Abstract: The electric cigarette lighter combines the handling advantages of rotating operation with the contacting advantages of pressing operation. A shaft is rotationally fixed to a rotary knob but axially slidable with respect thereto. A heater body affixed to the shaft is brought from an initial position to an operating position through a rotating movement of the rotary knob and a superimposed rotary thrust movement of the shaft. The heater body is automatically returned from the operating position to to the initial position through likewise superimposed rotary thrust spring forces of one or two restoring springs.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for production of 1-alkyl-4(1H)-oxo-cinnolin-3-carboxylic acids. Mesoxalic acid dialkylester-3,4-methylenedioxy-phenylhydrazone is saponified using 1 to 1.5 Mol alkali into the corresponding monoalkylester, which is cyclicized with a Friedel-Crafts catalyst in the presence of a carboxylic acid anhydride into 6,7-methylenedioxy-4(1H)-oxo-cinnolin-3-carboxylic acid alkylester, which is alkylated with a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl halogenide in the presence of alkali in a suitable solvent, after which the ester is saponified. Small amounts of byproduct alkylated in the 2-position are removed by brief heating and precipitation from alkaline solution, leaving a pure 1-alkyl product. The product is useful for the treatment of urinary tract infections.