GB615603A - Improvements relating to combined cigarette cases and friction lighters - Google Patents

Abstract

615,603. Lighters combined with cigarette cases. COLIBRI LIGHTERS, Ltd., LOWENTHAL, J., and MOORE, C. W. Dec. 2, 1946, No. 35684. [Class 75 (iii)] [Also in Group XVII] In an automatic friction lighter combined with a cigarette case a member on the hinged lid of the cigarette case co-operates with a member connected to the lighter mechanism so that the lighter is operated both on opening and on closing the cigarette case lid and means are provided for displacing one of the co-operating members so that the lid can then be opened or closed without operating the lighter. A pivoted spring operated cover 19 on the lighter is connected to the flint wheel 18 by pawl and ratchet mechanism and is retained in its closed position by a slidable plate 24 which is urged by a leaf spring 26 so that a hook 23 on its end engages a recess 25 in the lighter cover. The plate 24 projects through a slot in the wall between the lighter and the cigarette case, the projecting end carrying a pin 27 which engages a projection 32 on a plate 28 slidably mounted on the lid 11 of the cigarette case. On opening and on closing the lid 11 the projection 32 which has two inclined surfaces displaces the pin 27 to unlatch the lighter cover. By depressing the upper end 36 of the plate 28 against the action of a spring 35 the projection 32 fails to engage with the pin 27 on opening and closing the cigarette case lid. Operation of the lighter independently of the cigarette case lid is provided by a cam member 42 which engages an aperture 43 in the sliding plate 24 and is rotated by a thumb wheel 41 mounted on the wick tube 15. Alternatively a projection on the outer end of the sliding plate can be displaced to unlatch the lighter cover.