The West Bend Company

Focus Products Group, LLC

Premark Wb Holdings, Inc.

Howard W Kaney

Alistair Hugh Tatham Mackay

William C Cesaroni

Scott H Micoley

Cooking appliance with low profile control panel

A cooking appliance configured with a programmable controller within a heating unit. The programmable controller is configured to control a plurality of functions of the cooking appliance. The controller is located in the base of the appliance and is in communication with a control panel that transmits a plurality of signals to the controller indicative of a user input. The control panel can be arranged nearly flush with an outer surface of the cooking appliance.

Programmable cooker

Cooker

Disclosed is a terminal block especially suited for rapidly wiring small appliances. The block has an insulating housing holding a plurality of electrically-conductive connectors and in the improvement, at least a first connector is bifurcated to define a pair of jaw-like wire-grasping structures for electrically connecting a pair of wires to one another. The structures are separated by a tongue-like barrier for easy guided insertion of a single wire into each structure. The block is also disclosed in combination with an appliance enclosure having a platform supporting the terminal block. The platform has at least one block retention stud, the terminal block includes at least one surface deformation and the stud and the deformation coactively engage to restrain movement of the block.

Terminal block for small appliances

Hand-held mixer

Appliance enclosure and related terminal block

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West Bend, WI, United States of America

Howard W Kaney