Abstract: This invention is a device that warms a horse bit while holding the bit assembly. The bit is placed on top of a cylindrical, or other shaped housing that captures the heat from an internal heat source. The housing is attached to a heat element base. The heating element that attaches to the base creates the internal heat source for the housing. The housing and base combined are secured to a vertical member or wall. All of the included parts are non-combustible under the standard of the art regulations.

Abstract: An on-demand electric water heater includes at least one heating chamber having an electric heating element operatively positioned between a cold water inlet and a hot water outlet. The heating elements are controlled by pressure sensing switches activated by water flow initiation or termination. A pressure relief valve is provided as a safety feature in the event the pressure sensing switches fail.

Abstract: A warming bowl for electrically heating lavage and irrigation liquid for use during medical-surgical procedures includes an electric heating device and an automatic thermostatic control to heat and maintain the liquid at a substantially constant temperature. The warming bowl is disposable after use and has an inner and an outer bowl sealed to one another so as to provide an internal sealed region therebetween for holding a battery to power the electric heating device. The inner bowl serves to hold irrigation liquid and supports therein a housing made of low-thermal-conductivity material that houses the electric heating device and the thermostatic control in spaced, substantially thermally isolated relation from one another. A metallic thermal shunt conductor is disposed along and in contact with a portion of the external periphery of the housing and extends over and across the space between the heating device and the thermostatic control.

Abstract: An apparatus including a housing, wherein the housing defines a top wall formed with a series of aligned bores therethrough, each of the bores receiving a rechargeable battery powered hair salon utensil such as, a hair dryer, large diameter hair curling iron, small diameter hair curling iron, electric razor, etc., therewithin. A recharging plug is provided within each bore for providing recharging of each utensil. Optionally, the organization includes replacement battery packs selectively mounted to each utensil to ensure continuous use of each utensil. Further, a mirror structure is mounted rearwardly of a forward wall of the housing and nested therewithin and selectively retracted therefrom, wherein the mirror is heated by proximity to the recharging cells of the organization minimizing fogging of the mirror in use.

Abstract: A PTC heater for securely positioning resistors is disclosed. The PTC heater has two insulating plates having a plurality of square or rectangular through holes, a conductive position plate having a plurality of square or rectangular through holes facing toward those in the insulating plates and a resistor cavity defined by four angular-shaped fixing chips fixed on each of the four inside faces for positioning a PTC resistor therein, and a conductive elastic plate having a plurality of square or rectangular through holes facing toward those in the insulating plates. The elastic plate has an elastic projection on each of the four inside faces of a through hole for pressing a lateral surface of a PTC resistor positioned in a through hole of the position plate after the elastic plate and the position plate have been sandwiched between the two insulating plates.

Abstract: A temperature controlled soldering iron includes an elongated heater assembly with a hollow soldering tip at one end, containing a heating element and a temperature sensing element, which is responsive to the temperature of the tip. The heater assembly includes an outer conductive sheath concentrically disposed around an inner conductive sheath, both of which are attached to a steel bushing. A constantan rod is disposed within the inner sheath and connected to the bushing to form a thermocouple junction therewith. The heating element is connected at one end to the bushing and at the other end to a tubular conductor disposed around and insulated from the constantan wire. A temperature controller surveys the temperature sensed at the thermocouple junction by connection to the constantan wire and the outer sheath. The voltage applied between the tubular conductor and the inner sheath is automatically varied to control the temperature of the heater assembly.

Abstract: A curling iron has an elongated heating tube and a clamp secured to an end of the tube which is attached to a handle. The heating tube has at least one generally flat surface having a longitudinal depression between 0.003 and 0.008 inch deep generally in the center of the surface. In one embodiment, the tube has relatively wide top and bottom surfaces which each have such a depression, and relatively narrow, sharply rounded side surfaces having a radius between about 0.03 and 0.1 inch. The clamp has a relatively short clamping surface which extends over a portion of the length of the heating tube. Hair strands which are wrapped around the tube are not curled over the flat surface or surfaces of the tube. The depressed portions of the heating tube do not contact the straight lengths of the hair directly, so that the straight lengths absorb less heat from the tube, and normal operating temperatures are more easily preserved in the heating tube.

Abstract: A hot air pulse generator, particularly for use as a hair dryer, includes a housing enclosing an electric heater and air blower for generating a continuous flow of heated air through a passageway leading to a nozzle. A gently curved baffle arranged across the passageway upstream of the nozzle cuts off 50-75% of the cross section of the passageway and converges the heated air as a high speed air stream toward one side of the passageway. A butterfly valve freely rotatable through 360.degree. on a spindle disposed at an acute angle is located between the baffle and nozzle in the path of the air stream and is continuously rotated by the air flow to effect an intermittent pulsed air output flow through the nozzle.

Abstract: A cordless electric iron assembly has an iron removably mounted on a power supply stand adapted to be connected to a power supply. Separable mating electric terminals interposed between the iron and stand establish an electrical connection between the electric heater in the iron and the stand so long as the iron is placed on the stand. A detector on the stand detects the presence or absence of the iron on the stand and is used to activate an adjustable counter in response to removal of the iron from the stand. The counter activates an audible alarm after the elapse of a predetermined time period during which the iron is removed from the stand and in use to signal that the iron should be returned to the stand for reheating. A carrying case is detachable from the stand and accommodates the iron positioned on the stand with the mating terminals connected for storage of the iron during non-use.

Abstract: A sheath heater includes a metal sheath, a coil-like heater, and a heat-resistant insulating powder. The starting form of the metal sheath has a small-diameter cylindrical portion at its distal end and is formed to have a substantially tubular shape as a whole. The heater is fabricated by inserting the coil-like heater in the sheath. The heat-resistant insulating powder is charged in the sheath and holds the coil-like heater in the sheath so that the coil-like heater is electrically insulated from the sheath. The distal end portion of the sheath is melted and so that the confronting end of the coil-like heater is buried so as not to be exposed on the outer wall of a closing portion at the distal end of the sheath. The melting of the sheath end can be done by using plasma, electron-beam or laser welding techniques.

Abstract: A soldering gun is provided including an elongated tubular body of quartz having first and second ends. The first end of the body is telescoped into an outwardly opening recess provided therefore in a soldering iron tip mounted from the first end and a second shorter and smaller diameter quartz tubular member is telescoped into the end of the larger diameter tubular member from which the tip is supported. A coil of 6 to 12 turns of Ni Chrome wire is disposed about the second quartz tubular member within the first quartz tubular member and the end of the coil adjacent the tip is reversely turned and directed back through the second quartz tubular member to a point adjacent the other end thereof.

Abstract: An electric hair curling apparatus includes a housing having a transparent lid covering a base member mounting a plurality of variously sized heating posts, each arranged to mount and heat a respectively sized curler. A manually settable digital timing mechanism is provided to permit the curlers to be automatically heated at a predetermined time and for a predetermined period selected by the user. A main fiber optic cable associated with and extending from an on-off indicator light associated with the timer enhances visibility of the front panel of the housing during limited light conditions and communicates with other fiber optic cables providing visible framing of the side walls and top panel of the lid. A battery pack in the housing energizes the heating posts.

Abstract: A cordless iron includes a stand and an iron body placeable on and detachable from the stand. The iron body has a sole plate. The sole plate of the iron body is heated when the iron body is placed on the stand. An electrically powered temperature sensor senses the temperature of the sole plate of the iron body and outputs a signal representative of that sensed temperature. An alarm device responsive to the signal outputted from the temperature sensor serves to indicate that the sensed temperature drops to or below a reference temperature. The temperature sensor is kept activated when the iron body is detached from the stand.

Abstract: A fluid heater utilizing a porous ceramic, for example silicon carbide, electrically conductive body as an electrically energized heating element to heat a fluid passing through the pores thereof is provided. A plurality of interconnected annular fluid flow passageways are positioned in the fluid heater so that fluid exiting therefrom surrounds the porous body, further improving the efficiency of the porous fluid heater body. An electrical disc rear contactor is positioned within one end of the cylindrical sleeve to peripherally engage the sleeve and axially electrically engage the body. An electrically conductive disc front contactor is positioned concentrically at an opposite end of the sleeve to peripherally engage the housing in electrical contact relationship and axially engage the body in electrical contact relationship.

Abstract: Electric iron having a cast sole (1A) closed by a cover (2) and in which are provided two chambers (6, 7) separated from each other by a partition (8), namely, a principal vaporization chamber (6) fed with water by an injection device through an opening (9) provided in the cover (2), the water being vaporized by a sheathed resistance (10) embedded in the sole (1A), and a steam distribution chamber (7) communicating on the one hand with the principal vaporization chamber (6) by a passage (11) provided in the partition (8), and on the other hand with the exterior through outlet orifices (12) provided in the sole (1A). The sole (1A) also comprises an intermediate vaporization chamber (15) disposed between the principal vaporization chamber (6) and the distribution chamber (7) and extending adjacent the injection opening (9) of the water.

Abstract: A heater assembly for heating a container of corrosive fluid includes a housing adapted to be located in a container of fluid to be heated, a sealed chamber located in the housing, a heater located in the chamber, an electrically conductive sleeve assembly secured to the housing, and a flexible conduit extending from the sleeve assembly and providing a passageway for conductors providing a source of power to the heater assembly. The flexible conduit includes an electrical conductor connected to ground which is located in the sleeve assembly and the sleeve assembly is swaged to compress the sleeve assembly into the electrical conductor to ground to the electrically conductive housing via the sleeve assembly.

Abstract: An electrically heated branding device for marking articles has an elongated type block with a base end removably secured in a cavity of a holder and a branding indicia on a forward end face which projects from the holder. The type block includes a metallic heat receiving portion having an elongated cavity open at the base end of the type block and in which as fitted a heat generating portion in the form of a ceramic rod. An electric resistance heat generating member having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance is embedded in the forward end portion of the rod and extends transversely of the longitudinal axis thereof for heating the indicia. Lead wires from heat generating member are connected to electrodes removably received in a socket in the cavity.

Abstract: The device for cutting textile material and sealing the edges of the cut material comprises a heated resistance wire of round cross section supported in a supporting means. The wire forms a flattened central portion shaped to form a semi-circular bow having a symmetrical shape with a curved outer edge ground to a feather cutting edge, an inner edge and two lateral flat faces parallel to each other along which the edges of the textile material are moved after being cut by combined mechanical and thermal action of the wire. The edges of the textile material are sealed thereby. Since the temperature of the wire can be kept relatively low, no ridges of melted material are formed along the edges of the textile material.

Abstract: A device for sealing folders, parcels, and the like. The device comprises a handle which carries at its free end a metal plate containing an image to be printed, a thermoelectric element for heating the plate, and a heat accumulator for maintaining the temperature of the plate. An adhesive thermolabile tape comprises a semi-transparent film of cellulose acetate carrying on one of its faces a layer of colored adhesive material. The film is "scorched" by the action of the seal so as to display in an indelible way, the image of the latter.

Abstract: A method for drying the cavity in a shatter crack of a multi-layer laminated safety glass prior to repair of the crack utilizes a hand-held radiant heating device. The device includes a housing made of a metallic heat dissipating material and which carries an electrically energized radiant heating coil sized to approximate the diameter of the shatter crack cavity. The housing is affixed to a handle provided with a switch for controlling energization of the coil. In use the device is manually positioned in spaced proximate relationship to the cavity on the same side of the glass as the cavity and the switch is activated to energize the radiant heating coil for a period sufficient to remove water or other liquid resident in the shatter crack cavity.