US3926545A - Self-cleaning electrically ignited lighter - Google Patents

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US3926545A
US3926545A US524495A US52449574A US3926545A US 3926545 A US3926545 A US 3926545A US 524495 A US524495 A US 524495A US 52449574 A US52449574 A US 52449574A US 3926545 A US3926545 A US 3926545A
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Henri Gujer
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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
    • F23Q2/28—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel
    • F23Q2/285—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel with spark ignition
    • F23Q2/287—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel with spark ignition piezoelectric
    • 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
    • F23Q2/28—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel
    • F23Q2/285—Lighters characterised by electrical ignition of the fuel with spark ignition

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  • the present invention relates to an improved gasfueled electrically ignited lighter. I, r L
  • the electrical ignition may be electrically powered, for example, by a battery, by a magnetic device orby a pie' zoelec'tric device, and in each case the burner is asa rule also one ofthe ignition electrodes.
  • burner cleaning means operated by the actuating mechanism of the lighter are provided.
  • the burner cleaning means include at least one brush or at least one cleaning pad of elastic material and these means are arranged to be moved relative to the burner and in contact therewith with every actuation of the lighter so as to clean the burner when it is not actually lit, thus before ignition or after extinction, or both.
  • the movement of the cleaning means and of the actuating means is parallel to the axis of a tubularshaped burner or the like, so that the motion may be transmitted to the cleaning means by the actuating 4 means by the provision of a pair of parallel carrier brackets on opposite sides of the burner into which the cleaning means in the form of brushes or pads may be replaceably mounted in holding grooves having a reentrant cross section, such as T or dovetail cross section.
  • a cleaning means can also be so arranged as to operate on the second ignition.
  • electrode that is spaced a short distance away from the burner, but this has been found to be as a rule unnecessary, because deposits of products of combustion and the like that occur on this electrode do not impair its operation.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic side view, partly in cross section, of a gas-fueled piezoeiectrically ignited lighter, shown in its rest position;
  • FIG. 2 is an end view, partly broken away, of the lighter shown in FIG. ll;
  • H6. 3 is a schematic side view, partly in section, of the lighter of FIG. 1 in its operated position;
  • HG. 4 is an end view of the lighter in the operated position.
  • the piezoelectrically ignited gas-fueled lighter shown by way of illustration in the drawings comprises in the usual way a casing 1 containing a fuel container and the piezoelectric ignition device of which the depressable button 2, of its actuating mechanism extends out of the casing i. Depression of the button 2 into the operated position shown in FlG.
  • valve lever 4 causes an opening of the fuel connection between the fuel container (not shown) and a burner 3 by means of a socalled valve lever 4 and at the same time tensions a striking hammer, not further shown, in a-rchamber 6 and finally releases the hammer to produce a sudden deformation of a piezoelectric elcment (not shown), which in turn generates an electrical pulse that causes a spark breakdown between the burner 3, operating as one electrode, and a neighboring additional electrode 5, thereby igniting the gas coming out in a jet from the burner 3.
  • projecting arms 7 and 8 are provided on the previously:mentioned actuating button 2, which are parallel and spaced from each other on opposite sides of the burner 3.
  • actuating button 2 On the inner sides of the two projecting arms 7 and 8, directly above the free end of the burner in the position shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 are brushes 9 and lift.
  • the bristles of each of these brushes preferably extend slightly into the opposite brush.
  • the base members of the brushes 9 and W. are slidably mounted in T-shaped grooves on the inner side of thearms 7 and 8 so as to be replaceable.
  • connection between the brushes 9 and 10 and the arms 7 and 8 may be used.
  • the bases of the brushes can he slipped into grooves of dovetail profile or, if replaceability of the brushes is not imperative, the brushes can be simply affixed to the inner side of the arms 7 and g with an adhesive.
  • cleaning means such as cleaning or scouring pads of elastic material, such as synthetic resin foam or the like, may be used.
  • Actuation of the button 2 downwardly to ignite the lighter now also produces a downward motion of the brushes 9 and it), by which the burner 3 is brushed clean from the top down on all sides.
  • the movement is so arranged that the brushes 9 and 10 at least approximately reach their lower end position shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 before ignition takes place, in order to avoid singeing the brushes.
  • Such a cleaning device can be provided for practically any form of lighter, quite independently of whether the lighter actuating mechanism has a push button, a slider, a flip-cover or the like as its external operating member. in any of these cases there is no difficulty to provide corresponding arms or levers which will move the brushes or the like relative to the burner in brushing contact, either in parallel to the burner axis or else in some other direction, which may also be transversely across the burner.
  • the cleaning means may also take the form of a roller or the like and perform the cleaning operation by its rotation.
  • Lighter comprising: a controllable ga's jet burner (3) and electric ignition means (5, 6) therefor;
  • manually operable actuating means (2, 4) for causing fuel gas to be released to said gas jet burner and for producing an electric spark in said ignition means to ignite said fuel gas at said burner; cleaning means (9, l) movable relative to said burner for cleaning the burner surfaces thereof, and means (7, 8) linking said actuating means and said cleaning means for operating said cleaning means.
  • said cleaning means comprises at least one brush.
  • said cleaning means comprises at least one cleaning pan of elastic material.
  • said actuating means comprises a depressable member movable in a direction at least approximately parallel to the axis of symmetry of said burner and in which said linking means includes two spaced parallel carrier means projecting from said depressable member, said cleaning means consisting of two members, one mounted on each of said carrier means.

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US2785741A (en) * 1953-11-12 1957-03-19 Grauers Kjell Georg Automatic controlling means for liquid fuel burners
US3377122A (en) * 1964-04-30 1968-04-09 Zenza Bronica Kogyo Kabushiki Gas lighter
US3490856A (en) * 1968-03-14 1970-01-20 Baker Perkins Inc Gas fired ribbon burner and electrode assembly

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US2785741A (en) * 1953-11-12 1957-03-19 Grauers Kjell Georg Automatic controlling means for liquid fuel burners
US3377122A (en) * 1964-04-30 1968-04-09 Zenza Bronica Kogyo Kabushiki Gas lighter
US3490856A (en) * 1968-03-14 1970-01-20 Baker Perkins Inc Gas fired ribbon burner and electrode assembly

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CN103697497A (zh) * 2013-12-30 2014-04-02 曾利祥 新型打火机电子点火器的插件
CN103697497B (zh) * 2013-12-30 2015-11-18 曾利祥 新型打火机电子点火器的插件
US10561231B1 (en) * 2017-01-09 2020-02-18 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company Grout cleaning hand tool
CN107323324A (zh) * 2017-05-25 2017-11-07 繁昌县倍思创业服务有限公司 一种具有内置清理装置的车载点烟器

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AT332150B (de) 1976-09-10
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