M soldering tools. The soldering system also includes a control circuit connected to the one tool having the one tip attached to it. The control circuit maintains the one tip at a desired temperature. The control circuit has a device for inputting the desired temperature at which the control circuit maintains the temperature of the one tip. In a preferred embodiment, each of the N tips have an identity and each of the M tools have an identity. The control circuit maintains the one tip attached to the one tool at a desired temperature which is inputted into the control circuit through the input device. The control circuit identifies which of the N tips is attached to the tool by the identity of the one tip attached to the one tool being inputted into the control circuit through the input.

Abstract: A cooking pot of the waterless type has an electrical heating element in the thick base thereof. The heating element can be permanently embedded in the base. Alternatively the base can have a blind recess therein into which an electrical heating structure is inserted. This structure is removable from the recess. Various stands for supporting the pots and making electrical connections to the heating structures are also disclosed.

Abstract: A fixedly positioned hot plate, particularly for use with a coffee maker, has an upper surface for receiving a container of liquid to be maintained at a constant temperature. An electric heating device arranged underneath the hot plate includes a plate member movable between a first position in biased engagement with the underside of the hot plate and a second position spaced therefrom to vary the heat exchange rate therebetween. Secured to the underside of the plate member is a metallic sheathed heating having a water heating pipe soldered to the periphery thereof. A temperature sensitive element, e.g. U-shaped bimetal, thermally coupled to the heating device has a first portion connected to a downwardly dependent stud secured to the underside of the hot plate and extending freely through a bore in the plate member an a second portion secured to the plate member.

Abstract: A small foldable household appliance having an elevated body supported by a stand, and having a safety hinge by which the appliance can be locked in an unfolded operating position, and by which the appliance can be folded for storage by depressing small buttons on either side of the appliance.

Abstract: An electric dual and quick cooking utensil includes, as usual, an outer casing, an inner pot movably provided in the outer casing, and a hood detachably coupled with the upper rim of the outer casing with respect to the inner pot. In addition to a grip and a plurality of air vents integrally formed thereto, the hood includes a metal hub, a hollow pipe, and a first heater respectively installed therein for baking operation. A pair of magnetic-type switches separately installed on the hood and the outer casing for providing power supply to the first heater. A hollow base is integrally coupled with the lower portion of the outer casing with a plurality of plates separately provided in the upper portion of the hollow base. A second heater and a blowing fan are respectively disposed on the plates, and a sensing device coupled with an IC board is installed in a round plate in conjunction with the inner pot.

Abstract: An electromechanical system for generating heat in metallic vessels, includes a vessel which acts as a load resistance for the secondary of a transformer having a very low voltage and a high current. The voltage developed in the secondary of the transformer is applied directly to the vessel between two diametrically opposed areas comprising contact members on the vessel. Electrodes are engaged to press against the contact members and the electrodes are connected to the terminals of the secondary of the transformer. The system includes a mechanism for controlling the distance between the electrodes for separating the electrodes from the contact members on the vessel in order to remove or place the vessel between the electrodes and for moving the electrodes closer together with strong pressure against the contact members on the vessel for closing the electric circuit of the secondary.

Abstract: A spacer for positioning intermediate the bottom of a beverage container and a planar heating surface of an electrically heated hot plate of a coffee maker is formed as a continuous heat conductive wire element positioned to rest immediately above and in contact with the planar surface to support a beverage container and to space said container a small distance above the heat source. The spacer may be fabricated of a stainless steel wire of suitable dimension such as one of approximately 1/16 of an inch in diameter, and may be bent in a form which provides uniform support for a coffee pot over the surface of the hot plate. The spacer is secured in place by means of lateral arms which are attached by means of a hinge to the base of the apparatus so that the spacer can be made to swivel upwardly about the hinge and out of the way to facilitate cleaning or to permit the option of nonuse of the spacer if so desired.

Abstract: A built-in well type food warmer includes a heating element assembly which is separably engaged with the underside of a food well by adjustable hanger members. The heating element assembly includes an upper heat distribution plate which is nestable within a recess formed in the bottom of the food well. The heating element assembly is enclosed by a tray member which is resiliently mounted within an enclosure. Brackets extending outwardly from the enclosure are attached to the lower ends of baffle hangers which extend downwardly from an upper rim of the food well. The hangers are formed of two separable members, adjustably connected together for selectively adjusting the length of the hanger. As the hangers are shortened, the heating element assembly is resiliently biased into contact with the bottom surface of the food well within a recessed portion thereof.

Abstract: An adjustable temperature warming plate for an electric coffee maker in which a fixedly positioned metal hot plate has an electric heating element disposed beneath and adjacent the hot plate with the supporting means for the electric heating element permitting the heating element to pivot about a contact point near the edge of the hot plate for varying the thermal coupling of the heating element to the hot plate by changing the spacing between the heating element and the hot plate. A pressure element is provided to urge the heater toward the contact point and a setting element is provided to adjust the spacing between the heating element and the hot plate. This provides a simple and reliable means for varying the thermal coupling of the heating element to the hot plate and consequently the temperature of the warming plate. The heating element includes a tube unitary therewith forming a continuous flow water heating tube for the coffee maker.

Abstract: A presser member, into which the container is loaded, is manually depressable against the action of its return spring into pressure-contact engagement of the container with an electric heating plate containing a PTC heating resistor. The depression stroke produces closure of a switch to energize both the PTC resistor and an electromagnet keeping the presser member in its depressed condition. A timer circuit opens the switch at the elapse of a prealably experimentally determined heating time during which the liquid reaches its consumption temperature, whereby heating is terminated and the return spring lifts the pressure member with the container to unloading position.

Abstract: A device for heating a drink in a thermoplastics container sealed by a metal cover, in which the container is placed in a support upside-down and depressed to bring its cover into contact with an electrical heater, the depression of the container support operating a microswitch which energizes the heater and a support-retaining electromagnet to heat the container for a timed interval. The resistance of the heater is measured during heating by a Wheatstone bridge and utilized to regulate the temperature reached by the heater.

Abstract: A portable holder and height adjuster for beverage warmers is provided to improve the storage of a heated beverage for long periods of time and to reduce evaporation and spoilage that holds the partially filled decanter above the warming element on decanter holders suspended on adjustable compressible springs which are clamped to the base of the warmer.

Abstract: An electrical appliance for heating feeding-bottles, baby-food pots and containers of a similar type comprises a support and a heating element which is intended to come into contact with the container. The appliance further comprises a relatively flexible heating quilt which is fixed along a support handle, the quilt being intended to be wound and detachably fastened around the feeding-bottle or container to be heated.

Abstract: The room thermostat for the room whose temperature is to be set-back is enclosed in an enclosure having an air inlet at the bottom and an air outlet at the top. Air from the room flows into the enclosure through the inlet and out through the outlet. During the interval when the temperature is to be set-back, the inlet air is preheated by a lamp in a second enclosure in communication with the first enclosure through the inlet. The lamp remains energized throughout the whole set-back interval. To set the magnitude of the set-back the lamp is pivotal between a position where substantially all of its heat is maintained within the second enclosure and a position where a large portion of its heat is dissipated outside of the second enclosure. The room thermostat responds to the increased temperature in the first enclosure to set-back the ambient temperature in the room.