GB674414A - Containers for pocket cigarette or cigar lighters - Google Patents

Abstract

674,414. Table lighters. NISSEN, O. Nov. 9, 1950 [March 20, 1950], No. 27374/50. Class 75(iii) Relates to the combination of a pocket cigarette or cigar lighter, of the kind having in one end an igniting mechanism and in the other end a detachable plug for the fuel compartment, and a container for receiving the lighter to adapt it as a table lighter. The container 1 is provided in its top 2 with an aperture 3 having the same crosssection as the cross-section of the lighter, the aperture communicating with a tubular extension 4, projecting into the container and having a cross-section corresponding to the shape of the aperture and being slightly shorter than that part of the lighter (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3), to be inserted into the container. The aperture 3 is closable by a lid 6 slidable between rails 5 on the top 2. The top 2 may be provided with a recess 7 to receive the detachable plug 8 of the lighter and this recess is closed by the lid when the aperture is uncovered. The interior of the container is filled with liquid absorbing material, e.g. cotton wool which is soaked with lighter fuel. When it is desired to convert the pocket lighter to a table lighter, its plug 8 is removed and inserted into the recess 7 which is then covered by the lid 6. The lighter is then pressed down into the extension 4 and against the cotton wool beneath the extension, so that a connection is provided between the cotton wool in the container and that in the lighter.