SEB S.A.

A portable vacuum cleaner includes a main body equipped with a suction duct, and a suction motor housed in the main body and configured to generate an air flow through the suction duct. The main body includes an air exhaust circuit through which the air flow generated by the suction motor is exhausted to the outside of the main body. The air exhaust circuit includes a filter having a generally cylindrical shape and delimiting an internal chamber fluidly connected to an air discharge orifice of the suction motor, and an acoustic absorption wall extending at least partly into the internal chamber of the filter, an internal surface of the filter and the acoustic absorption wall delimiting a first air conduit and a second air conduit in each of which is configured to circulate a part of the air flow.

A coated cooking element for a cooking utensil or electrical cooking appliance includes a metal substrate coated on at least one face with at least the following layers and in this order proceeding from the metal substrate: an enamel base layer, optionally one or more intermediate layers having of one or more coloring agents and optionally one or more silicone resins, and/or one or more thermoplastic polymers, and/or one or more fillers, and/or one or more additives, a finishing layer that is to come in contact with food and consists of one or more silicone resins and optionally one or more thermoplastic polymers, and/or one or more fillers, and/or one or more additives, and/or flakes. The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing said cooking element.

An electric deep fryer includes a vat configured to contain a frying bath, and an electric immersion heating element configured to be immersed in the frying bath contained in the vat. The vat has a bottom with a sloping part draining into a depression forming a water collection area. The sloping part has a slope change area extending between an upper bottom part and the depression. The electric immersion heating element has heating wires extending above the sloping part. The heating wires extend above the upper bottom part without reaching the depression.

A coated cooking element includes the following steps: i. Providing a metal substrate having a face, to be coated with a film; ii. Providing the film, the film having a layer to be brought in contact with the face of the metal substrate, the layer comprising: 50-100% by weight of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) 0-50% by weight of one or more thermoplastic polymers different from PTFE the percentages being relative to the total weight of PTFE and said one or more thermoplastic polymer(s); iii. Heating the metal substrate; iv. Positioning the film such that layer faces the face of the metal substrate heated in step iii.; v. Assembling the metal substrate and the film by hot stamping, the metal substrate being at a temperature between 350° C. and 550° C. at the time of assembly; and such that the film is heated essentially by conduction when brought in contact with the metal substrate at the time of assembly in step (v).

A method for manufacturing a coated cooking element includes the following steps: i. Providing a metal substrate and a metal mesh, the metal substrate having a face intended to be brought into contact with the metal mesh; ii. Attaching the metal mesh to the face; iii. Providing a film having a layer including one or more semi-crystalline or amorphous thermoplastic polymers, the layer configured to be brought into contact with the face and with the metal mesh; iv. Heating the metal substrate and the metal mesh; v. Positioning the film such that the layer is facing the face and the metal mesh; vi. Assembling the metal substrate and the metal mesh with the film by hot stamping, the metal substrate and the metal mesh being at a temperature higher than the lowest of the melting points of the semi-crystalline thermoplastic polymers and the glass transition temperatures of the amorphous thermoplastic polymers of the layer at the time of assembly.

A cleaning unit includes a rotating brush configured to be removably mounted in a receiving housing of a suction head, and a closure cap configured to close a passage opening provided on the suction head and through which the rotating brush is adapted to be removed from the receiving housing. The closure cap includes a cap body; a locking member which is elastically deformable and movable between locking and release positions; and an actuating member configured to displace the locking member from the locking position to the release position.

A coated cooking element for a kitchen utensil or electrical cooking appliance includes a metal substrate coated, on at least one face, with a single layer which, by one of its faces, is in contact with the metal substrate and one of the faces of which forms a cooking face. The layer includes one or more silicone resins, one or more heterocyclic thermoplastic polymers selected from the group consisting of polyetherimides, polyimides), polyamide imides, and polybenzymidazole, and optionally one or more aromatic thermoplastic polymers, one or more fillers and/or one or more additives and/or one or more coloring agents; a process for manufacturing same, a kitchen utensil or an electrical cooking appliance including same.

A coated cooking element for a cooking utensil or electrical cooking appliance includes a metal substrate coated on at least one face with at least the following layers and in this order starting from the metal substrate: tie sublayer having between 20% and 100% by weight of the total weight of the sublayer of one or more polymers selected from the group consisting of polyaryletherketones, and one or more polymers selected from the group consisting of polyetherimides, polyimides, polyamide-imides, and polybenzimidazoles, with a PAEK:(PEI+PI+PAI+PBI) weight ratio of between 1:1 and 15:1, optionally, one or more intermediate layers having of one or more coloring agents and optionally one or more silicone resins, one or more thermoplastic polymers and/or one or more fillers, and/or one or more additives, a finishing layer including one or more silicone resins and optionally one or more thermoplastic polymers, and/or one or more fillers, and/or one or more additives, and/or flakes.

A kitchen appliance includes a work unit having a bowl, a lid and a rotary accessory rotatable around a rotational axis; a pull string drive device including a main body, a drive wheel housed in the main body, a string configured to be wound around the drive wheel, and a handle connected to the string, the pull string drive device being configured to manually rotate the rotary accessory by pulling the string transversely to the rotational axis; and a locking system configured to fasten the main body temporarily and reversibly to the lid, and to prevent rotational movement of the main body relative to the lid and along the rotational axis.

A method for cooking and/or heating foods includes the step of supplying steam expansion chamber including a deformable and/or mobile containment wall partially delimiting an enclosure configured for receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked. The steam expansion chamber is adjacent to the enclosure receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked.