Electrically heating and dispensing a metered quantity of fluent material

Claim 1

MEANS HEATING AND DISPENSING, ON DEMAND, METERED QUANTITIES OF FLUID COMPRISING FLUID RESERVOIR MEANS, FLUID RECEIVING MEANS, FLUID HEATING AND METERING MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID RESERVOIR AND RECEIVING MEANS, FIRST VALVE MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID RESERVOIR AND SAID HEATING AND METERING MEANS, SECOND VALVE MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID HEATING AND METERING AND SAID RECEIVING MEANS, FIRST CONTROL MEANS FOR SAID VALVE MEANS SIMULTANEOUSLY OPENING SAID FIRST VALVE MEANS AND CLOSING SAID SECOND VALVE MEANS AT THE INITIATION OF A HEATING AND DISPENSING CYCLE AND SECOND CONTROL MEANS FOR SAID VALVE MEANS, RESPONSIVE TO A PRESELECTED FLUID TEMPERATURE IN SAID HEATING AND METERING MEANS, SIMULTANEOUSLY CLOSING SAID FIRST VALVE MEANS AND OPENING SAID SECOND VALVE MEANS UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF SAID PRESELECTED TEMPERATURE; WHEREIN SAID HEATING AND METERING MEANS COMPRISES AN OUTER ELECTRODE SHELL DEFINING A METERING CHAMBER OF PREDETERMINED VOLUME, AN INNER ELECTRODE SHELL SYMMETRICALLY SPACED FROM AND INTERNALLY COEXTENSIVE WITH SAID OUTER ELECTRODE SHELL, AND MEANS PROVIDING AN ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL BETWEEN SAID ELECTRODE SHELLS; AND WHEREIN SAID SECOND CONTROL MEANS INCLUDES A BIMETALLIC ACTUATING MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID HEATING AND METERING MEANS.