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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7049552 | Ventilation system for a cooking appliance A cooking appliance includes a frame having a bottom wall for supporting heating elements and a peripheral side portion that extends from and about an outer periphery of the bottom wall so as to define a chassis upon which is arranged a cooktop. The peripheral side ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 5900175 | Radiant cooking unit A radiant cooking unit comprises a heat insulating material forming a heating element carrier to which electrical heating elements are secured. It is surrounded by a ring-shaped bordering element of a heat insulating material relatively rigid in design. B... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5892205 | Heater Connecting conductors located within at least one heating field for heating conductors are configured so that they do not luminate in operation and are not bowed or shifted out of place by thermal loading. For this purpose the conductor is corrugated and ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 4872835 | Hot chuck assembly for integrated circuit wafers A hot chuck assembly characterized by a platen suspended over a base assembly by four, equally spaced mounting assemblies. The suspension points on the platen are provided as close as possible to its upper, wafer support surface so that thermal expansion ... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4663517 | Electric barbeque cooker An electric barbeque cooker has an electric heating unit dimensioned to fit within a cooker bowl. The heating unit is connected to a power supply and it is mounted within the bowl for movement between a horizontal position and an a nonhorizontal position.... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4476379 | Easily cleaned and serviced waffle iron An easily cleaned and serviced belgian style waffle iron has a cast aluminum base provided with a hollow interior opening downwardly between support legs of the base, an electrical power source component including a housing which is removably secured with... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4386557 | Heating apparatus for preparation of precooked frozen waffles A precooked, frozen waffle heating apparatus including first and second metallic castings or molds having opposed confronting faces conforming to the reciprocal of a waffle pattern and contained within upper and lower portions of a housing defining a holl... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4381444 | Range surface unit receptacle The spadelike terminal pins of a conventional plug-in surface heating element for a domestic range of the electric type are received in a socket member hingedly mounted to the range by a clip structure including a spring-biased pin joint. The clip structu... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4206345 | Electrically heatable home appliance An electrically heatable broiler, browner and waffle maker comprises a base part including a hot plate and a top part also including a hot plate, the two parts being interconnected by an articulated hinge joint including an extendable linking member and a... | 06/03/1980 |
