Abstract: An electric cooking appliance, such as a fryer, having a receptacle provided to receive a cooking liquid, the receptacle being disposed at least partially in a casing having a lateral wall, and an electric connector mounted in an opening of the lateral wall of the casing, the electric connector being provided to cooperate with a mating electric connector connected at the end of a power supply cord. The lateral wall of the casing has an outer rim disposed above the opening, creating a conduit, or trough, that is arranged to keep any liquid that is flowing along the lateral wall of the casing at a distance from the electric connector mounted in the casing.

Abstract: A cooking element for a steamer, composed of: a tubular side wall; a removable perforated bottom, the tubular side wall having an interior surface provided with a shoulder on which the perforated bottom rests; a first element carried by the interior surface of the tubular side wall; and a second element carried by, and located beneath, the perforated bottom. The first element is located to block the second element when the perforated bottom rests on the shoulder, one of the elements is a tongue, and the other of the elements is an abutment. A cooking element for a steamer, composed of a tubular side wall, a removable perforated bottom and a removable handle, wherein the perforated bottom has orifices adapted for rapid connection of the removable handle.

Abstract: Vacuum cleaner nozzle having a triangular base member (4) provided with a rim having two lateral sides (18) and a rear side (21), the two lateral sides forming an angle with one another and meeting at a corner region (6) that faces in the direction in which the nozzle is pushed during vacuuming. The corner region (6) has at least one front suction opening (7) to assure a suction in a direction substantially parallel to the surface to be cleaned.

Abstract: A pressure cooking apparatus has a locking device for locking the lid of the apparatus relative to the pan of the apparatus. The lid includes lid ramps for engaging pan ramps on the pan. The locking device is mounted to move along the wall of the pan in an inter-ramp zone so that the locking device has a locking position flush against a lateral edge of a pan ramp.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cooking accessory (1) for a domestic or household electrical cooking appliance, designed to be used in a cooking vessel, comprising a operation element (2) and a work tool (8) mounted on the operation element (2). The invention is characterized in that the work tool consists of flexible wires (3) defining a cage capable of being deformed against a wall of the cooking vessel to match the shape of said wall. The flexible wires (3) are mounted in a crossed manner between the operation element (2) and a holding element (9). The invention also concerns a domestic or electrical household appliance comprising such an accessory.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cooking utensil comprising a bowl and a removable grip handle. The bowl comprises over at least part of its periphery a rim projecting outwards from the bowl side wall, at least an orifice for receiving the handle passing through the rim wall, while the handle end comprises an upper part limited by a stop and designed to be inserted from above the orifice up to the stop and a lower part designed to extend beneath the rim. The invention is particularly applicable to cake tins.

Abstract: A heating element for a soleplate of an iron, composed of: a substrate constituted by a plate containing aluminum; an insulator covering one surface of the plate; and a heating circuit carried by the insulator, wherein the insulator includes an anodized oxide layer having a thickness between 10 and 200 microns and resistant to abrupt temperature variations of the plate.

Abstract: A non-stick coating with improved scratch resistance comprises an undercoat applied to a substrate, coated with a primary coat comprising a fluorocarbon resin and one or more fluorocarbon resin-based outer coats, characterized in that the undercoat is exclusively constituted by the polymer oxy-1,4-phenylene-oxy-1,4-phenylene-carbonyl-1,4-phenylene, known as PEEK.

Abstract: A toaster having a base and at least two substantially vertical heating elements defining a cooking space that is open at least at the upper part of the toaster, the heating elements being in the form of transparent glass walls composed of a glass substrate covered, on one of its faces, with a layer of metal oxide or oxides, the layer being connected to an electric supply circuit for supplying heating current. At least two of the glass walls have an upper rim, or lip, the rim or lip being made of a transparent material.

Abstract: Electrical household appliance for culinary preparation, of the food processor type having a body forming a base to receive a working receptacle in which can be disposed a rotatable working element driven by a motor disposed in the body, a lid to close the working receptacle, and a mechanism for locking the lid on the working receptacle. The mechanism has jaws movably mounted on the body between a locking position in which they engage the lid to block it vertically and an unlocking position in which the lid can be withdrawn, these jaws being movable against at least one restoring member toward one of the two positions. The appliance further has an unlocking mechanism movably mounted on the body between a rest position in which the jaws are able to lock the lid on the receptacle, and an active position in which the jaws are brought into their unlocking position.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for separating and collecting trash for a trash collecting apparatus such as a vacuum cleaner, said device comprising a first tube with an air intake (13) capable of receiving the air sucked in and an air delivery outlet, a screw (11) substantially axially positioned in said first tube (8a), a second tube (9) with a diameter smaller than the screw external diameter and coaxially located in the first tube (8a) extension, in ventilating communication though one end to the first tube (8a) delivery end and connected by its other end to the suction unit by a first discharge conduit (14). The invention is characterised in that said device comprises a third tube (8b) arranged around the second tube (9) and connected to the first tube (8a) delivery end so as to provide between the second and third tubes (9, 8b) a second conduit for discharging the trash towards a filter and/or a container (10) in a secondary output flow.

Abstract: Household appliance, in contact with an aqueous medium, having a water circuit at least partially traversing a compartment containing a disincrustant agent. The disincrustant agent is obtained by cross-linking or hardening of an organosilicic system having a disincrustant action.

Abstract: The invention concerns a massage and skin suction apparatus comprising a housing whereof part (1a) of the wall is shaped to be used as a prehensile element and whereof the other part comprises at least a pair of parallel massaging rollers (6, 7) spaced from each other, each roller being mounted pivoting about its axis of revolution, said rollers (6, 7) being associated with means for driving them in rotation when they are in contact with the skin tissue, to exert thereon two opposed forces for pulling a portion of said tissue in the space separating them, in order to pinch it and a chamber connected to a suction source and provided with a suction aperture (4a), said suction aperture (4a) and said pair of massaging rollers (6, 7) being arranged on said housing for placing them simultaneously in contact with a portion of the skin tissue. The invention is characterised in that the edge of said suction aperture (4a) extends laterally at the peripheral surface of one (7) of said rollers (6, 7).

Abstract: A multilayer non-stick coating of improved hardness for aluminum articles includes an alumina-based hard first layer obtained by anodic oxidation of the aluminum article immersed in an alkaline solution. Micro-arcs are applied to the article by means of a high current and a high potential difference. A second polytetrafluoroethylene-based layer constitutes a primer for one or more polytetrafluoroethylene-based finish layers.

Abstract: A safety and/or control device for an electric cooking appliance, the appliance having a case defining a cooking enclosure and a component for heating the enclosure. The device includes: at least one switch arranged to close a circuit for supplying current to the heating component, this switch including a case and an actuating button, at least one sensing element which is movable between a safe position, corresponding to a predetermined configuration for placing the appliance into operation, and an unsafe position, corresponding to another configuration in which the appliance should not be placed into operation, and, optionally, a control unit accessible from outside the case and movable between an on position and an off position. The switch can be operated to close the current supply circuit in response to the sensing element and the control unit, or in response to two sensing elements, when the element and the control unit or both sensing elements are each in a defined position.

Abstract: An electric steam pressing iron having a hot part composed of a sole plate (1) and an evaporation chamber (2), the hot part of the iron being divided into two thermal zones, a first zone corresponding substantially to the evaporation chamber (2) being provided with a first heating element (3), a second zone corresponding substantially to a portion of the sole plate (1) disposed under the evaporation chamber (2) being provided with a second heating element (4), the first heating means (3) being associated with a regulation device disposed in the first zone, the first heating element being provided to partially assure the heating of the second zone, characterized in that the second heating element (4) is associated with the regulation device (5) of the first zone.

Abstract: A device for connecting a dust bag, the device having a mounting flange (1) and a ring (21) capable of being fixed, matching, one to a vacuum cleaner frame or to a removable vacuum cleaner support or to a linerboard, and the other to the dust bag via one of their two faces, the flange (1) and ring (21) being provided with additional matching elements for being mutually maintained by their free face, and with at least a visual mark (4,24) to facilitate their connection. The invention is characterized in that the diameter of the device is twice as much as the length of the assembled device, when the ring (21) and the flange (1) are arranged one on the other. Advantageously, the flange (1) and the ring (32) have a non-planar surface at their free face, resulting from the difference in height of the two parts, for guiding one of the parts onto the other when they are being connected.