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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6864467 | Heater for gaseous media An electric heater for gaseous media with at least one support plate and at least one helix of corrugated, electric resistance heating wire wound continuously around the support plate and whose turns are held by means of heating wire bend-offs on the longitudinal ed... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6732450 | Electrothermal rack of hair dryer An electrothermal rack of a hair dryer includes a main body including a plurality of support wings each having a mediate portion formed with a positioning section formed with a plurality of inner insertion recesses. Each of the support wings has an outer side formed... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6013903 | Flame reaction material carrier and method of manufacturing flame reaction member A flame reaction member for a gas appliance has a flame reaction material carrier having a coiled or looped flame reaction material holding portion and flame reaction material carried on the flame reaction material holding portion. When manufacturing such... | 01/11/2000 |
| 5910266 | Helical electrical heater The invention is in the field of electrical resistance heaters, especially heaters for tubes, pipes, or flexible hose. More particularly, the invention is directed to an electrical heater formed as a strip that is permanently set in the shape of a helix. ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5235311 | Magnetic variable resistor A magnetic variable resistor has an elongated band of electrically resistive magnetic material, with the side edges tapered to a sharp point so that the skin effect causes current to migrate to the edges to create greater resistance. A layer of insulating... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5132517 | Electric glow element An electric glow element has a heating-conductor coiled band inside of a glow-coil dish, with a mechanically strong clamped connection between the coiled band and the glow-coil dish. The connection has good electrical conductivity, and is formed by a firs... | 07/21/1992 |
| 4789773 | Electrical radiant heater for heating heating surfaces An electric radiant heater (11) for heating a glass ceramic cooking surface (12) contains a dish-shaped insulator (14), to whose inner bottom surface (18) are fixed heater coils (20). The heater coils have an oval cross-section and are pressed by their na... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4754124 | Resistance heaters A resistance heater for performing heat treatment of the braze-affected area of a metallic sleeve attached by brazing within and to a metallic tube, comprises a metal tube (10) of which a portion (16) is formed with a spiral groove (11) which penetrates t... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4319216 | Discharge resistor A discharge resistor adapted to be mounted on a rotatable shaft of a dynamo-electric device comprises a pair of spirally wound, insulated resistor elements and means for supporting these elements approximately coaxially with the shaft. Each of the resisto... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4278877 | Electrical heating unit with flattened embedded heating coil Resistance heating coils, flattened longitudinally along two sides to have generally oval cross-sections, are embedded in situ in a lightweight ceramic fiber insulating body adjacent to and extending along beneath the surface of the insulating body. Elect... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4238636 | Heater for resistance furnaces The present invention relates to a heater, primarily for pressure furnaces for extremely high temperatures for isostatic compression. The resistance elements of the heater are arranged between two metal rings at different levels which are supported by con... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4230933 | Electric air heating element An electric air heating element is designed for positioning in the cylindrical or conical outlet tube of a hair dryer. It consists of a star-shaped coil carrier in the shape of four fins extending radially from a common center line in the axis of the outl... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4130815 | Formed heating ribbon and coil An electric igniting element as used in automobile cigar lighters, jet engine igniters and like devices, comprising a spirally wound tight coil made of metal heater ribbon which is transversely formed to have a cross-sectional configuration roughly simila... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4122329 | Electrical air heating appliance An electric air heating appliance includes a housing defining an air flow path in which is positioned a resistance heater assembly which includes a plurality of air vanes for reducing air swirling. The heater assembly includes a semi-rigid assembly of mic... | 10/24/1978 |
| 3991298 | Heating unit for a ceramic top electric range A heating element assembly for a ceramic top electric range is disclosed. The assembly includes a base pod comprising a block of insulating material having a recess in one surface. A grooved path is formed in the recess in the form of a spiral and a thin,... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3984616 | High temperature furnace heater A high temperature unitary electrical resistance heater which is mechanically supported throughout its active length but spaced from a refractory base with the heating element being substantially free of the supporting structure to provide an efficient he... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3984615 | Electrical resistance furnace heater A high temperature unitary electrical resistance heater which is mechanically supported throughout its active length but spaced from a refractory base with the heating element being substantially free of the supporting structure to provide an efficient he... | 10/05/1976 |
