Abstract: An apparatus for producing prepared food by electrical conduction comprising: a processing container for electrical conduction having an opened top, a pair of electrodes mounted on both inner sides of the processing container, one ends of said electrodes extending to the outside so that a contact part is formed; a base to which said processing container may be detachably disposed; a control box for electrical conduction, mounted on one side of said base, provided with a transmission part adapted to be in contact with said contact part of the processing container so that electricity transmits to said electrodes; an operating arm vertically pivoted to the top of said control box; a lid disposed on the end of said operating arm and covering the open top of said processing container; and a temperature sensor fitted up with the tip of said operating arm and sensing a temperature of said processing container.

Abstract: A container having an open upper end is provided with a moisture permeable film member disposed inside the container in such a manner that two outer surfaces of the film member face two mutually opposing inner surfaces of the container, and with a pair of electrodes disposed in the gaps formed between these inner and outer surfaces. A food material, a suitable amount of electrolyte and a suitable amount of water are placed within the moisture permeable film member, and they are then cooked by being subjected to warming or heating by supplying electricity to the electrodes so that current flows therebetween.

Abstract: In order to prepare foods by utilizing electric heating, a container (1) having an open upper surface is prepared, with a moisture permeable film body (8) disposed inside the container in such a manner that two outer surfaces (9) of the film body face two mutually opposing inner surfaces (4) of the container, and with a pair of electrodes (5) disposed in the gaps between these inner and outer surfaces. A food material (A), a suitable amount of an electrolyte and a suitable mount of water (B) are placed within the moisture permeable film body, and they are then cooked by being subjected to warming or heating by supplying electricity to the electrodes so that current flows therebetween.

Abstract: A water warming apparatus generates hot air bubbles by drawing and discharging a water in a water tank by a rotary body and plunging the water so drawn into the water together with a hot air introduced in a hot air chamber so as to cause direct heat exchange to be conducted and thereby make the water warm very quickly.

Abstract: A fuel gasifying burner comprising a combustion plate having peripheral and bottom combustion surfaces provided with a plurality of gasified fuel blowing openings. The combustion plate is arranged within a combustion cylinder to define therebetween peripheral and bottom gas chambers communicating with each other. A partition plate is arranged within the bottom gas chamber to divide the same into first and second chamber sections. The first chamber section has an inner peripheral open end communicating with an axial open end of a fuel gasifying member rotatably arranged within the combustion cylinder. The partition plate forms an annular flow branching channel at a location where the peripheral and bottom gas chambers communicate with each other. Gasified fuel-air mixture entering the first chamber section is divided into two mixture streams at the annular flow branching channel.

Abstract: A fuel gasifying burner comprising a gas chamber defined between a bottom wall of a combustion cylinder and a combustion plate formed with gasified fuel blowing openings. A plurality of ventilation pipes extend through the gas chamber for communicating an air blowing chamber with an annular air ejection passage defined between the gas chamber and a fuel gasifying member rotatably arranged within the combustion cylinder. First and second mixing promotion cylinders arranged between the ventilation pipes and the gasified fuel blowing openings are spaced from each other to define therebetween a narrow and bent passage through which gasified fuel-air mixture from the fuel gasifying member flows into the gas chamber. A flat gas inflow chamber having a radially outward peripheral closed end is defined between the first mixing promotion cylinder and the bottom wall of the combustion cylinder.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for producing processed foodstuffs by passing an electric current to foodstuff materials including a container of insulating material open at opposite sides for receiving a foodstuff material suitably permeated with a salt solution which is placed in the container and held between a pair of electrode members located at the opposite open sides of the container. An annular coil is arranged around the container. As electric currents are passed simultaneously through the annular coil and between the pair of electrode members, Joule heat is generated in the foodstuff material to thermally treat and sterilize the foodstuff material while lines of magnetic force are produced and applied to the foodstuff material in such a manner that an AC magnetic field exerts influences on the electric current flowing through the foodstuff material, to render substantially uniform the temperature distribution in the foodstuff material and increase the amount of inosinic acid or glutamic acid therein.

Abstract: A fuel gasifying burner including a combustion device located below a portion of a gas generating member housing a fuel supply device for directing a supply of liquid fuel into the interior of the gas generating member. A plurality of combustion members formed with flame apertures at their surfaces are arranged on either side of the gas generating member substantially in the same horizontal plane or in a plane below that of the gas generating member and maintained in communication with the gas generating member. The combustion members may be one in number and annular in form and located below the gas generating member or of a torus shape to allow the gas generating member to extend through its center opening.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for producing a processed foodstuff by passing a current to a raw food material wherein the raw food material placed in an insulating container open on upper and lower sides is held between an upper electrode member and a lower electrode member serving concurrently as a juice receiver located on opposite sides of the raw food material through respective salt water containing contact members which are resiliently connected together by resilient connection means in an insulated condition. A current is passed between the upper and lower electrode members through a plug having a probe to heat the raw food material to a predetermined temperature to sterilize it. Juices given off by the raw food material collect in a juice trap. The insulating container containing the raw food material may be placed on a worktable in the front thereof and moved to the rear of the worktable.

Abstract: A fuel gasifying burner including a combustion cylinder, a rotary shaft extending into the combustion cylinder through its open base, a frustoconical rotary gasifying member connected to the rotary shaft and formed at a lower end of its wall with a bent portion extending outwardly and having at its peripheral end a liquid fuel scattering end, and an inner gasifying member located inside the rotary gasifying member to form a unit therewith and having connected to a lower end of its wall a fuel air-mixture gas diffusing wall extending outwardly a greater distance than the bent portion of the rotary gasifying member. The inner gasifying member is formed at its forward end with an air supply opening communicated through an air passage with an air blowing chamber. An annular flame ejecting upright wall is formed contiguous with a fuel-air mixture gas diffusing wall and provided at its end with a liquid fuel rescattering portion.

Abstract: A liquid fuel gasifying burner including an inner gasifying member connected to a rotary gasifying member of the frustoconical shape so that the two members can rotate as a unit. The inner gasifying member is formed with an air port in the central portion of its upper end and open at its lower end, and the rotary gasifying member is closed at its upper end and open at its base and rotatably mounted in a combustion cylinder open at its upper end and formed with an air blowing chamber in the central portion of its bottom. A fuel-air mixture passage is defined between the outer circumferential surface of the inner gasifying member and the inner circumferential surface of the rotary gasifying member, and a liquid fuel spreading surface having a liquid fuel scattering portion at its outer periphery is formed on the upper end of the inner gasifying member. A liquid fuel feed line opens at its forward end close to the liquid fuel spreading surface.

Abstract: A liquid fuel burner for burning liquid fuel in gasified form including a cylindrical main body having a flame blowoff nozzle and an inner bottom wall at opposite ends, a gas chamber, a combustion plate formed with a multitude of gasified fuel blowing openings, a fuel gasifying member, a fuel diffusing member, an air supply duct, a fuel supply line, an air ejection chamber and a rotary shaft supporting the fuel gasifying member and fuel diffusing member for rotation within the cylindrical main body. An annular wall is secured to and extends inwardly from the inner wall surface of the combustion plate in a position nearer to the inner bottom wall than the gasified fuel blowing openings, and a liquefied fuel flow preventing plate is secured at one end to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical main body in a position near to the flame blowoff nozzle and free at the other end to define a liquefied fuel sump between the inner wall surface of the main body and the liquefied fuel flow preventing plate.

Abstract: A salt-containing unprocessed foodstuff is charged in a wrapping tube unit comprising a cylindrical body, end plate means comprising members bonded to open opposite ends of the cylindrical body, and a pair of electrical contact members previously impregnated with a salt solution and fitted in the end plate means to provide a wrapped material foodstuff. The end plate means may be of any shape and is formed with a multitude of apertures, at least one of the members having cuts made therein to permit charging of the unprocessed foodstuff in the cylindrical body which may be deformed to conform to the shape of the end plate means.

Abstract: A gasified liquid fuel burner having a combustion chamber in the form of a cylinder closed at the bottom, a hollow fuel gasifying member of a substantially conical shape located in the combustion chamber for rotation and having an open end formed therein with an obliquely outwardly turned portion, an air blast supply duct inserted in the fuel gasifying member, a fuel supply line for supplying a liquid fuel to the inner surface of the fuel gasifying member, a gas chamber formed in the combustion chamber in a manner to be juxtaposed against the open end of the fuel gasifying member to define a gasified fuel-air mixture ejection opening between the gas chamber and the obliquely outwardly turned portion of the fuel gasifying member, and a cylindrical gasified fuel-air mixing member provided in the gas chamber and spaced apart a small distance from the open end of the fuel gasifying member.

Abstract: A salt-containing unprocessed foodstuff is charged in a wrapping tube unit comprising a cylindrical body, end plate means comprising members bonded to open opposite ends of the cylindrical body, and a pair of electrical contact members previously impregnated with a salt solution and fitted in the end plate means to provide a wrapped material foodstuff. The end plate means may be of any shape and is formed with a multitude of apertures, at least one of the members having cuts made therein to permit charging of the unprocessed foodstuff in the cylindrical body which may be deformed to conform to the shape of the end plate means.

Abstract: A burner wherein a fuel gasifying member is rotatably mounted in a main body of the burner made of a thin metallic material and receiving an air supply duct inserted through one side, a gasified fuel-air mixing plate for scattering the liquid fuel in atomized particles into said main body is integrally mounted on said fuel gasifying member and a gas wall plate connected at one end to the air supply duct is provided, a swirlingly flowing air film of air blast in the main body of the burner is forcedly circulated to cool said main body from said air supply duct through an air supply opening and along the inner wall surface of said main body, an air shielding wall for preventing the stream of air blast from directly impinging on said main body is disposed in said main body, a combustion plate provided therein with a multitude of gasified fuel blowing openings is disposed in said main body so as to define an annular gasified fuel blowing passageway, an ignition facilitating device is disposed inside of said combu

Abstract: A burner wherein a fuel gasifying member is non-rotatably mounted in a main body of the burner and maintained in communication with a gas chamber formed in an outer marginal portion of the main body of the burner, and liquid fuel scattering means is rotatably mounted at an open end portion of the fuel gasifying member for scattering a liquid fuel in minuscule particles into the interior of the fuel gasifying member and the main body of the burner through a scattering gap. The liquid fuel thus scattered in the main body is ignited and burns to heat the fuel gasifying member in which the fuel supplied by the liquid fuel scattering means under the influence of an air blast supplied under pressure through an air supply duct is quickly gasified and forms a mixture of gasified fuel and air which is ejected through the gas chamber to sustain combustion of the liquid fuel in gasified form. A cooling chamber may be provided adjacent an inner wall plate of the main body of the burner.

Abstract: In a liquid fuel burner wherein a fuel gasifying member is directly supported by a rotary shaft inserted in a main body of the burner for converting liquid fuel into gasified form, a water evaporation chamber of the annular shape is arranged at the corner of a top portion of the fuel gasifying member and filled therein with a water evaporation promoting material. Water is supplied to the water evaporation chamber and quickly converted into water vapor which is ejected into the fuel gasifying member through steam ejection apertures formed in the water evaporation chamber as the fuel gasifying member is rotated and performs the liquid fuel gasifying function, and the gasified fuel and water vapor form a mixture with air supplied under pressure, the mixture being ejected into the main body of the burner to sustain combustion of liquid fuel in gasified form, so that the consumption of thermal energy can be reduced by using water as part of the liquid fuel.

Abstract: A burner wherein a fuel gasifying member is non-rotatably mounted and disposed in spaced juxtaposed relationship to a gas accumulation chamber formed in a main body of the burner receiving an air supply duct inserted through one side, and liquid fuel scattering means is rotatably mounted at an open end portion of the fuel gasifying member for scattering a liquid fuel in minuscule particles into the interior of the fuel gasifying member and the main body of the burner through a scattering gap. A skirt formed therein with gas ejection slits is mounted at the periphery of the liquid fuel scattering means and has a lower half portion received in the gas accumulation chamber to define a forwardly directed annular gas ejection passageway between the skirt and gas accumulation chamber. A cylindrical air guide may be mounted within the fuel gasifying member and maintained in communication with the air supply duct.

Abstract: A handle comprising a main body, a mounting seat formed integrally with the main body and disposed on the top thereof, and an adhesive tape coated with a bonding agent on both the upper surface and the underside. The mounting seat is soft and has a concave surface, so that the handle can be readily and positively affixed to the outer periphery of an existing doorknob by forcing the mounting seat thereagainst and clamping the same thereto after the adhesive tape is adhesively attached to the concave surface the mounting seat. The main body is flat in shape and has a rear edge which is inclined such that the main body is spaced apart a greater distance from the door in going downwardly from the top. A protuberance may be formed at the lowermost end of the inclined rear edge of the main body to form a finger holder.