Abstract: A motion converter for small appliances driven by electric motors, such as electric toothbrushes, electric razors or the like, comprising a motor, tool bit and tool bit carrier, which is driven by the rotary motion of the motor and imparts a preferably orbital motion to the tool bit. The latter is accomplished by a novel mechanism for converting the rotary motion of the motor shaft into a generally transverse reciprocating motion. The mechanism employs a follower having a guide slot with parallel side faces and conically extending, radial outer contoured surfaces. The follower comprises a bore for the motor shaft or for a cam on the motor shaft and is slidingly mounted thereon.

Abstract: A process for closing an evaporation chamber of an electrically heated steam iron having a sole member, an evaporation chamber fixedly connected to the sole member and closable by a lid, said evaporation chamber having a vertical steam chamber wall with a top surface on which rivets with a substantially frustoconical rivet base are cast, and the lid having rivet holes associated with each rivet, the cross-section of each rivet hole being equal to or greater than the cross-section of the base of the rivet associated with the rivet hole, the process including the steps of: placing the lid on the top surface of the steam chamber wall, subjecting a rivet-hole edge portion of each rivet hole to pressure of a ring stamp, increasing the pressure of the ring stamp until the flow limit of the lid material is exceeded, this flow limit being lower than that of the material of the sole member, releasing the ring stamp after permanent deformation of the rivet-hole edge portion, clinching the rivet, and deforming the free

Abstract: An electrically heatable toaster includes at least one bread holder which is held in toasting position by an electromagnet. The electromagnet has a tripping device which is actuated manually as well as electrically by a timing control. The timing control includes a clock pulse actuated counting circuit connected to a frequency-determining charging capacitor and a voltage divider. The voltage divider includes a temperature-dependent resistor for compensating the influence of the toasting degree temperature and for triggering the electromagnet tripping device after a preset degree of toasting is reached. An oscillator with two complementary transistors combined in a programmable unijunction transistor circuit operates the counting circuit. The transistors are connected on the input side to a charging current circuit of the frequency determining capacitor and on the output side through a dividing point of the voltage divider with the temperature-dependent resistance to a clock input of the counting circuit.