Patents Assigned to Toshiba Electric Appliances
  • Patent number: 4846643
    Abstract: A cotton candy making apparatus includes a hollow rotary member to be rotated, the rotary member being provided with a supply port for supplying sugar to the interior thereof and path for delivering molten sugar to a peripheral edge of the rotary member, a heating device located below the rotary member to heat the rotary member and hence heat and melt sugar in the rotary member, a fan for producing an air flow to the rotary member, the fan being rotated together with the rotary member, and a deflection device arranged between the fan and the heating device to guide the air flow from the fan to the peripheral edge of the rotary member. The rotary member has an extended flange extending radially outward from the peripheral edge of the rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignees: Toshiba Electric Appliances, Robeson Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Isao Yamamoto, Akio Iida, Kaoru Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4731001
    Abstract: A cotton candy making apparatus includes a hollow rotary member to be rotated, the rotary member being provided with a supply port for supplying sugar to the interior thereof and path for delivering molten sugar to a peripheral edge of the rotary member, a heating device located below the rotary member to heat the rotary member and hence heat and melt sugar in the rotary member, a fan for producing an air flow to the rotary member, the fan being rotated together with the rotary member, and a deflection device arranged between the fan and the heating device to guide the air flow from the fan to the peripheral edge of the rotary member. The rotary member has an extended flange extending radially outward from the peripheral edge of the rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Assignees: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd., Robeson Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Isao Yamamoto, Akio Iida, Kaoru Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4575615
    Abstract: A hot water supplying device is provided with a hot water supplying tank which includes first and second tank chambers. Warm water of about 85.degree. C. is stored in the first tank chamber and hot water, which is higher in temperature than the warm water in the first tank chamber, is stored in the second tank chamber. The warm water in the first tank chamber is supplied to a coffee liquid making or percolating means by a pressure pump through a guide pipe. The guide pipe is introduced, on the way, into the hot water in the second tank chamber, whereby the warm water pressure fed from the first tank chamber through the guide pipe can be further heated by the heat of the hot water in the second tank chamber, and supplied to the coffee liquid making or percolating means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Shigenobu, Takao Nakabayashi, Kitio Akiyama, Masao Miida, Hisashi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 4520864
    Abstract: A compact, self-contained cooling-heating-humidifying-filtering apparatus has an endless band of water-absorbent, air-permeable material traveling in partial immersion in water contained in a receptacle within a conditioner housing. A fan produces a continuous airstream from an air inlet to an air outlet, both defined in the housing, through the endless band. A damper is provided in order to divide the air outlet into a cool air outlet and a warm air outlet. The damper is operated by a hand lever so as to selectively communicate the cool and warm air outlets with the air inlet. An electric heater is disposed at the warm air outlet or, preferably, on one of the opposite surfaces of the damper for heating the air flowing through the warm air outlet. This location of the heater serves to assure noiseless cooling operation and to permit the heater to heat effectively, despite its limited capacity, the air flowing through the warm air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Katagiri, Hidenobu Matsubara, Akio Iida
  • Patent number: 4506596
    Abstract: A beverage brewing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a brewing cylinder. A pressurizing piston is slidably fitted in the brewing cylinder. The pressurizing piston, in conjunction with a coffee filter tape, defines a brewing chamber inside the brewing cylinder. The pressurizing piston compresses coffee powder fed into the brewing chamber. When the powder is pressurized by the pressurizing piston in the brewing chamber, extremely hot pressurized hot water is poured into the brewing chamber by a hot-water supply mechanism. As a result, a coffee solution percolated in the brewing chamber runs out therefrom through the filter tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Shigenobu, Takao Nakabayashi, Kitio Akiyama, Masao Miida, Hisashi Karasawa
  • Patent number: D280508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Nasui, Toshio Tanaka
  • Patent number: D299525
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Nasui, Kazuyoshi Irisawa
  • Patent number: D299526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Toshiba Electric Appliances Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadao Nasui, Takeo Yajima
  • Patent number: D306389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignees: Robeson Industries Corporation, Toshiba Electric Appliances
    Inventors: Sadao Nasui, Shoei Wakishima