Abstract: A waste disposal apparatus includes an electric motor to reciprocally pivot a pivoting cutter that is pivotally disposed adjacent a stationary cutter. Each cutter having a plurality of spaced apart teeth, formed on arms extending radially from a hub, which intermesh as the pivoting cutter pivots. The cutters each have at least one tooth with an edge which passes adjacent the other as the pivoting cutter pivots, each edge being angled towards the other in a direction of rotation configured to concentrate force at a single point along the edges as the edges pass one another. The motor can be disposed at a side of the cutters, and off a longitudinal axis which extends between an inlet and an outlet. The motor can be disposed at an elevation above a lowermost cutter, and/or above the outlet of a housing containing the cutters. The motor can engage a perimeter of the pivoting cutter, and may have a gear interface.

Abstract: A two handle faucet and mounting structure has a pair of valve bodies each of which contain a control valve. The valve bodies extend through sink deck openings and are connected by a waterway which is positioned beneath the sink deck. A spout tube is attached to the waterway and extends through a third sink deck opening which is positioned between the other two. A mounting bracket is attached to the waterway and is adapted to be drawn up against the underside of the sink deck by the use of a mounting tool which is inserted into the mounting bracket from above the sink deck. The valve bodies are first positioned through openings in the sink deck and loosely held to the sink deck through the use of mounting members which are positioned in valve body recesses above the sink deck.

Abstract: A water temperature sensing/flow control mixing valve has a valve body with hot and cold water inlets and at least one outlet. A mixing valve member is positioned within the valve body and controls the proportion of hot and cold water that flows from the outlet. A water flow restrictor is positioned within the valve body and movable from a normal flow position in which outlet flow is unobstructed to a position in which the restrictor partially closes the outlet to limit flow therefrom. There is a shaped memory metal actuator positioned within the valve body to move the restrictor from the normal flow position to the flow limiting position when the water within the valve body exceeds a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A portable electric appliance steaming hair rollers prior to use includes a closed box-shaped housing removably holding a plurality of foam covered steam absorbent hair rollers. A manually actuated pump is provided in the housing for transferring a measured charge of water from a water reservoir removable from the housing for filling to an electrically heated steam boiler located in the housing and communicating with a cup-shaped roller support designed to support a single roller for steaming. The support is provided with an orifice receiving steam from the boiler through a predetermined path to soak or saturate a supported roller with steam to prepare the roller for use. A flexible membrane type valve is located below the orifice between the support and the boiler for permitting steam only to flow to the roller from the boiler and preventing flooding of the boiler should water be mistakenly dumped into the cup-shaped roller support.