Abstract: A method for safe and uniform microwave cooking of food articles in a container, comprising providing a microwave permeable container, wherein a portion of said container is covered with a microwave reflective surface to deflect microwaves away from a predefined body of liquid within said container; loading bacon within said container; and exposing said container to microwaves for a predetermined time period.

Abstract: A bacon cooker and method for microwave cooking of bacon. The bacon cooker includes an outer container, an inner container, a rack, and a lid. The lid is releasably attached to the container via a plurality of cam locks that which engage the container and rim and force the rim into the engagement with the underside of the lid. Lever arms with clasps specifically dimensioned to securely engage the outside wall of the lid when the cam locks in are the locked position. The rack is dimensioned to fit inside the container and consists of a plurality of radially extending vanes over which bacon is hung for cooking. The rack includes a upwardly extending stem with alternate vanes dimensioned to fit within a centrally located bore on the lid for securing the container to the lid. A microwave reflective surface is positioned between vacuum sealed outer and inner containers.

Abstract: A bacon cooker and method for the microwave cooking of bacon. The bacon cooker includes a cover unit for releasably retaining a microwave permeable container having an open end with an annular, laterally projecting rim. The cover unit is designed to extend over the open end of the container and includes a plurality of cam locks which engage the container rim and force the rim into engagement with the underside of the cover unit. The cover unit is provided with a steam vent which includes an elongate, open ended shaft extending outwardly from the cover into the container. A plurality of radially extending arms are affixed to the shaft in spaced relationship to the cover. A hydrophilic material isi placed in the bottom of the container.

Abstract: The mixer and fluid filtering unit is connectable to a source of a first or base fluid under pressure and to a source of a second fluid or solute which may be a solute pumping unit. The base fluid flows into a mixer section through a first inlet, and a small proportion of the base fluid is diverted into a filter section where it is filtered and passed out as motive fluid for the solute pumping unit. The remainder of the base fluid flows through a compensating valve assembly and into the mixer section where it is mixed with solute by a fluid pressure operated ratio valve assembly which maintains a variable preset mixing ratio. A sensor connected to the compensating valve assembly senses filter pressure drop and adjusts the compensating valve assembly in accordance therewith.

Abstract: An improved hose reel assembly for use in storing and easily releasing a flat hose. The reel assembly comprises a base having a handle which facilitates unwinding the reel and which is also adapted for supporting the reel assembly in a hanging position. The reel assembly includes first and second nesting sockets for holding the nozzle coupling and the faucet coupling without exposure. A squeegie mechanism is included at the base for assuring that the stored hose is emptied of fluids thereby minimizing molding and rotting.

Abstract: A versatile portable fluid dispensing, manually controlled gun with instant selectivity of hard, soft or foam flow of liquids, either of water or a solution, with or without entrainment of fluid such as air and with or without a foaming flow of the fluid whereby each of a great many different relations of discharge can be selected with a versatile solution discharge nozzle that provides selectively changeable liquid solid jet streams or soft flows of liquids with or without entrainment of a fluid such as air; and selectively with entrainment of air operable either with or without a foaming agent in the liquid. Instant controls interchangeably operated provide any one of twelve different dispensing relations with water alone or with a chemical foaming agent, each supplied separately or together as a mixture; in each of these phases, namely jet flow, soft flow and foam flow.

Abstract: In the present invention a solution dispensing appliance such as a mixture proportioning spray gun made of molded plastic for consistent production accuracy of ratio mixing, lightness of weight and ease of handling, is provided with a resilient circular collar preferably carried at the end of the solvent supply hose where coupled to the gun which serves as an unobtrusive resilient bumper to engage the ground, or floor, if dropped, and to counteract, cushion, and protect the light molded gun against shattering impacts wherein the major effective weight of the falling hose filled with water on one side of the bumper collar is effective in counteracting and checking the downward momentum of the gun on the other side of the collar.

Abstract: A proportioning and mixing device for dispensing under pressure a liquid solution having an excellent ratio accuracy irrespective of solvent gauge pressures and liquid solvent and/or solute temperatures, including a multi-stage jet proportioning and mixing device in the first stage of which the solute is free flowing at atmospheric pressure and is aspirated from a mixing chamber by kinetic flow energy of the solvent at a constant rate of flow from a smaller orifice directed through the mixing chamber to entrain solute therefrom and aspirate it into and through a larger orifice beyond which the kinetic flow energy is converted back to pressure in an expanding wall chamber. This pressure rise output enters the gap of the second stage whereupon it is acted upon by the flow from the input orifice and the resulting mixture is directed through an output orifice and then converted back to pressure. This process is repeated in subsequent stages.

Abstract: A jet proportioning and liquid mixing pump system having one or preferably more than one proportioning stages with the first stage operating at a low ratio below 1 to 5 to minimize degradation in which solvent under kinetic flow energy initially mixes with free flowing solute at substantially environmental pressure to prevent vaporization effects upon the solute, and, controlling the desired ultimate ratio with high accuracy by either varying the effective flow area of the solvent flowing under kinetic energy in a final mixing zone, or varying the mixer induced output pressure upon the mixture as it leaves a mixing stage after the kinetic flow energy in the mixture therefor has been converted to pressure flow to maintain a positive pressure upon the solute at the proportioning stages.

Abstract: A low cost liquid proportioning and mixing device of high accuracy dispensing a solution or mixture involving volume, pressure and flow rates and including a multi-stage jet proportioning and mixing device in which any variation occurring in the designed ratio of the mixture is confined essentially to the first proportioning stage operating at a low solution ratio below 1 to 5 with the pressure of free flowing solute entering the zone of confluence for each stage and the pressure of the mixture leaving the zone of confluence being essentially equal and the outflow area of any final discharge opening is possibly less but not greater than the flow area of the conduit opening from the zone of confluence of the final stage with or without a conduit used between them, the final proportion of the solution being the multiplicand of the solution proportion of the individual stages.

Abstract: A solution dispensing proportioner utilizing a varyingly pressurized solvent and a solute having a vagrant negative gauge pressure and a tracer that is detectable in proportion to its concentration. The proportioner aspirates the solute and tracer through a conduit, which may have metering flow valves ahead of the confluence in one embodiment, and then for progressive check of the proportion of the solution after confluence by comparing the light transmissivity of the inflowing solute and the outflowing solution, respectively. The viewing is through windows in close proximity to each other where the relative depths of the flowing streams of solute and solution, as viewed, are substantially inversely proportional to the desired percentage of solute in the solution as corrected for a null point traverse by adjusting the solute valve to provide the ratio desired for the solute and solvent in the final solution. The tracer supply is variable to optimize the null point appraisal.

Abstract: An inexpensive portable liquid supply tank that serves initially as a shipping container and as a solute or solution dispenser and pump unit carried on a person's back by shoulder straps whose upper support effort is transmitted to the tank about a center of gravity designed to be close to the carrier's back on a strain line directed through its volumetric center of gravity as determined by interbraced semi-flexible front and back walls for carrying comfort and with the straps and a liquid eduction tube extending over the shoulders of the carrier while the other ends of the shoulder straps engage the lower corners of the tank. Motion of the tank on the carrier's back maintains wettable powders in solution if any are present.

Abstract: A unitary supply means for two separate liquids comprising a flexible supply hose unit defining at least two conduits generally of different sizes, one of which preferably is transparent, having an integral common wall reinforcement of extra thickness between them urging the hose to straighten against kinking and providing short free ends for each conduit of different lengths for mating longitudinally spaced series of connections or couplings with appropriate liquid supplies and mixer inlets, the couplings in the solute line being self-tightening under longitudinal stretch strains, and preferably in combination with means for adjusting the relative rates of flow of the liquids through the several mixing chambers.

Abstract: A low cost liquid proportioning and mixing device of high accuracy dispensing a solution or mixture involving volume, pressure and flow rates and including a multi-stage jet proportioning and mixing device in which any variation occurring in the designed ratio of the mixture is confined essentially to the first proportioning stage operating at a low solution ratio below 1 to 5 with the pressure of free flowing solute entering the zone of confluence for each stage and the pressure of the mixture leaving the zone of confluence being essentially equal and the outflow area of any final discharge opening is possibly less but not greater than the flow area of the conduit opening from the zone of confluence of the final stage with or without a conduit used between them, the final proportion of the solution being the multiplicand of the solution proportion of the individual stages.

Abstract: A solution dispensing proportioner utilizing a varyingly pressurized solvent and a solute having a vagrant negative gauge pressure and a tracer that is detectable in proportion to its concentration. The proportioner aspirates the solute and tracer through a conduit, which may have metering flow valves ahead of the confluence in one embodiment, and then for a progressive check of the proportion of the solution after confluence by comparing the light transmissivity of the inflowing solute and the outflowing solution, respectively. The viewing is through windows in close proximity to each other where the relative depths of the flowing streams of solute and solution, as viewed, are substantially inversely proportional to the desired percentage of solute in the solution as corrected for a null point traverse by adjusting the solute valve to provide the ratio desired for the solute and solvent in the final solution. The tracer supply is variable to optimize the null point appraisal.

Abstract: A portable mixing-dispensing device having a manual flow control valve means between a ventable flow control chamber and a solution-proportioning chamber, and a manual feed valve between the proportioning device and a source of concentrate supplied at a negative gauge pressure, same including means to selectively coordinate the operation of the valves. The feed valve serves also as an anti-backflow check valve for the concentrate supplied under a negative gauge pressure as well as maintaining the prime thereof without dilution when concentrate is not being supplied to the mixing chamber. A translucent concentrate supply tube readily visible from above the mixing chamber serves as a visual check as to the prime of the concentrate.

Abstract: A multiple stage jet proportioning and mixing pump system in which any variation occurring in the proportion ratio of the ultimate solution is confined essentially in the first proportioning stage operating at a low ratio below 1 to 5 with initial confluence of solvent and solute at substantially atmospheric pressure followed by the primary mixture being supplied to the second proportioning operation at a pressure preferably equal to that of the solvent jet at their confluence.

Abstract: A multiple stage jet proportioning and mixing pump system in which any variation occurring in the proportion ratio of the ultimate solution is confined essentially in the first proportioning stage operating at a low ratio below 1 to 5 with initial confluence of solvent and solute at substantially atmospheric pressure followed by the primary mixture being supplied to the second proportioning operation at a pressure preferably equal to that of the solvent jet at their confluence.

Abstract: A solution dispensing proportioner utilizing a varyingly pressurized solvent and a solute having a vagrant negative gauge pressure and a tracer that is detectable in proportion to its concentration. The proportioner aspirates the solute and tracer through a conduit, which may have metering flow valves ahead of the confluence in one embodiment, and then for a progressive check of the proportion of the solution after confluence by comparing the light transmissivity of the inflowing solute and the outflowing solution, respectively. The viewing is through windows in close proximity to each other where the relative depths of the flowing streams of solute and solution, as viewed, are substantially inversely proportional to the desired percentage of solute in the solution as corrected for a null point traverse by adjusting the solute valve to provide the ratio desired for the solute and solvent in the final solution.