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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8106336 | Food warming mat and method for making A non-curling flexible food warmer with evenly heated surface for use in table-top banquet style settings with an integrated temperature control and with transversely oriented heating elements such that it may be readily rolled up for storage without damage to the h... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7345259 | Circuit arrangement and method for preventing overheating of a cooking appliance The invention relates to a method and a circuit arrangement for preventing overheating of a cooking appliance. The arrangement includes a power circuit with a heating element and a control circuit with a coupling switch. The control circuit and the power circuit are... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7279661 | Heating apparatus A heating apparatus for a semiconductor producing system is provided, including a heater having a mounting face, an opposed back face, a first resistance heating element, a second resistance heating element provided along substantially the same plane as the first he... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7132626 | Radiant electric heater A radiant electric heater includes at least first (7) and second (11) adjacent heating zones. The first heating zone (7) includes a first heating element portion (5) and the second heating zone includes a second heating element portion ( | 11/07/2006 |
| 7133605 | Heater for scented candles Disclosed herein is a device for heating a scented candle so as to release scent therefrom in the absence of an open flame. The device includes a housing for retaining the candle. The housing is fabricated from a material having a low thermal conductivity. The devic... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7075042 | Solid state heater assembly, heater subassembly and methods of assembly A solid state heater uses a heater subassembly employing a terminal block, terminals and a PTCR or NTCR heater. The terminals engage and make electrical contact with the heater, thus eliminating the need for a rigid heater housing. The heater subassembly can be form... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7053339 | Ceramic heater A ceramic heater includes a ceramic substrate having a heating face, a resista nce heating element embedded in the substrate and a terminal electrically connected with the resistance heating element. The resistance heating element includes first and second coiled wi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7030342 | Electrical heating assembly An electrical heating assembly (2) comprises a glass-ceramic cooking plate (4) having an upper surface (6) for receiving a cooking vessel (8) and a lower surface (10). A radiant electric heater (12) incorporating at least on... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6995343 | Method and device for limiting and/or controlling the surface temperature of a hob A method and device for limiting and/or controlling the surface temperature of a hob having a ceramic cooking surface. The hob is heated by an energy source which includes a temperature limiter with a variable switching temperature. The switching temperature of the ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6940048 | Radiant electric heater incorporating a temperature sensor assembly A radiant electric heater (2) is arranged for location underneath and against a cooking plate (12) and incorporates a heating element (14) spaced from the cooking plate and a temperature sensor assembly (26). The temperature sensor assembly (26) comprises a beam (28... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6932753 | Food serving paperboard container pressing apparatus employing cast-in electrical heaters A pressing apparatus for producing a food service paperboard container from a paperboard blank so that the paperboard container possesses an overturned rim provided with folds includes a first die and a second die that are movable relative to one another. The first ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6919538 | Method for thermally treating substrates To increase the temperature homogeneity on the surface of a substrate that is to be thermally treated, a method for thermally treating substrates is provided, according to which the substrate is heated by several separately controllable heating elements. A desired-v... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6903309 | Cooking appliance having concealed cooking feature A cooking appliance shown in the form of a cooktop includes a upper cooking zone and a concealed lower cooking zone. The upper cooking is defined by a pivotally mounted frame portion within which is arranged a plurality of heating elements. Located below the upper c... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6875957 | Glass or glass ceramic cooking top with an electrical heating unit A glass or glass ceramic cooking top 1 has on its underside 6 at least one heating unit 7. The heating unit 7 is in flat, heat-conducting contact with the underside 6, and contains an electrical resistance heating element exhibitin... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6204488 | Sealing terminal A sealing terminal includes internal connection lines which are connected to heating elements and external connection lines via which power is supplied. A quartz glass body includes a plurality of grooves in its outer surface to retain the internal and ex... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6101969 | Plasma-generating electrode device, an electrode-embedded article, and a method of manufacturing thereof A plasma generating electrode device including a substrate 31 made of a dense ceramic, and an electrode 55 buried in said substrate 31, wherein said electrode 55 is isolated from a setting face of said substrate 31, and plasma is generated over said subst... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5935469 | Insulating staple for holding the resistive member of a heating element in place A heating unit (H) for a cook top includes a thin and relatively fragile resistive heating element like, but not necessarily limited to, a ribbon (E). The heating element is mounted on the upper surface of a cake (I) of microporous insulation material. Th... | 08/10/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5895595 | Apparatus for making beverages The apparatus for making beverages comprises a kettle 15, a stand 10 and separable electrical connector means 16a,b to automatically connect the kettle with an electrical power supply connector in the stand when the kettle is placed on the stand; the stan... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5573690 | Ceramic articles Ceramic articles such as ceramic heaters, ceramic static chucks or the like include a substrate 1, a functional member such as a resistance heating element 2 or the like embedded in the substrate 1, a terminal 12 and a conductive wire 5A arranged therebet... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5497883 | Warm food isothermal container, particularly for collective catering An isothermal container for warm foodstuffs, comprising a tray of thermally insulating material provided with recesses housing respective food vessels, and a cover of thermally insulating material detachably secured onto the tray. For each of the food ves... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5432320 | Cooking range Cooking ranges with cooking surfaces in the form of a glass ceramic cover include functional elements such as operation and signal elements integrated into the cooking range. For improved utility and maintenance these functional elements are combined in a... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5347104 | Heater control circuit A heater control circuit is provided to control the heating condition of a cooking oven by means of a triac. In the heater control circuit, an electrical heater is incorporated. The heater further has a switch which is electrically connected in series wit... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5347609 | Method and assembly for converting a mobile gas range to combination gas-electric range A conversion assembly for converting a gas burner of a multi-burner gas operated cooking range of a recreational vehicle to an electric burner for operation by the electrical generator of the vehicle or by an external campground electrical power supply so... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5189282 | Thermal pads for heatable turntable A heatable turntable is provided for efficiently warming and serving food. A deck is rotatably mounted on a base. Electrical current is supplied from a power supply in the deck to thermal pads located in the deck via wires connected to sliding pole pieces... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5153412 | Electric hotplate In an electric hotplate (1) flexible connecting leads (22), whose outer ends form connecting members (29) for connection to appliance lines, are so connected in positionally secured manner to short, bent pins (13) that the connection points or junctions (... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5153413 | Electric radiant heating element A radiant heating element (11) contains on the surface (16) of an insulating support (14) heating resistors (18), which emanate from terminals (20), which are arranged in regular spacings on the outer circumference of the heating area (21) and are connect... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5122639 | Electric hotplate An electric hotplate has leads projecting from the underside and whose ends form connecting pins and provided with plugging pieces in the form of flat plugging tongues, connected by plugging connections to matching plugs of apparatus lines. On the pluggin... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5105066 | Device comprising a heating sample carrier A device that includes a heating sample carrier which has a carrying surface, an electrical heating system and a frame support for receiving a frame. The electrical heating system is formed of a disk of a refractory insulating material.... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5087807 | Electric hotplate On the cover of the underside of an electric hotplate is fixed by riveting or the like a lateral connecting plate. A passage or some other functional part is so inserted in the openings of the cover and lateral connecting plate, that it is in each case po... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5086211 | Electric hotplate To a lower coverplate of an electric hotplate a side plate is fitted, onto which can subsequently be mounted an insulator by means of a locking connection. The insulator receives connecting leads from the hotplate and corresponding connections, such as fl... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5084608 | Retractable burner for an electric range A device for raising and dropping the burner element in an electric range wherein cookware is supported upon a plurality of rigid posts and the burner element is raised and dropped in a plane parallel to the plane comprised by the bottom surface of the co... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5019682 | Separable electrical cooker An electronics cooker of a separating type comprises a heating portion mounted on the upper of the cooker body and provided with at least one oven having the heating coil, an adjusting portion mounted adjacent to the heating portion with the air ventilati... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4899033 | Electric hotplate connecting piece For the in particular fully automated electrical connection of electric hotplates (2) to connecting lines (15) a connecting piece with an insulator (18) is provided, which is provided outside two remote end faces (25, 26) with pin-like connecting parts (2... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4888470 | Sealed electric hotplate A sealed electric hotplate can be simply fitted by lateral insertion into a hob. For this purpose a hotplate with a cast metal body is surrounded by a very wide trim ring, which is provided with centering projections. The wide ring is separately grounded,... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4871902 | Electric hotplate and apparatus for the connection thereof In an electric hotplate (1b), the connecting portions (19b) for the connection of appliance lines (34) provided on the underside thereof can be transferred about articulations, namely bendable or pivotable joints or hinges, e.g. in the form of springs (71... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4831999 | Cooking and baking device to be built in A cooking and baking device to be built in comprising an oven and a cooktop, the oven comprising: a frame, a cabinet-shaped oven unit connected with the frame and provided with a hinged door and an oven control-member connected with the frame and carrying... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4818846 | Electric hotplate and apparatus for the connection thereof The present invention relates to an apparatus for connecting appliance lines to cooking plates, hobs or hotplates. Our of the bottom of the electric hotplate, connecting pins (19b) extend for connection to connecting members (33) of a connecting piece (31... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4808797 | Electric hotplate A hotplate (11) has a flat, plate-like bushing (22) for connecting leads (19). The bushing (22) is directly fitted in a cover plate (20) of the hotplate (11) by means of retaining clips (34). The connecting leads (19) are threaded through the bushing, whi... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4797536 | Temperature control apparatus for a waterbed A system for controlling the temperature of a waterbed and preventing overheating of a waterbed heater. The system places temperature control sensing means and/or replaceable thermal fuse means in thermal contact with a waterbed heater mounted on thermall... | 01/10/1989 |
