Patents Examined by Tersa Walberg
  • Patent number: 5968396
    Abstract: A compact, portable warmer which is insertable into a bottle for the purpose of warming and stirring contents of the bottle. The warmer has a projecting heating element having a stainless steel sheath configured similarly to a paddle, and a cap for protecting the heating element from contamination and for protecting external objects from heat from the heating element. The portable warmer includes a battery for powering the heating element, an on-off switch, and an electrical cable for recharging the battery from a socket of a cigarette lighter of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventor: Nancy Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 5876197
    Abstract: In order to create a regenerative, energy-saving fuel firing for an industrial furnace, particularly for a metal smelting furnace, that can flexibly take all possible time and space operating conditions and demands of the furnace to be heated as well as the thermic conditions of the respectively employed, heat-storing regenerators exactly into consideration, it is inventively proposed that at least two regenerator/burner modules (3) are switchable from burner mode (7) into regenerator mode (7r) (exhaust gas extraction mode) or, respectively, vice versa independently of one another proceeding from the process controller of the industrial furnace (1), namely with employment of reverse valves (11) or reversible ventilators or, respectively, two-stream ventilators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignees: Gautschi Electro-fours S.A., BFI Betriebsforschungsinstitut, VDEh-Institut fur angewandte Forschung GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Engelberg, Martin Wicker, Gerhard Villinger, Wolfgang Bender