US3679346A - Lighters, especially gas lighters - Google Patents

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US3679346A
US3679346A US71181A US3679346DA US3679346A US 3679346 A US3679346 A US 3679346A US 71181 A US71181 A US 71181A US 3679346D A US3679346D A US 3679346DA US 3679346 A US3679346 A US 3679346A
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Jacques Lambert
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Flaminaire Marcel Quercia SA
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q2/00—Lighters containing fuel, e.g. for cigarettes
    • F23Q2/16—Lighters with gaseous fuel, e.g. the gas being stored in liquid phase
    • F23Q2/162—Lighters with gaseous fuel, e.g. the gas being stored in liquid phase with non-adjustable gas flame

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  • the lighter comprises a burner, an ignition device and a push member which acts on the ignition device and on the burner fuel supply.
  • the case of the lighter includes a port provided with a pivoting cover and actuated by the push member. In its resting position the push member reestablishes the parallelepipedic shape of the lighter.
  • the invention relates to lighters, especially gas lighters comprising a burner, an ignition device and a push member which acts upon the ignition device, and if necessary, upon the fuel supply of the burner.
  • the invention relates to those whose general shape is parallelepipedic, and it is known that the conception of such lighters always poses problems with regard to their external appearance (which must be devoid of all roughness or protuberance in order to preserve a pure aesthetic appearance) and to their dismantling (which must be simple in order for the user to effect the cleaning operations and maintenance of the mechanism of the lighter).
  • the lighter according to the invention is characterized by the fact, that it comprises a case protecting the different constituent elements of the lighter, this case being formed by two principal parallel or approximately parallel walls, and by three lateral walls connecting these two principal walls, the said case ha ing thus an open side, the above-mentioned constituent elements, especially the reservoir, the burner, the ignition device, and the push member, forming an independent assembly of generally-parallelepipedic shape able to slide into the abovesaid case through its open end, that the push member constitutes an essential part of one of the two lateral walls, the lateral wall which ends at the open side of the case, this lateral wall having a cut-out which extends through two notches respectively upon the two principal walls, the depth of these two notches, whose general shape is preferably curved inwards, corresponding to the amplitude of the depressional movement of the push member, and that the push member includes a flat portion, whose length is at least equal to the length of the cut-out and whose width is at least equal to the depth of the two groove
  • the lighter is devoid of any roughness or protuberance, and that its dismantling remains easy since it is effected by simple extraction, from the case, of the assembly grouping the elements constituting the lighter, and that finally a lighter is obtained which has a very clean aesthetic appearance and which is dustproof and particularly to small particles.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings show, in elevation with portions in cross-section, one embodiment of a gas lighter constructed according to the invention, these two Figures showing the said lighter respectively in closed resting position and in open ignited position.
  • FIG. 3 is a section along the line IIIIII of FIG. 2, with portions hidden.
  • FIG. 4 is a view from above with portion cut-away of the same lighter.
  • FIG. 5 is a view from below of the lighter.
  • the lighter illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 5 is an automatic gas lighter and it comprises,
  • this burner being constitutable by the hollow stern of an outlet valve for gas (not shown) which can be open, against the action of a return spring, when axial traction is exerted upon the said stem,
  • an ignition device designated in a' general manner by the reference number 1, constituted by a mill wheel la and a lighter flint 9; but this ignition device could be of electrical or any other type,
  • a push member 11 which acts upon the ignition device I by rotau'ng the mill wheel la in the desired direction by means of a blade of a split spring 8, and which acts also upon the burner 2 in order to cause the opening of the gas outlet valve by means of a bent lever 15 mounted, pivotably upon the reservoir 10 around an axis 16, and of which one of the ends has a fork shape engaged underneath a head 17 rigidly fixed to the stem of the gas outlet valve, the abovesaid bent lever 15 being supported by its upper end, against the inner surface of the push member 1 1.
  • This lighter comprises also a case 4 for protecting the different constituent elements of the lighter, this case 4 being formed'by two principal walls 4a and 4b an end wall 4c and by lateral walls 4d, 4e connecting these two principal walls 4a and
  • the lateral walls are three in number, 40, 4d and 4e, the abovesaid case 4 thus having an open side 22.
  • the burner 2 is oriented transversely with respect to the lateral wall 4c which has a cut out 3 allowing the passage of the flame, this cutout 3 being provided with a cover 5 pivoting around an axis 6 parallel to the lateral wall 4c concerned.
  • the pivoting axis 6 of the cover 5 is located inside the case 4 with respect to the lateral wall 4c in which is arranged the cut out 3.
  • the cover 5 has a shape such that, in closed position, its outwardly turned surface is flush with the outer surface of the lateral wall 4c surrounding the cut out 3(FIG. l), and that when the push member 1 l is pressed in order to actuate simultaneously the ignition device, the opening of the cover and the supply of the burner with fuel, aportion 5a of the cover 5 pivots towards the outside of the case 4 and the other portion 5b of the cover 5 pivots towards the inside of the case 4 (FIG. 2).
  • the cover 5 has a section (through a plane perpendicular to its pivoting axis 6) in a shape of a T whose upper bar is longer than the central bar 7 forming the stern of the T and entirely masks the cut 3.
  • the pivoting axis 6 of the cover 5 is situated on the other side of the burner 2, with respect to the central bar 7, when the cover 5 is in closed position (FIG. 1
  • the central bar 7 constitutes a plate occupying a portion of the cut out 3, only the portion of the cut out 3 situated to the right of the burner 2 remaining uncovered (FIG. 2).
  • the ignition device 1 comprises a mill wheel la and a flint 9
  • the cover 5 comprises, on the side of its pivoting axis 6, two Wings 50 and 5d, perpendicular to its pivoting axis 6 and transversed by the said axis, the mill wheel la of this lighter being mounted upon a hollow axis 6a, coaxial with the pivoting axis 6 and whose ends are borne by the two abovesaid wings.
  • Such a feature allows, when the cover 5 is in open position, the complete masking of the mill wheel la which is surrounded, laterally, by the two wings 5c and 5d and covered towards the top by the central bar 7, which contributes to the protection of this mill wheel and improves the aesthetic appearance of the lighter when the latter is lit.
  • the push member 1 l constitutes an essential part of the. lateral wall 4: which ends at the open side 22, this lateral wall 4'having a cut out 23'which is extendedby two indentations 23a and 23b respectively on the two principal walls 40 and 4b,
  • the depthof these in'dentations 23a and 23b,'who se general shape is preferably inwardly curved, corresponding to the amplitude of the movement of depression of the push member
  • the push member 11 includes a flat portion llc whose length is at least equal to the length'of the cut out 23, and two wings 11a and llhperpendicular to this flat portion 11c and g 7 whose width'is at least equal to the depth of the two intendation s23q and'23b e U
  • the i parallelepipedic shape of the lighter is thus reestablished.
  • this push member comprises two extensions A returnspring 18, in the shape of ahairpin, surrounds the articulation axis 12 and is supported, by its ends, on one hand,
  • the said return spring 18 tending to separate the push member 11 from the reservoir up to a positionof i the reservoir up to a stop position in which the push member is 14a and 14b, situated in extension of the wings 11a and 11b and operating through the studs 14, the cover 5;
  • this stop position can beobtained by providing a stop surface 2l ,.rigidly fixed to the reservoir “10 by means of pins 20, which support the cover 5 in closed position (FIG. 1
  • a gas lighter having a generally parallelepipedic shape and comprising a case having an open end and being formed by two principal walls, and end wallopposite said open end andtwo lateral walls connecting said two principal walls, one
  • said end wall,' op'- posite said open end has a port provided with a cover pivoting around a pivoting axis parallelto' said second lateral wall, saidf port allowing, when said cover is in open position, the passage of the flame, the push member actuating simultaneously the" V ignition device and the opening of said cover, wherein,
  • cover is arranged so that,i closed position
  • pivotingaxis of said cover being situated on the other side of the burner, with respect to said central bar, when the cover is in closed position, the central bar constituting, when the cover is in open position, a plate occupying partof the port.
  • the ignition device a is of the mill wheel and flint type
  • the cover comprises on the side on its pivoting axis, two wings perpendicular to its pivoting axis and traversed by itssaid axis, the mill wheel of the lighter being mounted upon a hollow axis coaxial'with said pivoting axis and whose ends are carried by the two said wings.
  • the two wings of the cover each include a slot, the push member including two I studs engaged respectively in the two said slots so that, when the push member is depressed, it causes the pivoting of the cover and its passage from the closed position to the open i position.

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US4487570A (en) * 1979-10-31 1984-12-11 Colibri Lighters Limited Smokers lighter
US4640679A (en) * 1984-10-15 1987-02-03 Denis Perrin Flame shield for cigarette lighter and cigarette lighter including said flame shield

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DE815117C (de) * 1950-02-11 1951-09-27 Richard Luckow Feuerzeug

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US2162395A (en) * 1936-07-01 1939-06-13 Catalyst Research Corp Apparatus for analyzing gases
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US4487570A (en) * 1979-10-31 1984-12-11 Colibri Lighters Limited Smokers lighter
US4640679A (en) * 1984-10-15 1987-02-03 Denis Perrin Flame shield for cigarette lighter and cigarette lighter including said flame shield

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