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The pilot light is no longer used in new devices, but may still be encountered on old appliances still in service. [1] Pilot lights were withdrawn because their continual small flame represented a waste of fuel. [1] Pilot lights required their own FSD, typically a thermocouple which held the valve open. [2]
Stack light in automated production for in-line quality inspection. Stack lights (also known as signal tower lights, indicator lights, andon lights, warning lights, industrial signal lights, or tower lights) are commonly used on equipment in industrial manufacturing and process control environments to provide visual and audible indicators of a machine's status to machine operators, technicians ...
Originally called "Northwestern Steel and Iron Works" the company changed its name to the "National Pressure Cooker Company" in 1929 and then National Presto Industries, Inc. 1953. [3] The company originally produced pressure canners for commercial, and later home, use. Beginning in 1939, the company introduced small home-use cooking appliances.
An air handler, or air handling unit (often abbreviated to AHU), is a device used to regulate and circulate air as part of a heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system. [1] An air handler is usually a large metal box containing a blower , furnace or A/C elements, filter racks or chambers, sound attenuators , and dampers . [ 2 ]
The doctors and nurses didn’t believe Tomisa Starr was having trouble breathing. Two years ago, Starr, 61, of Sacramento, California, was in the hospital for a spike in her blood pressure.
Hawkins Cookers Limited Inc and formerly known as Pressure Cookers and Appliances Ltd, [1] is an Indian company which manufactures pressure cookers and cookware. [6] The company is based in Mumbai and has three manufacturing plants at Thane , Hoshiarpur and Jaunpur .
A diffuser is "a device for reducing the velocity and increasing the static pressure of a fluid passing through a system”. [1] The fluid's static pressure rise as it passes through a duct is commonly referred to as pressure recovery. In contrast, a nozzle is used to increase the discharge velocity and lower the pressure of a fluid passing ...
cooker an appliance for cooking food (US: cookstove, stove, range) a cooking apple, a large sour apple used in cooking a pot or utensil for cooking in ("pressure cooker", "rice cooker", "slow cooker") a person who cooks (UK: cook) cookie a bun (Scotland)