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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6653925 | Method for insulating leads of thermal fuse with insulating tubes and thermal fuse therefor There is provided a method for insulating leads of a thermal fuse with an insulating tube that can reduce the quantity of the adhesive and prevent the defect of appearance and the lowering of the value of the product, by applying an adhesive on the circum... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6281780 | Electrical apparatus having improved electrical contact and electrical contact used therewith An electric apparatus (10) according to the present invention comprises electrically separated first and second terminals (14, 13), a first contact (16) that is connected electrically to the first terminal (14) within a casing (11), a second contact (15) ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 5880666 | Fuse with press-connecting terminals and wire cutter A fuse 15 includes a housing 2 of an insulative resin having a lid 13 and a housing body 11, and a fuse body 1 having a melting portion formed between a pair of press-connecting terminals 4 and 5 arranged in a staggered manner, the fuse body being receive... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5790008 | Surface-mounted fuse device with conductive terminal pad layers and groove on side surfaces A thin film surface-mount fuse having two material subassemblies. The first subassembly includes a fusible link, its supporting substrate with a groove on side surfaces and a plurality of conductive terminal pad layers. The second subassembly includes a p... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5530417 | Thermal cutoff with floating contact member A thermal cutoff having a mushroom-shaped floating contact member with an enlarged head and an elongated shank. The outwardly facing end of the enlarged head has a centrally located depression for reducing the area of the head end surface that engages a s... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5473303 | Electrical lead An elongated electrical lead has a first part of a hard and brittle arc quenching metal integrally joined to an easily bendable second part of a ductile metal. The lead is used in a thermal cutoff with the first part being inside of the thermal cutoff hou... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5262753 | Pyrotechnic controlled electrical switch with conductive foil bridging contact disk An electrical switch with pyrotechnic control includes a housing containing a pyrotechnic composition and at least two contacts applicable, for example, to fire an explosive charge in a military application such as a warhead. The switch includes a thin fo... | 11/16/1993 |
| 4434415 | Electrical control module for a current-limiting fuse A reusable control module mountable to a power-cartridge-operated interrupting module which includes a normally closed switch in shunt with a fuse. The control module houses a control circuit which ignites the power cartridge to open the switch. The contr... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4382774 | Spark gap switch A flashlamp unit for individual and sequential firing of flashlamps includes a pair of flashlamps connected in an electrical circuit with a radiation-responsive N/O arc gap switch in series connection with one of said pair of flashlamps and including an a... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4362969 | High intensity discharge lamp including arc extinguishing means An arc extinguishing means for a high intensity discharge lamp comprises a meltable fuse wire a portion of which is surrounded by a refractory hollow sleeve of larger diameter than the fuse wire. The remaining volume of the sleeve is substantially filled ... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4297667 | Fusible electric cable protector A fusible electric cable protector has a casing that defines a first internal space containing the fusible elements and a granular arc-quenching filler. At least one of the pair of terminal elements closing the casing is conductively connected to one conn... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4297669 | Thermal cut-outs and to the method of assembling a multiplicity of such thermal cut-outs A thermal cut-out which is adapted to open an electrical circuit in response to an excessive rise in temperature associated with the circuit protected by said cut-out. Said cut-out comprising a hollow body of electrically insulating material and having an... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4150266 | Miniature pyrotechnic squib switch, single pole, normally open A piston, backed by a resilient disc, both slidable within a cylindrical case, is provided, on its leading end, with a penetrable conductor pellet, sheathed within an insulator cap. Upon firing of an explosive charge of disc form, arranged behind the pist... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4144418 | Voltage responsive switch A voltage sensitive switch is provided characterized by an irreversible change in resistance from a high resistance state greater than one megohm to a low resistance state less than one thousand ohms and comprising a mixture of substantially pure grade co... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4109227 | Contact assembly for high voltage fuse In a high voltage expulsion type fuse, a fusible element is connected between an arcing rod and a contact element. The arcing rod is biased for movement by a spring, and when the fuse is assembled, the contact element is pulled through the fuse compressin... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4016400 | Overheating safety device for electrical lighters A safety device for preventing deleterious overheating of an electrical lighter such as used in motor vehicles provides a short circuit in the electrical power supply circuit to the lighter upon occurrence of a dangerous overheating condition so that a ci... | 04/05/1977 |
| 3969065 | Switching devices for photoflash unit A multiple flashlamp array having a plurality of lamps fired individually and in sequence which includes a plurality of static solid switching devices capable of being easily activated by radiant energy generated during flashing of the lamps. Initially, t... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3951582 | Switching devices for photoflash unit A photoflash unit is designed to have a plurality of lamps fired individually and in sequence includes a plurality of switching devices capable of being easily activated by radiant energy generated during flashing of the lamps. Initially, the switches hav... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3944961 | Mechanically improved contacts for radiation switches having material that converts from electrically non-conductive to conductive The reliability of radiation switches is improved in accordance with this invention by mechanically modifying the contact members of the switch structure to reduce the heat sinking effectiveness of the switch contact members.... | 03/16/1976 |
