Abstract: An improved power supply cord connection to an electrically heated flatiron having a permanent connected power supply cord extending vertically from the rear of the flatiron handle permits the cord to frictionally swivel or pivot from front to back along the longitudinal axis of the handle in an elongated slot in the handle between a forward non-interference position when the flatiron is in a multi-point heel rest position and a rearward position preventing cord interference with the work during use of the flatiron.The cord includes a bushing enclosing the cord conductors and an integrally formed enlarged head within the handle straddling the slot and locking the bushing therein. Transverse pivot ribs on the sides of the slot cooperate with notched friction bearing ears on the enlarged bushing end to allow the bushing to pivot between limit stops at the front and rear of the slot.

Abstract: A warming room whose flexible, electric blanket-like wall or walls, floor and ceiling generate surface heat to provide uniform warmth in the area which they enclose. Portions of the warming room comprise one or more warming walls or barriers to increase the temperature of an indoor area and enhance the comfort of its occupants. Using the invention, people lower thermostat settings in portions of rooms, offices or other buildings which are not occupied while they occupy the warmer area within the warming room or adjacent to a warming barrier or enclosure made of warming barriers.

Abstract: An electrically heated hair curling instrument, such as a curling iron, includes heating element having an outer tube enclosing a thermistor located between a pair of longitudinally spaced electric heating coils and arranged in contact with the tube interior surface. The heating element is detachably connected to the end of a handle assembly by mating electrical connectors. An electric cord connects the heating coils and thermistor through the mating connectors and a rotatable mandrel and slip rings in the handle assembly to a temperature control box mounted in a stand having means for supporting the curling instrument when not in use. A manually-adjustable temperature control circuit located in the control box and responsive to the temperature of the heating element as measured by the thermistor controls energization of the curling instrument, depending on the type of hair being curled. The stand and control box can be arranged to accomodate and control two curling instruments of different size.

Abstract: An electrically heated hair curling iron includes a sheet-shaped heater with electrodes affixed to an electrically resistive layer, wrapped around an elongated cylindrical support, and capable of being rapidly heated and maintained hot by electric current available from a rechargeable storage battery. The resistive layer has a positive temperature coefficient of resistance so that its temperature is self limiting. The storage battery is contained in a handle attached to the cylindrical support, and a battery charger is disclosed which comes into electrical contact with the battery when the handle is inserted in a cavity located in the battery charger. An elongated longitudinal clip is used to retain the hair in contact with the heater; a removable cap protects the heater and clip when the iron is not in use, and also engages a switch which ensures that the iron does not remain on.

Abstract: An electronic temperature control circuit for regulating the soleplate temperature of an electrically heated pressing iron is located in the handle and supporting structure of the iron. The electronic circuit includes a thyristor controlling energization of the soleplate heater and tending to emit heat. The thyristor is mounted to a heat dissipating cooling plate located within a leakproof cavity in the supporting structure remotely from the other electronic components of the control circuit tending to be adversely affected by heat. The cooling plate and thyristor are mounted on a detachable wall closing the cavity and shaped to provide a resting stand which allows the iron to be rested flatly on a horizontal surface without the soleplate contacting the surface.

Abstract: A compact portable device energizable from a motor vehicle battery for thawing frozen motor vehicle door locks includes an electrically heated thawing stick sized for insertion into the keyhole of a frozen lock. The stick comprises a hollow metal body enclosing a resistance wire. One end of the wire is connected to the stip of the metal body and the other end is connected to an elongated cable terminating in a plug insertable into an electrical socket on the vehicle connected to the vehicle battery. The thawing stick is secured to a hollow protective case modeled in the form of a flat key end and provided with a key ring. The case has an open narrow side through which the cable can be inserted for storage within the case during non-use periods and the stick is pivoted for movement from a non-use position covering the open side of the case to an extended use position.

Abstract: A solder extractor includes a tubular heater and removable tip carrying front unit having a rear cowl of heat insulating material and a relatively oblique rear unit including a tubular handle of heat insulated material and having a front portion with longitudinal outer ribs telescoping the cowl and separably secured thereto by screws. A transparent solder receiver tube is separably housed in the handle and its front end releasably engages a seal plug carried by a conveyor tube extending from the heater bore and its rear end is sealed by a tube coupling carrying closure member which is releasably locked to the handle member. A cooperating window in the cowl and handle permit continuous viewing of the juncture of the tip extension and the solder receiver tube. The handle has a longitudinal channel which slidably houses an electric cable connected to the heater and permits the handle to be slid rearwardly on the cable when the handle is detached from the cowl.

Abstract: A battery operated portable thawing device for frozen locks has an electrically heated thawing stick sized for insertion into the key hole of a frozen lock. The stick is thinner than the lock key and comprises a hollow metal body inside which is located a thin resistance heating wire. The resistance wire is located between the middle and the end of the stick inserted into the keyhole in a relatively short length (20-30%) of the thawing stick. For use, the stick is slidable out of a protective housing adapted to be gripped in the hand. The housing carries a battery for energizing the stick and a light bulb for illuminating the keyhole. The metal body of the stick serves as one terminal for supplying current to the resistance wire. The circuit between the battery and resistance wire made automatically made when the stick is moved out of the housing for use and broken when the stick is returned into the housing.

Abstract: A burn-in knife for furniture repair has an electrically heated blade and is provided with an adjustable edge guide assembly mounted on the knife handle for supporting the knife on a workpiece and maintaining the working edge of the blade at a predetermined distance from the workpiece. The guide assembly includes a heat-insulative guide means arranged in side-by-side relationship to the working edge of the blade and out of the working path thereof. The guide means lies in the same plane as the blade and has a straight edge adapted to engage the workpiece. The guide means is selectively adjustable both vertically and rotationally relative to the working edge of the blade.

Abstract: A tool which is particularly useful in sealing plastic materials used in constructing model airplanes or for soldering is disclosed. The tool includes a handle containing a full wave AC control and heating shoe containing first and second bores. A sleeve has one end detachably connected to the handle and has inserted in its other end a cylindrical heating cartridge. The heating cartridge and sleeve are inserted into the bores in the heating shoe and held in place by means of a a set screw. The sleeve has an enlarged collar portion which engages the end of the heating shoe. An insulating collar of polytetrafluoroethylene surrounds the portion of the sleeve extending from the collar portion to the handle and minimizes heat transfer from the heating shoe and sleeve to the handle. The external surface of the heating shoe may be provided with a non-stick coating. The heating cartridge is connected to the AC line through the control in the handle to permit controlling degree of heat.

Abstract: A collapsible cordless electric hair curling appliance includes a hollow handle adapted for grasping by a user. A heating wand is extensibly slidably retained in the hollow portion of the handle. An improved positive temperature coefficient heating element assembly is positioned inside the wand. An electric plug assembly is also slidably mounted in the hollow portion of the handle. The plug is mounted so as to extend from the handle for connection with a conventional electric socket only when the wand is substantially fully inserted into the hollow handle. The novel plug assembly eliminates the need for a conventional electric cord and is also rotatably mounted in the handle to provide added convenience for plugging the appliance into a conventional electric socket. For storage, both the wand and plug assembly may be enclosed within the handle.

Abstract: There is provided a telescoping hand-held hair curler in which a heatable barrel slides longitudinally with respect to a hollow handle. The electrical wires carrying power to heat the barrel enter the rearward end of the handle and connect to a swivel coupling which reciprocates within the handle. The barrel extends forwardly from the swivel coupling and out through the other end of the handle. The construction avoids having loose wires running between a stationary swivel coupling and a moving barrel.

Abstract: A hair curling device includes a handle having a front end provided with a socket in which an enlarged cylindrical rear end of an electrically heated hair curling barrel is rotatably mounted. An annular cap-like coupling member secured to the handle couples the barrel rear end in the socket. The barrel is rotated by an electric motor in the handle coupled to the enlarged barrel end by a drive shaft which also carries electrical connection means permitting electric power to be supplied to the heating element in the barrel while the barrel rotates. A pivoted hair clip extends along and parallel to a major portion of the heated barrel and the other end of the barrel is provided with a heat insulating tip member including a radially extending annular portion. Electric power is supplied to the motor and heating element through a power cord connected to the other end of the handle by a swivel connector. Separate switches for controlling the motor and heating element are provided.

Abstract: A curling iron includes a tubular barrel extending forwardly from a hollow handle. The barrel contains an electric heating element and is provided with a spring-biased pivotable hair holding clamp conforming to the surface of the barrel. The barrel and clamp are pivotal as a unit about 180 degrees from the extended operative position into a folded storage position within the handle through a side opening in the handle. The opening is closed by a pair of inwardly pivotable doors which are spring-biased to an outward closed position conforming to the outer surface of the handle. Pivotal movement of the barrel from its extended position causes contacts on the barrel to separate from spring contact elements fixed in the handle to disconnect the heating element from its electric power source. As the barrel and clamp are folded into the handle through the opening, the doors are pushed inwardly out of the way so that the handle may receive the barrel and clamp for storage.

Abstract: A hand tool for heating a workpiece includes an elongated electric heating element, a heat applying member conductively connected at one end of the heating element and in alignment therewith, and an elongated cover surrounding and spaced from the heating element. The heating element and heat applying member are connected to the cover adjacent only one end of the cover, with the connection defining the sole heat conductive path therebetween. A handle is disposed at generally right angles to the cover. A relatively wide bent bracket member, including a hair-pin shaped portion, substantially coextensive in length with the cover and disposed between the cover member and handle, connects the handle to the cover solely at the opposite end of the cover. The cover dissipates heat throughout its length and the bracket is wide enough to shield the handle from the heat dissipated by the cover. Thus the cover and bracket member shield the handle from heat generated by the heating element with the tool is in operation.

Abstract: An electrically heated tip assembly, particularly useful with a cyclically operated thermal press usable for forcible placement of inserts of hard material within bases of softer materials, includes a generally longitudinal tubular core member formed of a thermally conductive material. The core encloses an electric resistance heating element and has a tip element secured to one end thereof in heat exchange relationship with the heating element. The tip element includes a protruding finger member engageable with an insert and a paraboloidal section between the core member and protruding finger member to facilitate the concentration of heat downwardly into the finger member during the insertion portion of the operating cycle of the press.

Abstract: A portable radiant heating apparatus includes a pair of linearly extending members pivotally attached to one another adjacent a first end thereof and pivotal about the pivotal attachment to be generally parallel to one another. A lamp receiving electrical socket supported on the other end of each of the members receives a high intensity infrared lamp electrically arranged to receive power from its socket via means for connecting each of the sockets to an electrical power source. A concave infrared reflective shield is provided about each of the lamps and shaped to direct the light from each of the lamps generally uni-directionally. Thermal insulation means are also provided to protect the members and shields from the heat generated by the lamps.

Abstract: An electrically heated kitchen utensil has a thermally insulated handle provided with an internal electric heating unit adapted to releasably receive and heat a kitchen device, such as a knife, spoon, scoop, dipper or spatula. The heating unit comprises a pair of spaced parallel electric heating elements defining an channel which receives the shank of the kitchen device. The kitchen device is releasably secured in the channel by interengaged teeth on the shank and a spring biased pivoted member forming the bottom of the channel. The kitchen device is released by a release push button acting on the pivoted member to disengage the teeth. A rheostat is provided to regulate the heat output of the heating elements.

Abstract: A paperboard carton for packaging a pizza is provided with a substantially rigid, pizza-supporting electrical-resistance heater insert comprising a corrugated paperboard panel having laminated thereto a sheet of vacuum-metallized glassine. Arc-sprayed zinc bus bars extend over opposed edges of the metallized sheet and serve as electrodes for conducting electricity through the sheet as the resistor element. Electrical energy is supplied to the electrodes by a removable terminal clip that extends through an opening provided in a side wall of the carton and both electrically and mechanically engages suitably presented electrode terminals. An insulating sheet of coated paper extends over the metallized surface, the electrodes, and the bus bars, and serves as the immediate support surface for the pizza.

Abstract: A portable electric curling iron has a hollow handle having an open end. An electrically heated hair curling member is arranged for telescopic movement between a retracted storage position within the handle and an extended use position wherein the member projects from the handle through the open end thereof. Movable electrical connector plug means are provided on the iron for connecting the electric heating means associated with the hair curling member to a power source. Means are provided for automatically moving the connector plug means between a retracted plug position wherein the plug means is substantially entirely within the handle and an extended plug position wherein the plug projects from the handle in response to the telescopic movement of the hair curling member into and out of the handle.

Abstract: An electric soldering iron is disclosed incorporating a front end to provide a heated working tip, the elongate, somewhat cylindrical structure of the tip defining an annular groove to receive a ring for retaining engagement with a threaded collar. The portion of the front end remote from the tip terminates in a radial-flange fastener structure which is affixed to the ends of a pair of elongated handle members that mate together to define a somewhat symmetrical handle, having an irregular internal passage for anchoring the cord (energizing electrical conductors) and relieving stress. As disclosed, a pair of sliding collars are disposed on the handle members for locking the assembly together. One of the collars (adjacent the front end) is internally tapered and defines ridges to engage the handle members so as to provide air spaces for heat shielding and insulating the handle. The handle defines corners as a result of a triangular sectional configuration to inhibit rolling from a rest position.

Abstract: A soldering iron can be constructed using a heating element structure or first part connected to a handle structure or second part through the use of connectors on these parts which are adapted to be secured together through the use of a rotary or twisting type motion. The handle structure includes a spring biased sleeve which projects from it toward the heating element structure. The heating element structure includes a metal flange which is resiliently engaged by the sleeve when the parts are connected together. This flange in effect forms a part of a tubular, metal housing used to connect a body disposed in proximity to the heating element so as to conduct heat away from the heating element and the connector on the heating element structure. The housing serves to protect the heating element structure against physical damage and is grounded through the flange and the sleeve to an appropriate grounding wire leading from the handle structure.

Abstract: A hair curling iron is arranged to have a handle with a concave portion pivotally connected to a heatable hair curling assembly including a tubular member heated by an electrical heater means and a plug for conducting electrical current to the electrical heater means. The plug is pivotally mounted on the hair curling assembly to withdraw a cavity in the hair curling assembly. The hair curling assembly is arranged to fold into the concave portion of the curling iron handle to provide a convenient package for carrying in a pocket or purse.

Abstract: An electrically powered hand-held heating device having an electrical heating member with a sleeve member disposed thereabout for insulating the user's hand from localized heating of the heating member, a body member formed having an enlarged housing portion and a reduced neck portion. The neck portion releasably engages the heating member and the sleeve member and provides a thermal barrier between the heating member, and the enlarged housing portion while the enlarged housing portion has an electronic control circuit mounted therein for controlling the heating temperature of the heating member for various selected heating ranges.

Abstract: An immersion water heater particularly suitable for use in connection with animal watering buckets includes a housing fixed to an end of an electrical conduit and locatable on the bottom of a watering bucket. A U-shaped metallic sheathed heating element projects from the housing into a protective shield comprising plates secured to opposite sides of the heating element by spool-shaped insulator posts received between the legs of the heating element. A temperature sensing member is attached has one end attached to the heating element exteriorly of the housing and a second end extending into the housing. A thermostat and a thermofuse are located in the housing in heat exchange engagement with the second end of the temperature sensing member, whereby in the absence of water around the heating element and temperature sensing member, heat is rapidly transmitted from the heating element through the member to the thermostat and thermofuse to deenergize the heating element.

Abstract: A food serving system for delivering prepared meals to locations remote from the point of preparation, such as to patients in hospitals and nursing homes, which includes a mobile cart having its own low voltage rechargeable power pack that may be utilized to make the cart self powered. The cart has a tier of racks for carrying removable, generally flat, individual, food serving trays. The trays may be disposable or reusable. Each tray is provided with one or more thermally isolated heat transfer devices which may be energized when the tray is placed on a rack in the cart. The trays are constructed to carry conventionally styled, removable dishes, bowls, cups, etc., that may be either disposable or reusable, and the dishes and bowls containing foods to be maintained at a reduced or elevated temperature are placed on the heat transfer devices.

Abstract: An improved soldering-desoldering instrument is disclosed which includes a stainless steel, thin walled sheath having a front end which is both internally and externally threaded: internally for securing the electric heater cartridge, and externally for securing the soldering tip, all in very high thermal energy flow relation. The rear of the sheath is formed integrally with a hexagonal nut to facilitate the indicated threaded assembly and disassembly.

Abstract: An electrically heated spreader assembly for spreading, smoothing and curing plastic filler material, as in automobile body dents, includes an elongated handle provided with an slide track along a longitudinal edge. A stiff elongated spreader blade made of a synthetic plastic, such as Teflon or nylon, has an electrical heating element embedded therein and is provided along a longitudinal edge with flanged slide means adapted to be slidably received in and interfit with the slide track to secure the handle and blade together. The blade and handle are provided with separable electrical contacts which cooperate to establish an electrical connection between the heating element in the blade and an electrical supply cord on the handle when the blade has been slidably mounted in operative position on the handle.

Abstract: The instrument includes a first handle and a first blade pivotally connected scissors-fashion with a second handle and a second blade. One of the blades is formed with a first notch for severing the tail of a pig and with a second notch for severing the navel cord of the pig. A heating unit heats the other blade in order to cauterize the tail or navel cord as an incident to the severing operation. The heating unit includes a handle which coacts with the other two handles to define a tripod for supporting the instrument in a standing position when the instrument is not in use.

Abstract: An electrically heated soldering device includes a housing having an elongated axis with an obtuse angle, an open end, a closed end and an intermediate opening. The outer dimensions of the housing are so dimensioned that the device can be held pencil-fashion with the portion of the housing between the open end and intermediate end grasped by the fingers and thumb of the hand with the portion of the housing between the intermediate opening and the closed end resting on the back of the hand between the thumb and index finger. An electric heating means is substantially coaxially positioned in the housing in spaced relation thereto and is provided with a soldering tip protruding out of the housing through said open end. The open end and the intermediate opening are substantially aligned to produce a chimney-like hollow space surrounding the hot parts of the heating means which carries away excess heat generated within the housing thereby maintaining the housing comfortably cool to touch.

Abstract: A lunch bucket containing an electric heating coil that can be plugged into a household electric outlet, so to heat up a compartment in the bucket for holding hot foods, while another compartment is insulated therefrom so to contain cold foods.

Abstract: A portable, foldable, and heatable cushion and raincoat apparatus has foldable carrying case with cushioning means attached thereinside and a raincoat having a portion attached thereinside so that it may be folded into a carrying case. The carrying case has a zippered enclosure and a handle for ease in carrying to spectator and sporting events to use as a cushion, and in inclement weather, to use as a raincoat or to keep warm. A heating element is attached inside the case to keep the user warm.

Abstract: A hand tool for extracting integrated circuit packs from printed circuit boards to which the pins of the pack have been soldered. The tool includes a pair of pivotable arms each of which carries an electrically heated tip. Each tip includes an inside face extending at a very slight angle to a plane bisecting the space between the faces and terminates in a bottom edge. The tool is arranged such that when the arms are moved toward each other the bottom edge of each tip clampingly engages and abuts the pins of a respective side of the pack at portions immediately adjacent to the printed circuit board solder joints but with the remaining inside surface of each tip remote from the remaining portions of the pins above the solder joints so that heat is applied to the pins at the joints but not appreciably to the circuit pack to effect the melting of the solder at the joints. Once the solder has melted the pack can be readily removed from the board.

Abstract: A curling iron with a stationary handle portion and a rotary handle portion mounted on the stationary handle portion has a hollow heat-conducting tube extending from the rotary handle portion with hair clamping means being pivotally connected to the heat-conducting tube and an electric heating element being mounted internally of the heat-conducting tube. The rotary handle portion can be turned by a finger of the hand of a user holding the stationary handle portion with the outer end of the heat-conducting tube being supported by the other hand of the user engaged with a knob-like supporting member which is mounted for rotation on a bearing bushing having a bifurcated end on which the support means is mounted with the bearing bushing being clamped to the outer end of the heat-conducting tube.

Abstract: A steam-producing curling iron includes a tubular barrel having a handle at one end and a liquid reservoir at the other end. An electrically-heated heating member is axially slidable within the barrel into and out of engagement with a stationary wick communicating with the reservoir. The heating member is guided by elongated depressions formed in the barrel surface and is spring biased to be normally spaced from the wick. A sliding seal is provided between the heating member and barrel whereby a steam chamber is defined between the seal and the wick. An actuating lever mounted on the handle is connected by a linkage to the heating member rearwardly of the seal for selectively moving the heating member into contact with the wick to generate steam in the steam chamber for discharge through holes in the barrel.

Abstract: A gravy warming ladle has a bowl comprising a pair of concavo-convex shell-like upper and lower parts with the upper part received within and having its bottom spaced from the lower part to form a hollow cavity therebetween that tapers from a maximum size at the center to a minimum size at the edges and with the edges of the parts being united in a thin free edge. An electric heating element is disposed in a mass of asbestos heat storing insulation filling the cavity. A tubular handle is attached to a neck on the bowl formed by fitted-together semi-cylindrical projections on the upper and lower parts. Current supply wires extend through the handle and are connected to the heating element at the neck portion. Insulating blocks in the neck portion insure proper insulation of the connections between the wires and heating element.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting arbitrary shapes in material, particularly in synthetic plastic foam material, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a bendable, shape-retaining, electrically conductive resitive wire which may be successively formed into any desired shape by selectively arranging either or both elements of a pair of independently movable wire positioning elements which are respectively attached to end portions of the resistive wire. The resistive wire is also connected to an electrical current source provided on said elements for heating the wire to a predetermined temperature which is sufficiently high so that the wire may cut the desired shape into the workpiece by heat.

Abstract: An electrically heated parting tool for removing windshields and other uses has a holder in the form of a long slender housing mounting a blade-like parting element at one end. The parting element is constructed of thin flat sheet metal and has a generally U-shape including a pair of thin flat leg portions disposed in coplanar relation and joined by a thin flat connecting portion defining a tip end. The free ends of the element leg portions are secured to a high temperature resistant ceramic-like support member recessed into one side of the holder. The parting element extends longitudinally from the holder and has a right angle bend between the holder and tip end whereby the tip end extends laterally of and toward the opposite side of the holder in spaced relation to the holder end. The holder includes a housing at the opposite end in which is located a step-down transformer connected to the leg portions of the parting element by leads extending through the holder.

Abstract: An electrically heated dispenser for serving frozen desserts, such as ice cream, includes a handle having an electric heating element projecting from the forward end thereof. A removable protective shield at least coextensive in length with the heating element is carried by the forward end of the handle and surrounds the heating element in spaced relation thereto. The shield is made of a material sufficiently transparent to permit visual inspection of the sanitary condition of the area within the shield including the inner surface thereof. A variety of serving implements, such as a dipper, scoop, knife, etc., are adapted to have an end selectively inserted through a front opening on the shield into heat exchange coupled relationship with the heating element.

Abstract: An electrically heated hooded cape garment includes arm hole slits. The garment is wrapped around the body and has a power cord which is plugged into a receptacle mounted through a wall of a carrying case for the garment. Batteries within the carrying case are connected to the receptacle for supplying power to the garment.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting arbitrary shapes in material, particularly in synthetic plastic foam material, comprises a bendable, shape-retaining, electrically conductive resistive wire. The wire may be successively formed into any desired form factor by selectively arranging either or both elements of a pair of independently movable electrically non-conductive wire-positioning elements which are respectively connected to end portions of the wire. The wire cuts the desired shape by the heat produced by connecting the wire to an electrical current source which heats the wire to a sufficiently high temperature. Securing portions are respectively provided on the movable wire-positioning elements so that the latter may be fixedly positioned and form an interlocked assembly, whereby the wire may be positioned into a narrow loop and thereby cut circular patterns into a series of workpieces.

Abstract: Terminal members of an electric tool, such as a soldering iron or the like, for receiving detachable tips wherein each tip has a pair of electrical conductors which are detachably secured to the terminal members. Each terminal member is an electrically conducting member having a longitudinal bore to receive a tip conductor, the mouth of the bore preferably being conically countersunk to facilitate conductor entry. A spring member, secured to the terminal member by a set screw inserted into a threaded opening intersecting the longitudinal bore remote from the mouth thereof, has a portion overlying the bored end of the member, the portion being movable transversely in opposition to spring bias.

Abstract: A hand manipulated electrically heated stylus tool for transferring insignia to an article from a ribbon or sheet having a coating on one face thereof subject to release and transfer to an article to be printed which operates on a 115 volt power supply without use of a voltage reducing transformer or temperature control means. The tool includes an aluminum mandrel with a surrounding sleeve of heat shrinkable Teflon on which a heating element of high resistance insulated wire is wound so that the sleeve provides back-up insulation between the wire and mandrel. The mandrel is provided with a bore which receives the tip portion of a conventional ball point pen, thus forming a heated stylus. The heated stylus assembly is disposed within a hollow frusto-conical support and is secured therein by a hardenable mixture forming heat insulation between the assembly and the support.

Abstract: A combination waxing device and edge sharpener for skis having a combined file guide and waxing surface; the file being adjustably securable to a lateral side substantially perpendicular to the guide surface. A wax container is provided on the opposite side of the device from the guide and waxing surface and channels are provided through which the melted wax is delivered to the waxing surface to be applied to the skis. Two means of heating the device are provided to melt the wax placed in the container; one is an alcohol burner of predetermined proportions which heats the device through at least one flue extending through the device adjacent the wax container, and the second means of heating is an electric heating rod which may be placed within the flue so as to provide continuous heat to the device for extended use.

Abstract: An elongated handle having a square cross-section is adapted at one end to receive a swivel electrical power supply means and at the other end to receive a detachable hollow, metal housing which encloses a heating element. The housing is elongated about its longitudinal axis and is formed with a plurality of flat side surface portions disposed angularly with respect to each other and joined at parallel edges which are slightly rounded for imparting a temporary bend to wet hairs held over the rounded edges under tension. A flipper arm type hair holding means is pivotably mounted to the handle and has a blade portion which overlies the upper flat side surface of the housing for sandwiching strands of hair therebetween.

Abstract: A hand-held mechanized electrically heated windshield cleaner for removing snow, ice and other material from a motor vehicle windshield includes a hollow pistol-like housing having a gripping portion and a barrel portion extending at right angles thereto. A bearing member at the front of the barrel portion slidably supports an outwardly extending driving shaft. A scraper blade of resilient rubber-like material is secured to the outer end of the shaft. An electric motor in the gripping portion reciprocatingly drives the shaft through an arrangement including a disk rotated by the motor and eccentrically connected to the shaft by means of a connecting rod. An electric heating coil is provided in the blade adjacent the edge thereof. The heating coil and motor are energized by an electric cable adapted to be plugged into the vehicle cigarette lighter socket.

Abstract: An electric hair curling iron having vapor generating means includes a handle portion having an elongated hair curling body extending from an end thereof. Stationary thermostatically controlled electric heating element and a movable heat conducting means in heat exchange relation therewith are arranged in the body. A liquid reservoir is supported at the end of the hair curling body and includes liquid transfer wick spaced from the heat conducting means to define therebetween a vaporization space. Actuator means are provided on the handle for selectively moving the heat conducting means into and out of engagement with the wick to effect generation of vapor in the vaporization space. The vapor produced is passed exteriorly through openings in the body into contact with the hair wound on the curling body.

Abstract: A portable electric curling iron has a hollow handle having an open end. An electrically heated hair curling member is arranged for telescopic movement between a retracted storage position within the handle and an extended use position wherein the member projects from the handle through the open end thereof. Movable electrical connector plug means are provided on the iron for connecting the electric heating means associated with the hair curling member to a power source. Means are provided for automatically moving the connector plug means between a retracted plug position wherein the plug means is substantially entirely within the handle and an extended plug position wherein the plug projects from the handle in response to the telescopic movement of the hair curling member into and out of the handle.