A flame simulating assembly including light source(s), a screen to which light from the light source(s) is directed, to provide images of flickering flames thereon, and a rotatable flicker element for reflecting the light from the light sources toward the screen. The flicker element includes a number of paddle elements located in respective predetermined locations on the rod. Each paddle element includes one or more body portions with reflective surfaces thereon. The reflective surface includes a central region and a perimeter region at least partially located around the central region, the perimeter region at least partially defining a perimeter plane. The central region is substantially non-planar and the perimeter region is at least partially planar. The perimeter region includes a middle part and side parts, partially separated by channels.

An electric range may include a case, a bracket accommodated in the case, a fan disposed in the bracket, a leg coupled to a lower portion of the case and configured to contact an upper surface of a countertop that supports the electric range, and a guide panel disposed at a lower side of the bracket and configured to guide air that flows in a gap formed by the leg.

A steam-based faux fireplace comprising a boiler configured to receive a fluid and generate steam, and a manifold configured to receive the steam from the boiler and emit the steam to generate a steam plume at an output. The manifold has a conduit configured to route the fluid about the manifold to heat the fluid before being routed to the boiler. The manifold is already heated due to the emitted steam. This configuration pre-heats the fluid before being presented to the boiler, allowing a smaller low power boiler to be used because the manifold acts as a fluid pre-heater. A very realistic faux flame with a significant length is generated from the low power boiler. In addition, the manifold includes a deflector configured to receive the impinging steam from the output, causing the steam to lose some energy and billow about the deflector and then illuminated to create a realistically looking flame.

An electronic device and a system are to be provided in order to allow, at any time, monitoring of a cooking state (as a system state) of a product cooked preferably in a liquid. This is achieved by means of a hermetically sealed body with an electronic arrangement accommodated in the body. The arrangement comprises an electronic assembly (10) with a model-forming arithmetic unit (11) and a temperature sensor (20) adapted and arranged to measure an ambient temperature of the body. In addition, an electric power source (30) and a radio interface (50) with an antenna (52) are provided, the model-forming arithmetic unit simulating a model of a cooking behavior of a foodstuff to be cooked. Information on the current cooking state of the foodstuff is transmitted from the transmission unit (52) to a receiver (a smart device) spaced apart from the hermetically sealed body.

A flame simulating assembly including one or more light sources for producing light, a screen to which the light from the light source(s) is directed, to provide a number of images of flames thereon viewable via a front surface of the screen, and a rotatable flicker element. The flicker element includes an elongate rod defined by an axis thereof about which the rod is rotatable. The rod is positioned at a preselected elevation above a base of the flame simulating assembly. The flicker element also includes a number of paddle elements located on the rod, for intermittently reflecting the light from the light sources from the paddle elements to the screen respectively as the flicker element rotates about the axis, to provide the images of flames on the screen. The light sources are located substantially at the preselected elevation and proximal to the flicker element.

The present invention relates to a method of simulating flames/smoke using a flames/smoke simulating device or system.

The present invention relates to a process of making power-saving electric stoves, particularly having a large size and outer shapes similar to the conformations of traditional Tyrolean heaters or stoves, while having a very light weight and being easily movable to multiple locations of a house. The main characteristic of the present invention is that it includes making a hollow stove body, particularly having a large size, from expanded polystyrene or a similar thermoplastic polymer, with the application of an electric resistor, particularly a constant-power, and hence low-power consuming heating cable arranged around its outer surface in one or more coil loops with the interposition of a layer of adhesive material with at least one thread formed therein for supporting the resistor, with contiguous insulating grooves, and with later application of a final coating layer, made e.g. of tire-resistant cement mortar, whose outer surface may be provided with decorative designs or finishes and ornaments made of wood or other materials, which designs and ornaments may be similar to those formed on the outer surfaces of traditional Tyrolean stoves, whereas the basement of the hollow body is preferably supported by a smooth metal plate, allowing displacement thereof to any location of the house, proximate to a power outlet.

A combined furniture and heating device having a concealable electric fireplace insert installed within a fireplace compartment of a furniture apparatus is provided. The electric fireplace insert has a front surface from which simulated flames are viewable when an opening of the fireplace compartment is uncovered so that the furniture apparatus is configured in its open configuration. The furniture apparatus includes a concealing panel removably installable over the opening configure the device in a concealed configuration so that the electric fireplace insert and its simulated flames viewable at its front surface are at least partially concealed. Power to a heating apparatus of the electric fireplace insert is turned on and off by a disabling device as the concealing panel is alternated between the open and concealed configurations. The disabling device can include a switch or a thermistor.

A thin faux fireplace that can be installed in a wall, such as a 2?4 wall, having a faux flame viewable from both sides of the faux fireplace. A transparent material, such as glass, is coated with a thin film having nano sized particles, and an ultra short-throw projector displays the faux flame on the thin film. A user can see object on the other side of the faux fireplace, and also view the faux flame on the thin film rooms on both sides of the transparent material.

An electric flame burner uses an electric ignition circuit in which an input terminal of a switching power supply circuit is connected to a power supply, an input terminal of a booster circuit is connected to an output terminal of a switching power supply circuit, and an input terminal of an ion needle module is connected to an output terminal of the booster circuit. An output terminal of the ion needle module is close to an arc-striking ion generator, forming an ionization point pair. A power control circuit transmits a PWM signal to the switching power supply circuit, so that the latter outputs a corresponding signal to the booster circuit, which transmits a corresponding signal to the ion needle assembly to control the ionization point pair to achieve ignition through arc-striking, generating a flame with an adjustable output power, thereby simplifying and improving the reliability of the electric ignition circuit.