Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept provide a double-sealed high-temperature resistant DC ignitor for use with a wood pellet burner assembly. The DC ignitor includes a non-heating element portion. The non-heating element portion is connected to at least one of a battery or an AC to DC electrical transformer attached to the wood pellet burner assembly. A heating element is connected to the non-heating element portion, and extends by at least one inch into a combustion region of the wood pellet burner assembly. The heating element portion is configured to be heated by power received from the battery or the AC to DC electrical transformer. The DC ignitor provides safe, reliable, and fast combustion of wood pellets that congregate in a combustion region of the wood pellet burner assembly.

Abstract: An electric cigar lighter for lighting a cigar having an electrical power supply with positive and negative terminals attachable to a tubular body, the battery disposed in the body, and a resistor plate connected to the electrical power supply, the resistor plate defining a plurality of parallel circuits connected in series with one another.

Abstract: A glow plug including a pressure sensor (830) and a heater (150). The glow plug includes a position-defining member which defines the positional relationship between the pressure sensor (830) and the heater (150) and has a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than that of the heater. The pressure sensor (830) is fixed at a predetermined sensor reference position relative to the position-defining member. The heater (150) is held by a heater-holding member (820) in such manner that an attachment position A of the heater-holding member to the heater can be displaced, with a change in external pressure, relative to a predetermined heater reference position defined by the position-defining member. A displacement transmission member (840) is arranged between the heater (150) and the pressure sensor (830) so as to transmit displacement of the heater (150) to the pressure sensor (830).

Abstract: A device comprising an improved electrical hot-air gun for fast ignition of the charcoal-bed of a barbeque charcoal grill for home use having a very short distance between the front of the hot-air gun and the electrical heating wire of the heating assembly and a very high outlet temperature. The hot-air gun also has a scraper mounted on the igniter/heater front to be able to aid in cleaning the grating of a BBQ grill.

Abstract: The invention includes an apparatus and method of determining the type of igniter for a burner at each stage of a boiler. The apparatus includes a controller operable to detect whether a first type of igniter or a second type of igniter is installed in the burner based on whether the first type of igniter or the second type of igniter transmits a response to the controller after receiving an activation signal from the controller.

Abstract: The invention includes an apparatus and method of determining the type of igniter for a burner at each stage of a boiler. The apparatus includes a controller operable to detect whether a first type of igniter or a second type of igniter is installed in the burner based on whether the first type of igniter or the second type of igniter transmits a response to the controller after receiving an activation signal from the controller.

Abstract: A chip or die attachment process and related apparatus, in which a desired quantity of solder (7 or 17) is dispensed onto each, in turn, of a number of desired locations on a substrate (4 or 18), and then an integrated-circuit chip (10) is precisely positioned at each location immediately after the solder is dispensed at that location. Hot gas heaters are used both to heat the solder (7 or 17) as it is dispensed onto the substrate (4 or 18), and to heat the integrated-circuit chip (10) and to reflow the solder beneath the chip. In one form of the invention, the solder is dispensed from a wire spool (1) and melted in position on the substrate (4). Alternatively, the solder is dispensed as a drop (16) from a liquid solder reservoir (13).

Abstract: A horizontally extending, hexagonally-shaped, metal platter defining a slightly upwardly convex cooking surface is supported on top of an upwardly diverging frustoconical hollow pot. The lower end of the pot rests on the top of an upwardly converging frustoconical hollow base. The platter extends horizontally beyond the upper end of the pot around the entire circumference of the pot. A charcoal or electric heat source within the pot causes air to be drawn through an intake vent in the base and heated gases to flow upwardly through the pot. The upper end of the pot has a plurality of V-shaped exhaust vents spaced around its entire circumference and the vents are sized so that the velocity of the heated gases rising through the pot and escaping through the exhaust vents is sufficient to insure that the outer periphery of the platter will be heated to a cooking temperature.

Abstract: A portable electric cooking grill having a base including side walls defining an open space interiorly thereof, a convoluted electric resistance element mounted in the lower portion of the base, and a crown-like tray having a central opening therein and supported on brackets connected to the side walls above the resistance element. A plurality of rows of ventilation openings are provided in the side wall of the upper portion of the base. A rotatable, perforated disc element is rotatably supported on a bridge element above the central opening of the tray. The disc element comprises a plurality of openings having cup-shaped deflectors integral with the disc and positioned above the openings and oriented angularly relative to the plane of rotation of the disc and in the same circular direction so that the rising, heated air will cause the disc to rotate. A steel grill element is supported on the crown-shaped tray above the rotating disc.

Abstract: An electric charcoal igniting device consisting of an upright open-ended sleeve of fire-resistant sheet metal in combination with an electric heating element. The heat loop of the electric element is disposed in the interior of the sleeve and the insulated handle of the element is secured to the exterior wall of the sleeve. In use the device is placed directly onto the pan, or coal-holding grate, of a charcoal grill, the sleeve is filled with the desired amount of charcoal briquets or the like, and the electric element is plugged in to ignite the briquets. When the desired degree of ignition is obtained, the device is lifted by the handle leaving the ignited coals in place.

Abstract: A recirculating oven in which air and oxidized gases from a burner tube are directed to evaporation zone outlets at the bottom of the oven and curing zone outlets at the top and fed into a pair of wire work chambers, the gas streams mixing between the zones and return with volatile substances through a return duct to a burner mounted in the upper portion of the burner tube. The burner tube is mounted within a burner tube housing partitioned so that the volatile fumes returning to the burner are maintained separately from the oxidized gases and air exiting from the burner tube. The burner is electrically energized and has a cylindrical housing supporting a number of radial vanes supported between spaced baffle plates, the vanes imparting a vortex pattern to the gases entering holes in the housing periphery. A support plate on the top of the housing carries two high temperature ceramic igniter heater elements surrounded by a multiplicity of resistance type electrical heating elements.

Abstract: The electrical resistance hot-plate of the plug of the lighter comprises a holder which houses and retains a heating element in the form of a metal strip shaped, for example, in accordion-pleated folds or a coil, so as to have consecutive turns which together define respective flat faces at the two opposing edges of the strip, at least one of which is so situated in correspondence with an open side of the holder for receiving the tip of a cigarette. The consecutive turns of the strip are spaced apart so as to define a plurality of interstices, and the holder has at least one opening opposite its open side to expose a greater part of the corresponding flat face of the heating element and allow a flow of air from one face of the element to the other.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter which uses household current features automatic operation by manipulation of the cigarette only. The cigarette lighter includes a housing having an ashtray portion and an upper housing portion having a passage defining a chimney overlying the ashtray. A cigarette guide passage communicates with the chimney passage and an electrical resistance heating element is disposed within the chimney passage in alignment with the cigarette guide passage. An actuator is movably mounted within the cigarette guide passage for energizing the resistance heating element in response to the insertion of a cigarette into the guide passage, and for de-energizing the heating element in response to the withdrawal of the cigarette from the guide passage. An updraft caused by heat generated by the resistance heating element carries smoke upwardly through the chimney, thereby providing a visual indication that the cigarette has ignited.

Abstract: A cigarette case including a row of tubular sockets in which cigarettes are fitted, an electric circuit inside the case including a spiral heating coil positioned adjacent one end of each cigarette, the coil being mounted on a slide block having an externally extending push button which when pushed, pushes the cigarette end outwardly of an edge of the case, and at a same time slides the contacts of the coil into engagement with stationary contacts connected to dry cell batteries, so to heat the coil and thus ignite the cigarette as it is being pushed outwardly from the case.

Abstract: A housing is provided including an upper portion for storing a plurality of cigarettes and a lower portion including cigarette support and ignition structure for supporting and igniting a cigarette dispensed thereto by gravity from the upper portion. The upper portion includes cigarette dispensing structure for dispensing single cigarettes downwardly by gravity toward the support and ignition structure. The cigarette support and ignition structure is of a construction to support a cigarette to be ignited in an inclined position and includes an electrical resistance heating element positioned for end abutting engagement of the lower end of the supported cigarette to be ignited, whereby the lower end of the cigarette will be ignited upon actuation of the electrical resistance heating element.