US3925004A - Cigar and cigarette lighter - Google Patents

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US3925004A
US3925004A US457544A US45754474A US3925004A US 3925004 A US3925004 A US 3925004A US 457544 A US457544 A US 457544A US 45754474 A US45754474 A US 45754474A US 3925004 A US3925004 A US 3925004A
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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
    • F23Q2/34—Component parts or accessories
    • F23Q2/46—Friction wheels; Arrangement of friction wheels
    • 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
    • F23Q2/161—Lighters with gaseous fuel, e.g. the gas being stored in liquid phase with friction wheel

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  • Automatic gas lighters comprising a casing containing a gas reservoir, and a burner equipped with a valve, disposed between the burner and the reservoir, of which the opening is controlled through the intermediary of a linkage, or the like, by means of a first push button or the like actuable by the user.
  • a serrated wheel in contact with a flint is rotatable by a second push button or the like likewise actuable by the user.
  • An object of the present invention is to eliminate the disadvantages of these known lighters.
  • a lighter a casing defining a fuel reservoir, a burner, means providing communication between the reservoir and the burner including a valve and means controlling the opening of the valve, a flint carrier,'friction means for generating fuel-igniting sparks from a flint in the carrier, and a push button connected to drive the, friction means throughout the stroke of the button, and arranged to actuate the valve control means to open the valve only after the button has moved through a major proportion of its stroke.
  • FIG. 1 is a part sectional side elevation of one embodiment of a lighter in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a section on the line IIII of FIG. 1.
  • the lighter shown comprises a body 1, on which is mounted a piston 2 slidable in a cylindrical guide slot 3.
  • a push-button 4 formed integrally with the piston 2 is biased to the upper position (as shown) by a helical spring 5 interposed between a part of the body and the push-button 4.
  • a valve 6 is movably mounted in the body 1 and has an internal passage 7 which connects an external orifice 8 of the valve, forming the burner, to the hollow interior of the body 1, which forms a gas reservoir 9.
  • the valve 6 has a throat 10, which is engaged in a terminal recess 11 formed by a fork of a lever 12 which is supported on a projection 13 rigid with the body 1. This lever 12 constitutes a control linkage of the valve 6.
  • a cover 14 is pivoted on the body 1 about a pin 15 of a serrated wheel 16 of the lighter flint 17.
  • the flint 17 is biased against the serrated wheel 16 by means of a spring 18 interposed between 2 the flint and the body 1.
  • the serrated wheel 16 is disposed between two parallel upstanding arms 19 of the body 1, and the arms l9have their-upper ends 20 rounded off.
  • the lateral walls of the cover 14 are provided with reduced portions 21- likewise of rounded form and complementary in shape tothe ends 20.
  • cover 14 serves to enclose the burner 8 of the lighter.
  • the arms 19 are resilient and can take up a deformed shape 19a which facilitates the introduction of end portions 15a of the pin 15 into apertures 29 provided in the arms 19.
  • The. end-portions 15a constitute, in fact, pivots.
  • Lugs 23 are rigid with side walls 25 of? the cover 14 and are engaged in two blind grooves 26, provided in an extension of the push-button 4, and with the aid of openings 27 of the said grooves 26.
  • the lugs 23 extend parallel to the pin 15. Moreover, the clearance e of each lug 23, when the sliding of the push-button displaces the corresponding groove from 26 to 26b and displaces the said lug from 23 to 23b, is less than, or at least equal to, the length E of the said groove. Finally, the direction of sliding is perpendicular to that of the pin 15, whilst on completion of the sliding, after having been displaced by a distance d, a projection 28 of the push-button 4 interengages withthe lever 12.
  • This plate 30 is rotated in relation to the cover 14by, its upper (as shown) edge 30a.
  • the lighter which has just been described is simple.
  • the pushbutton 4 slides and is guided by the piston 2 in the cylinder 3 by the sliding engagement of the side wall 33 of the pushbutton with the adjacent peripheral wall 34 of the well or hou sing 35 formed in the upper end of casing l, in which the pushbutton is located.
  • the grooves 26 are subjected to the same displacement as the push-button 4 and engage the lugs 23.
  • the lugs 23 being eccentric with respect to the centre line 22 which extends parallel to the direction of sliding and which pass by the pin 15, are similarly driven and cause pivoting and thus opening of the cover 14.
  • the length E of the grooves 26 being at least equal to the clearance e of the lugs 23 in the grooves 26, these lugs 23 engage freely in the grooves.
  • the lighter is relatively easy to manufacture and to assemble. For assembly, it is only required to engage the lugs 23 in the grooves 26, then the piston 2 into the guide 3 and, finally, by deforming momentarily the resilient arms 19, to introduce the end portions 15a of the pin 15 into the openings 29.
  • the assembly of the cover 14, the serrated wheel 16 and the push-button 4 is then mounted on the body 1.
  • the grooves 26 may, in a mod- 3 ification, be rigid with the cover 14 and the lugs 23 with the push-button 4.
  • the push-button 4 is held in the body 1, against the action of the spring 5 which tends to separate them, by the lugs 23.
  • the cover 14 is fully re-- closed and is in abutment on the upper face la of the body 1, which is disposed opposite to it, the lugs 23 remain engaged in the grooves 26, and become fixed in relation to the body 1, thus preventing any further sliding of the push-button 4. The latter is thus well supported on the body 1.
  • a lighter comprising,
  • selectively operable valve means for providing communication between said reservoir and said burner
  • friction means movably mounted in said casing for generating a fuel-igniting spark upon movement thereof;
  • a pushbutton slidably mounted in said casing for vertical sliding movement with respect to the casing and being operatively connected to said friction means for moving the same to produce a spark upon downward movement of the pushbutton;
  • said pushbutton having a groove formed therein extending generally perpendicularly of the direction of movement of the pushbutton and receiving said lug, thereby to actuate said friction means upon downward movement of the pushbutton, said groove having a length which is at least equal to the amount of clearance required therein to accommodate movement of the lug, in the direction of the groove, during downward movement of the pushbutton;
  • said pushbutton also including a peripheral wall portion and an elongated piston extending from one side of the pushbutton between and beyond said peripheral wall; said casing including an upper peripheral wall defining a well in the casing and slidably receiving the peripheral wall of the pushbutton therein, a bore slidably receiving said piston, and a helical coil spring coaxially arranged about the pistion in said well between the pushbutton and casing to urge the pushbutton to a normal upmost position with respect to the casing.
  • said lighter further including a cover pivotally mounted on the casing and arranged to cover an end of the burner, the pivotal axis of the cover being coincident with the pivotal axis of the wheel; said cover being operatively connected to the wheel and bearing said lug.
  • a lighter as defined in claim 2 wherein said groove in the pushbutton is straight and extends perpendicuthe uppermost position of the pushbutton, a predetermined distance selected such that said engaging means does not engage said second end of the lever until said lug has moved a predetermined amount in said groove, thereby to insure that said friction means is producing igniting sparks when said valve is opened.
  • a lighter according to claim 3 wherein the groove is blind and includes .means defining an opening by which the lug is introduced into the groove.

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US5020990A (en) * 1990-04-11 1991-06-04 First Glorious Enterprise Co., Ltd. Gas fuel lighter
US20160201906A1 (en) * 2013-12-17 2016-07-14 Long Chen Push-Button Type Flint Ignition Mechanism Capable of Automatic Resetting

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US2691882A (en) * 1951-10-15 1954-10-19 Meller Elliot Adolph Pyrophoric lighter
US2743597A (en) * 1952-09-01 1956-05-01 Newman Stanley Herbert Compressed gas-fuelled cigarette lighters
US2943471A (en) * 1956-06-29 1960-07-05 Schick Inc Cigarette lighter
US3813208A (en) * 1971-09-13 1974-05-28 Dupont S T Flint lighters with a rotary knurled wheel
US3816058A (en) * 1973-03-07 1974-06-11 Garrity P Lighter with single member valve activator and spark generator support

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US2691882A (en) * 1951-10-15 1954-10-19 Meller Elliot Adolph Pyrophoric lighter
US2743597A (en) * 1952-09-01 1956-05-01 Newman Stanley Herbert Compressed gas-fuelled cigarette lighters
US2943471A (en) * 1956-06-29 1960-07-05 Schick Inc Cigarette lighter
US3813208A (en) * 1971-09-13 1974-05-28 Dupont S T Flint lighters with a rotary knurled wheel
US3816058A (en) * 1973-03-07 1974-06-11 Garrity P Lighter with single member valve activator and spark generator support

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5020990A (en) * 1990-04-11 1991-06-04 First Glorious Enterprise Co., Ltd. Gas fuel lighter
US20160201906A1 (en) * 2013-12-17 2016-07-14 Long Chen Push-Button Type Flint Ignition Mechanism Capable of Automatic Resetting
US9909760B2 (en) * 2013-12-17 2018-03-06 Long Chen Push-button type flint ignition mechanism capable of automatic resetting

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