Abstract: An electric cut-off device for a toaster is disclosed including a housing, a timer for setting a toasting time, the timer including a core and an armature attracted by the core upon its actuation, a slidable support mounted for slidable movement within the housing, a button for controlling the movement of the slidable support, a carrier carried by the slidable support for carrying the toast, a heater for heating the toast, a switch for actuating the heater, the switch juxtaposed with the armature whereby the switch is actuated when the armature is adjacent to the core and the heater, the core and the timer are deactivated after expiration of the toasting time, and the slidable support is released.

Abstract: A toaster is disclosed including a main frame with a toasting compartment including an electrical resistance heater, a carriage mounted for reciprocation within the toasting compartment so that the bread product to be toasted can be loaded when the carriage is in an upper position and the bread product can be toasted when the carriage is in the lower position, an electromagnet for holding the carriage in the lower position, and a safety assembly for interrupting the supply of electricity to the electrical resistance heater at the end of a toasting cycle independent of the position of the carriage with the subassembly and including a lock to lock the carriage in the lower position, an armature for carrying the lock mounted adjacent to the electromagnet, and a resilient contact to establish electrical contact with the electrical resistance heater when the assembly is in the active position.

Abstract: Heating part of a steamer, composed of a base structure (1), a heating body (2), a main water reservoir (4) communicating with the heating body (2) and enclosing an air volume, a lid (10) closing the reservoir (4), a filling orifice (8) opening on an exterior wall of at least one of the base (1) and the lid (10), a wall (5) closing at least one part of the air volume enclosed by the water reservoir (4) and disposed between the heating body (2) and of the filling orifice (8), the lid (10) having at least one opening (14) provided for the passage of steam toward a cooking receptacle disposed above the lid.

Abstract: Electrical cooking appliance, notably a fryer, having a case (1) forming a housing (2) provided to receive a removable bowl (3), the bowl having lateral walls (4) and a base (5) under which is fixed a shielded heating element (6) having two extremities (7) each terminated by a connection terminal (8). An electric connector (10) is mounted in the case (1), the connector having electrical contacts (12) disposed opposite openings (11) provided to receive the terminals (8) of the shielded heating element (6), during introduction of the bowl (3) into the housing (2). The connector (10) is mounted to be movable in lateral translation relative to the base of the case (1) and the openings (11) have bevel edges (13) provided to guide the terminals (8) of the heating element (6) toward the electrical contacts (12).

Abstract: A control device for an electrical cooking appliance having a case, a bowl and a heating element associated with the bowl.

Abstract: Ice bucket for bottles or carafes, particularly champagne buckets, includes a bucket wall, a housing having an interior region which is attached to an area of the bucket wall, and an essentially flat bucket attached to the housing so as to cover the interior region thereof. The housing itself preferably includes an installation interface that is distinct from, but installed against, the bucket wall. The bucket marker may thus be attached to the housing in order to cover flaws resulting from the installation of the installation interface against the bucket wall.

Abstract: A device for measuring the composition of the body of a person includes a first electronic module which measures a bioelectrical impedance and including at least one current source which delivers a variable electrical signal that passes through the body of the person when the person is connected to the measuring device. The electrical signal is a squarewave the duration of which is variable to determine the global impedance, the intracellular impedance and the extracellular impedance of the body of the person directly.

Abstract: A temperature sensor integrated into the bottom of a cooking utensil and the electrical conductors connecting the sensor to an electronic circuit extend between the wall that constitutes the bottom of the utensil and a perforated plate fixed to that wall by cold pressing.

Abstract: Appliance for grilling a flat slice of food, the appliance being composed of a housing with a slot permitting access to a parallelepiped grilling chamber in the opposite main faces of which are respectively arranged facing each other two heating subassemblies. At least one of the subassemblies having a substantially homogeneous radiation plate heated by heating elements. The radiation face of this plate may be completed by elements which maintain a predetermined spacing of less than 1 centimeter with the slice, this face or this slice being in contact with these spacing elements along surfaces less than 1 millimeter wide. At least one of the subassemblies may be mounted to be relatively displaceable farther and closer with respect to the other in order to be applied to one side and the other of the slice with a predetermined pressure. The plates may be of a material and have dimensions such that they constitute heat storage plates for heating by convection or by radiation at a short distance.

Abstract: A lid with a holding knob and coupling elements designed to secure the holding knob to the lid. The coupling elements comprise at least one lug and a notch having an entry portion for the lug to pass through the notch, as well as a retaining portion for retaining the lug in the slot. The lug is mobile between the entry portion and the retaining portion, when the knob and lid are moved relative to one another.

Abstract: Electrical household appliance for culinary preparation of the multi-function food processor type composed of a container (1) with a bottom (16) and an opposed opening (19), as well as a rotatable working assembly (2) driven by a motor connected to the working assembly by a driving shaft (4) and on which is mounted a working implement (5) disposed substantially in proximity to the bottom of the container, the implement defining a working zone (3). The container (1) has at least one rib (6) extending along a wall (15) of the container in the working zone (3), the rotatable working assembly (2) is removable with respect to the container (1), and the rotatable working assembly (2) includes a pedestal (7) movable in rotation around the axis A-A′ of the working assembly (2), which comes to bear on a relief (8) formed on the bottom of the container (1).

Abstract: A steam iron soleplate divided into at least one steaming area having a plurality of steam outlets and at least one drying area having one or more grooves but free of steam outlets. The grooves are arranged in a network of furrows defining a pattern of raised lands.

Abstract: An electric cooking appliance composed of: a frame having at least one top or bottom wall and at least one lateral wall, the walls defining a cooking enclosure; and at least one tubular heating element arranged in the cooking enclosure, in the vicinity of at least one the top or bottom walls, the heating element being movable, by rotation, between a horizontal working position and a disengagement position with respect to the working position, wherein the heating element has two end parts whose free ends are connected by connectors to a current supply circuit for the heating element, the end parts extending out of the cooking enclosure through an opening or openings provided in one of the lateral walls, and at least one of the end parts has at least one locally enlarged portion which either: is able to cooperate with a fastener at least partially surrounding the heating element and forming an extremity of a restoring means for urging the heating element toward, and maintain said heating element in, the working

Abstract: A hair-removing device composed of a hair-removal roller driven in rotation by a motor around an axis of rotation arranged behind a housing window, a control mechanism for successively leading tweezing blades to close against one another in order to tweeze hairs to be plucked and then to separate from one another and a pain-soothing device composed of elements mounted on the roller. The elements are mounted in a fixed position on the roller and each element has at least one protuberance extending beyond a virtual cylinder coaxial with said roller and in which are inscribed said tweezing edges of said tweezing blades, and each protuberance has an outer end that is inclined or rounded along a plane that is transverse to the axis of rotation of the roller and that passes through the element from which the protuberance extends.

Abstract: An electric cooking appliance having a housing receiving a removable bowl, a heating element in thermal contact with the bowl when the bowl is seated in the housing, a heat adjuster, an ultimate safety switch to act in case of failure of the heat adjuster, and a thermal limit switch mounted in the housing. The thermal limit switch is set to be triggered before the ultimate safety switch if the bowl in not seated in the housing.

Abstract: A steam pressing iron having a sole plate 11 provided with steam outlet holes 12 communicating with an evaporation chamber 14, the sole plate 11 and the evaporation chamber 14 being in thermal communication with a heating device, the evaporation chamber 14 communicating with a reservoir 15 via an orifice 16 capable of being blocked by a valve 17 disposed in a housing 52. The valve 17 includes a rod 5 capable of blocking the orifice 16, the rod having a shoulder 19 capable of resting on a support 3 that is fixed to a bellows 4 forming at least one part of a water tight conduit 31 between the reservoir 15 and the evaporation chamber 14, the support 3 being capable of being actuated by a bimetallic strip 1 mounted on a wall in thermal communication with the evaporation chamber 14.

Abstract: A safety device for an electric cooking appliance, the appliance having a case forming a housing provided to receive a removable bowl and a unit for heating the bowl. The safety device is composed of an element for sensing the presence of the bowl in the housing, the element being mounted to be movable against a restoring member between a first position which the element assumes when the bowl is present in the housing, and a second position which the element assumes when the bowl is not present in the housing or is not correctly positioned in the housing, the second position corresponding to a position to which the element is urged by the restoring member.

Abstract: A pressing iron reservoir composed of a lower half-shell having at least one annular conformation and an upper half-shell having at least one annular conformation provided to interengage in and/or above the corresponding annular conformation of the lower half-shell. At least one of the conformations is formed with a covering attached in an irreversible manner and serving as a seal.

Abstract: An electrical component having a small electrically isolating ceramic plate carrying on one of its faces a screened resistive and/or conductive pattern, the other face being in contact with a metal plate intended to be heated or the temperature of which is to be measured. The pattern has at least one metallized extremity to establish an electrical connection with a conductive wire. The conductive wire is soldered onto the metallized extremity and the small ceramic plate is entirely covered by a metal cover the peripheral edges of which surround the small plate and are fixed in a watertight manner to the metal plate by a resin. The lateral wall of the cover has at least one opening for the passage of the conductive wire or wires, the opening or openings being blocked by a sealing resin.