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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4698916 | Device for roasting coffee beans, especially green coffee beans in small quantities A method for roasting coffee beans in a roasting chamber, which includes depositing a quantity of coffee beans in the roasting chamber being small in proportion to the volume of the roasting chamber, directing a heatable air current through the roasting c... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4645911 | Heating device for radiation heating units heated by electric energy A heating device for radiation heating units heated by electric energy includes a radiation heating region and a combination of high-temperature radiation heating elements and normal-temperature radiation heating elements disposed in the heating region.... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4596337 | Beverage vessel with handle A beverage vessel, includes a receptacle formed of vitreous material, a handle, and a layer of adhesive material fastening said handle to said receptacle.... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4533070 | Variable volume metering valve for dispensing beverage concentrates Metering valve, including a substantially vertically-disposed tubular housing, the housing having an upper and a lower end, the lower end of the housing having a valve seat formed thereon and an outlet opening formed therein, a cap being integral with the... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4496078 | Container, especially a disposable container for beverage concentrates, with a preferably magnetically-actuated reusable measurer attached to the opening of the container Container assembly for beverage concentrates, including a container having an opening formed therein, a carrier disposed in the opening, a membrane-type seal disposed in the opening sealing the carrier to the container, a reusable measuring device having ... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4496080 | Automatic household beverage dispenser Automatic household beverage dispenser including an equipment cabinet having a front and defining a mixing space with a dispensing station and an equipment space formed therein, detachable and replaceable functional parts including supply tanks for bevera... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4493979 | Control circuit assembly for heating elements in cooking plates A control circuit assembly, includes a cooking plate having at least two individual cooking regions being electrically connectible in common for cooking together, heating elements being disposed in the cooking regions of the cooking plate and having input... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4482800 | Circuit arrangement for heating elements in cooking surfaces of ranges Circuit arrangement for heating elements of cooking surfaces of ranges having at least two individual cooking regions with a respective control device for generating variable heat capacities, the individual cooking regions being connectible together for j... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4478057 | Continuously operating an adsorption refrigeration plant, especially for operation by waste heat of combustion engines or the like Continuously operating adsorption refrigeration plant, comprising a gas-tight housing having at least one expeller chamber and at least one adsorption chamber disposed therein sequentially following each other in a close loop, sealing gates disposed betwe... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4473002 | Electric coffee machine with a centrifugal filter Coffee machine with a centrifugal filter releasably coupled suring operation with a motor shaft and receiving brewing water via a transporter disposed thereon and rotatable therewith including a plurality of transport channels for brewing water distribute... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4462645 | Cooling appliance, especially a household refrigerator or the like Cooling appliance, including a housing having an opening formed therein, at least one door for sealing the opening, at least one first bearing part fixed on the housing in vicinity of the opening, at least one second bearing part being movably disposed on... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4455701 | Method of varying a manually adjustable program course of an automatically operating washing machine Automatically operating washing machines adjust the washing time, the wash water temperature and the motion, i.e. agitation, of the laundry based on predetermined cycles, such as wash, spin, or rinse, etc. An adjustable program course controls these cycle... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4448464 | Cooling appliance, especially a household refrigerator or the like Cooling appliance, including a housing having an opening formed therein, a solid outer layer, an inner lining having a surface facing the outer layer, and hard synthetic foam being foamed in situ between said inner lining and outer layer, at least one loc... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4431030 | Fluid timing element, especially a pneumatic timing element for use in household appliances, such as electric toasters A fluid timing element, comprising a nozzle, a needle being at least partly insertable into the nozzle forming a choke gap therebetween, at least one of the nozzle and the needle being axially tapered, the nozzle and the needle being axially movable relat... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430578 | Device for the input of adjustment values in electronic switching systems Multistage switching device for the input of adjustment values in electronic switching systems, including a counter circuit having counting stage inputs for counting orders of magnitude and oppositely counting directional inputs, an input switching part b... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4419653 | Variable resistance switch Variable resistance switch of a continuously-variable resistance pressure-dependent measurement sensor for triggering a switching operation of an electrical evaluating circuit through a compressive loading, including an elastic layer being formed of elast... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4412389 | Method of automatically controlling the drying process in a laundry-drying system, and equipment for performing the method Method and device of automatically controlling the drying process of a laundry drying system until a given desired degree of dryness is reached, including heating means, a drive for the drying system, a control device for controlling the drive and heating... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4411143 | Laundry treatment machine Laundry treatment machine including a housing, a carrier disposed in the housing, a laundry drum rotatably supported by the carrier, the carrier having parts thereof being exposed to loads affected by the weight of the drum, electro-mechanical transducers... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4357522 | Baking oven Baking oven including chamber walls defining a baking oven chamber, a door for closing off the chamber, a broiler heating element and at least one further heating element being disposed in vicinity of opposite chamber walls, and air blowing and guiding me... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4353223 | Refrigerator with a large refrigeration chamber cooled by natural convection Refrigerator having a large volume refrigeration chamber cooled by natural convection, including a defrostable finned evaporator disposed in upright position in the chamber, the evaporator being subdivided into at least two sections connected together in ... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4341949 | Electrical heating apparatus with a heating element of PTC material Electrical heating apparatus, including a frame formed of insulating material having an opening formed therethrough, a heating element formed of positive temperature coefficient material having two opposing outer surfaces and being disposed in the opening... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4336509 | Oscillation generator for an ultrasonic liquid atomizer The oscillation generator includes an oscillator circuit, a push-pull amplifier with inductive positive feedback connected in the circuit, a piezoceramic atomizer vibrator element, and a load-dependent regenerative feedback coupling connected to the circu... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4325299 | Household appliance, especially a garbage compactor Household garbage compactor, including a press or stamper for executing a piston stroke for given short periods of time in a container disposed in a frame holding garbage to be compacted, a pressure plate for compacting the garbage, and a device for easil... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4324974 | Heating element assembly with a PTC electric heating element Heating device with a heating element of a material with positive temperature coefficient, of which two opposite sides are contacted by planar electrodes and give off the heat produced through the electrodes and planar sheets of insulating material coveri... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4315741 | Hand-operated instrument for dental care or tooth treatment Hand-operated instrument for dental care or tooth treatment having an electric drive, including a hand-grip portion, a slender instrument neck portion having one end integral with the hand-grip portion and a free end, a drive motor of the electric drive a... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4303817 | Microwave oven Microwave oven having an oven muffle connected to a high frequency oscillator and a rotatable shaft brought through an opening in a metallic muffle wall with clearance. To prevent microwave energy which is brought into the cooking chamber or muffle from a... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4294407 | Atomizer for fluids, preferably an inhalation device Atomizer for fluid, including an atomizer housing, a unitary fluid container removably inserted in the housing, an atomizing element activatable by ultrasonic flexural vibrations being disposed in the housing, means integral with the fluid container for t... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4270282 | Housed clothes dryer In a housing, a clothes dryer wherein dampness in washed clothes is expelled by warm air sweeping therethrough, the air being drawn in at least partly from the environment through openings formed in the housing and heated and, after absorbing the dampness... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4242116 | Magnetic valve, especially three-way valve as a switching device for multi-temperature cooling apparatus with only one refrigeration machine A three-way magnetic valve as a switching device for refrigerators with two different temperature compartments operated with only one refrigeration machine, has an axial bore hole in a tubular housing with an inlet to the bore hole of the housing and an o... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4241587 | Refrigerating apparatus, especially refrigerator or freezer Apparatus and method for storing material at and below a permissible upper temperature below the freezing point in a refrigeration chamber containing a heat exchanger and a thermostat to activate a refrigeration to supply coolant to the heat exchanger to ... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4217763 | Asynchronous motor-driven machine having variable torque demand, such as household refrigerator compressors In an assembly of a work-performing machine having variable torque demand driven by an asynchronous motor, a phase-angle control device for varying the operating voltage of the asynchronous motor in accordance with the respectively required torque, the as... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4215486 | Circuit for controlling a dryer-program switching device Circuit for controlling the program timer of a laundry dryer as a function of the moisture-dependent resistance of the laundry. A storage capacitor charged from a d-c voltage source together with laundry resistance resulting from wet laundry bridging two ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4214148 | Indicator for the extent of clarification of waterheaters in electric household appliances Calcification sufficient to cause material impairment of heat transfer is indicated in a water heater in an electric appliance, such as a coffee maker. The water heater has a first and a second temperature-dependent switch thermally coupled thereto. The f... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4213033 | Electric toaster Electric toaster with a toasting chamber which has heaters on at least two broad sides and is terminated by crosswise walls on two narrow sides, wherein the heaters have insulating parts supporting heater conductors and are supported by the crosswise wall... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4213031 | Heat sealing roller having a temperature self-controlled PTC heating resistor for welding thermoplastic foils A welding device for welding together at least two superimposed foils of thermoplastic synthetic material includes an electrically heated temperature-controlled sealing roller and a counterpressure organ cooperating with roller to form a heated zone in wh... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4210124 | Dish for holding food to be heated in a microwave cooking chamber Dish for holding food to be heated in a microwave cooking chamber in which the dish bowl provided for holding the food is made to obtain high absorption of high-frequency radiation and the handles and/or base are made to obtain low absorption of high-freq... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4206341 | Adjustable temperature warming plate for electric coffee maker An adjustable temperature warming plate for an electric coffee maker in which a fixedly positioned metal hot plate has an electric heating element disposed beneath and adjacent the hot plate with the supporting means for the electric heating element permi... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4205598 | Electric coffee maker An electric coffee maker having a coffee pot in the form of a Dewar flask supported in a shock-proof outer housing surrounding the flask. A fresh water container and a coffee filter are disposed above the coffee pot. An electric flow-through heater is dis... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4188865 | Electric toaster An electric toaster having a housing, a bread carrier therein, heating elements in the housing, a pneumatic timer switch having a cylinder and piston movable relative to one another with a spring urging upward movement, a throttle opening for escape of ai... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4188807 | Automatic washing machine for textiles having separate containers for washing substances, meters and common pre-mix channel for metered substances Washing process for textiles in an automatic washing machine, with application of active washing substances, structural substances and bleaching agents, involving loading of the textiles in the washing machine, adding water, agitating the textiles in the ... | 02/19/1980 |
