Abstract: A gas lighter with safety mechanism comprising an inner frame mounted on top of a fuel reservoir and provided with a valve for releasing fuel contained in the fuel reservoir; an outer frame mounted on top of the inner frame and having two supports each of which is provided with a L-shaped supporting hole including a vertical section and a horizontal section; a lever sandwiched between the two supports and pivotable with respect to the outer frame to actuate the valve; a flint disposed between the two supports; a friction wheel rotatably sleeved on a shaft between the two supports, the shaft are movably supported in the supporting holes, the friction wheel is separate from the flint when the shaft is moved to the vertical sections while contacts the flint to enable to generate sparks by rotating the friction wheel when the shaft is moved to the horizontal sections.

Abstract: A gas lighter that includes a reservoir for holding a flammable gas, a valve mounted on a top surface of the reservoir for allowing a release of the gas from the reservoir, a valve actuator having a push button on a first end and a connector at a second end for connecting the valve actuator to the valve; a first spring biased against a lower surface of the push button actuator and a wall of the reservoir; a spark wheel coaxially mounted with corresponding cheeks that are capable of rotating; a hood disposed completely or partially over the spark wheel and cheeks; at least two support arms, each arm having a first end coaxially mounted with the cheeks and a second end having a pivoting connection to bearings located on the reservoir; a sleeve disposed under the under the spark wheel; a second spring disposed in the sleeve; and a flint stone disposed in the sleeve.

Abstract: A lighter accessory for a cigarette lighter and a smoking device using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the lighter accessory, a shell includes a side wall and a bottom wall defining an open chamber sized to slidably and frictionally receive the cigarette lighter. The opened chamber has an opening opposite the bottom wall that is configured to accept the cigarette lighter. A housing is coupled to the shell to define an interior chamber configured to accept a supply of fibrous wick. A conduit connects the housing to another opening, a wick opening, and a dispenser advances the fibrous wick from the interior chamber through the conduit to the wick opening. In use, the cigarette lighter may light the wick which in turn is used to ignite tobacco or other smokable herb.

Abstract: A safety flint lighter is provided that an adult is allowed to easily make an ignition with a single action without allowing a child to easily lean how to ignite a flame. A safety flint lighter has an ignition device using a flint and a sparking file wheel and structured not permitting a child to ignite a flame. An axial hole, rotatably supporting a rotary shaft of a sparking file wheel, is in a form permitting the rotary shaft, at an axis thereof, to directly move between a first position the rotary shaft is normally hold and distant from a tank body, a second position established closer to the tank body than the first position and on an axis of a flint and a third position established oppositely to a nozzle with respect to a straight line connecting between the first position and the second position.

Abstract: A lighter having a safety mechanism comprises a fuel reservoir; an ignition base comprising a supporting frame on each of two opposite sides thereof; an actuating element; and a wheel comprising a rotating shaft on each of two sides thereof. A resilient element is disposed between the supporting frames and provided with a flint. A retaining hole is formed on each of the supporting frames and comprises a first and a second slot, the first slot having a width smaller than a width of the second slot. The rotating shafts are so shaped that they cannot rotate when engaged in the first slots but can rotate in the second slots. The wheel is pivotally connected to the retaining holes by the rotating shafts and is biased by the flint on the resilient element so that the rotating shafts are engaged in the first slots, preventing the wheel from being rotated.

Abstract: A child resistant roll-and-press lighter includes at least one abutment surface (32; 41; 45) which engages a corresponding counterabutment surface (33; 42; 44) on the lever (20; 50, 51). The surfaces disengage to release the lever for pivotal movement, when and only when at least a predetermined minimum force is applied to the lever pad (23) by the user. The abutment or counterabutment surface may be arranged on a transversely deformable, resilient engaging element (30; 43; 46) which engages the corresponding surface in tension. Alternatively the lever may be mounted in elongate slots so as to translate and so disengage the cooperating surfaces when the minimum force is applied by the user. Alternatively the counterabutment surface may be arranged on a sliding catch (51) housed beneath the lever pad. The minimum force is easily applied by the adult user by rotating the wheel assembly (10) at normal speed.

Abstract: A childproof safety disposable lighter includes a casing, a supporting frame detachably mounted on the casing, an ignition unit which is supported by the supporting frame and includes a striker wheel mounted between two driving wheels, and a pair of safety shells, which are coaxially positioned with the striker wheel and facing two outer sides of the two driving wheels respectively, being integrally, upwardly, and rearwardly extended from two supporting walls of the supporting frame respectively, wherein each of the safety shells is in circular shape having an outer smooth surface and a radius slightly larger than that of the driving wheels so that the two safety shells encircle the outer sides of the two driving wheels respectively to form two physical barriers of the driving wheels.

Abstract: An ignition unit for a lighter includes a striker wheel sandwiched between two driving units wherein each of the driving units includes a driven gear element and a driving cap. The striker wheel urges against a flint with its toothed surface of generating sparks. One of the driving caps is normally rotated about the respective driven gear element in a free rotatably movable manner unless a downward force is intentionally applied on the driving cap while rotating the driving cap to drive the respective driven gear element and said striker wheel to rotate for striking against the flint to produce sparks.

Abstract: An ignition unit, which is incorporated with a disposable childproof lighter, includes a striker wheel for urging against a flint, two driven gear elements coaxially mounted at two sides of the striker wheel, and two driving caps mounted between the driven gear elements and the striker wheel. Each of the driving caps has an outer circumferential slipping surface and a driving cavity for receiving a gear wheel of each driven gear element wherein the driving caps are arranged to engage with the gear wheels to drive the driven gear elements to rotate respectively, so as to drive the striker wheel to rotate for striking against a flint to produce sparks.

Abstract: A childproof safety disposable lighter includes a casing, a supporting frame detachably mounted on the casing, an ignition unit which is supported by the supporting frame and includes a striker wheel mounted between two driving wheels, and a pair of safety shells, which are coaxially positioned with the striker wheel and facing two outer sides of the two driving wheels respectively, being integrally, upwardly, and rearwardly extended from two supporting walls of the supporting frame respectively, wherein each of the safety shells is in circular shape having an outer smooth surface and a radius slightly larger than that of the driving wheels so that the two safety shells encircle the outer sides of the two driving wheels respectively to form two physical barriers of the driving wheels.

Abstract: A flint is easy to take out of a flint holder, which can be carried in a lighter. The flint holder consists of a holding part in the form of a thin plate, a fitting part and a molded hinge part, which integrally connects the holding and fitting parts in such a manner that they can bend. The holding part has parallel slots formed through it side by side at regular intervals. Each of the slots can be loaded with a columnar flint. The fitting part has a fitting hole, with which a screw can engage to fit the flint holder to the lighter.

Abstract: In a standard lighter, a flame is obtained by rotating driving wheels of a striker wheel onto a spark stone. A pair of brake discs are mounted on an axis of a wheel assembly. Each of the pair of brake discs has a same diameter as that of the driving wheels. The pair of brake discs rotate freely relative to the driving wheels. The axis is loosely mounted in mounting slots and can move vertically. A gas release lever has a pair of extension portions placed beneath the pair of brake discs to interrupt or stop rotation of the pair of brake discs. To rotate the driving wheels, a considerable amount of extra force is required to overcome frictional force on the pair of brake discs, and would reduce a risk of fire damage caused by a child's inadvertent activation.

Abstract: The present invention involves a lighter for preventing unintended use. In one aspect, a striker wheel including a rotation limiting means is provided, where an arc formed by the rotation limiting means is preferably greater than about 100° and less than or equal to about 220°. The rotation limiting means may comprise a single or multiple protrusions, a shield extending from one or more outer grip wheels, or a cover attached to a periphery of the striking wheel.

Abstract: A safety lighter includes two wheels axles coaxially supported on two sides of a spark wheel respectively. Two driving wheels, each having a receiving cavity provided on an out side of said driving wheel, are supported by two driven bodies of the wheel axles respectively wherein each driving wheel is adapted for turning on the respective driven body in a free rotating manner. Two positioning discs are disposed in the receiving cavities of the two driving wheels and firmly supported by the two driven bodies of the two wheel axles respectively wherein the positioning discs are adapted to hold the two driving wheels in position respectively, so as to prevent lateral movements of the driving wheels with respect to the wheel axles.

Abstract: A flint is easy to take out of a flint holder, which can be carried in a lighter. The flint holder consists of a holding part in the form of a thin plate, a fitting part and a molded hinge part, which integrally connects the holding and fitting parts in such a manner that they can bend. The holding part has parallel slots formed through it side by side at regular intervals. Each of the slots can be loaded with a columnar flint. The fitting part has a fitting hole, with which a screw can engage to fit the flint holder to the lighter.

Abstract: A safety lighter with improved rotary wheel hoods surrounding the striker wheel. The hoods must be urged downwardly and simultaneously rotated to engage and rotate the striker wheel. By varying the arrangement of the annular inner and outer surfaces of the hoods having either smooth surfaces or protuberances thereon with the annular unrecessed lateral portions of the striker wheel having either smooth surfaces or protuberances thereon, a multiplicity of embodiments may be achieved. Each embodiment requires a varying level of downward pressure and rotational forces to cause the lighter to spark and ignite.

Abstract: A lighter assembly especially suitable for burning butane gas as a fuel is provided in modular form which consists essentially of two unitary subassemblies which may be detachably mounted together to form the assembled lighter. The lighter assembly, which features low cost and structural simplicity, is constructed with the first subassembly comprising a hollow body defining a chamber for storing the fuel, an inlet valve assembly for inserting fuel into said chamber, a burner valve assembly for controlling emission of the fuel from said chamber, and a burner valve actuating arm for opening and closing the burner valve.

Abstract: This invention relates to the field of energy and is directed to a gas child-proof lighter, i.e. the lighter in which means for sparking neutralization are combined with a gas ignition mechanism. The gas lighter comprises a gas ignition device including a corrugated wheel secured on a shaft rotatably and movably mounted in profiled openings of body brackets, as well as a flint spring pressed toward the corrugated wheel. The cylindrical shaft of the corrugated wheel is mounted in said opening so as to move along a direction which is transverse relative to a direction of action of the flint spring, and in a direction coinciding with the direction of action of the flint spring. The opening is a convex polygon with a right angle between adjacent walls. The ends of the wall of corrugated wheel are provided with spigots having a polygonal surface.

Abstract: An improved safety mechanism of a lighter contains an idle wheel with coarse grains, pivoted on two ratchet arms on the top end face of the lighter; a seat right below the idle wheel; a tension spring received within the seat and a flint bar provided between the tension spring and the idle wheel. The oval axle of the idle wheel of an oval shape is loosely inserted in a smaller hole at the upper portion of an egg shaped slot on the two ratchet arms, the portion of the egg shaped slot being bigger gradually downward. Upon lighting up, an appropriate counterbalance force against the spring tension is applied for the oval axle of the idle wheel to shift downward into the lower portion of the egg shaped slot and then the idle wheel may be rotated to rub against the flint bar to effect ignition.

Abstract: A fire-lighting device includes a jetting nozzle for jetting fuel gas, a gas passage for fuel gas to be burned extending from a fuel tank to the jetting nozzle, and a sintered filter made of sintered powder inserted in the gas passage upstream of a small-diameter portion. Provision of the sintered filter prevents obstruction of fuel supply by foreign matter clogging the gas passage at a nozzle plate of the jetting nozzle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a spark wheel type gas lighter comprising a lighter body, a reservoir, a valve permitting gas to leave the reservoir, an ignition system comprising a pyrophoric flint co-operating with a spark wheel and a spring maintaining the flint against the spark wheel, a lever pivotally mounted on an axis essentially parallel to the axis of rotation of the spark wheel and co-operating with the valve and the axis of the lever is mounted movably with respect to the body of the lighter between an active position permitting the operation of the valve mounted on the reservoir and a rest position in which action on the lever does not permit operation of the valve, the spark wheel can be displaced with respect to the body of the lighter, and operate the lever in its movement, and elastic means act on the lever and/or on the spark wheel to return them to a position of rest in which the lever does not act on the valve.

Abstract: A gas lighter having a safety device includes a lighter body that includes a fuel emission portion for emitting fuel from a fuel well, a piezoelectric unit having an ignition pushbutton and a shoulder portion, and a cutaway portion on a top part of the body. A cap is arranged on the cutaway portion such that the cap can be depressed to depress the ignition pushbutton. A lock member positioned between the cap and ignition pushbutton, over the ignition pushbutton, includes a resilient leg at one end and a rigid leg at another end. An end of the rigid leg urged into a position over the shoulder portion of the piezoelectric unit by the resilient leg, is moved from this position over the shoulder portion to a position away from the piezoelectric unit by operating the lock member against the urging force of the resilient leg.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for providing more uniform lighter spark wheel actuation. Uniform actuation is facilitated in the apparatus according to the invention by reducing the resistance encountered from the rotation of the flint on its axis due to the screw-thread-like action of the cutting member on the flint. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a non-rotatable pyrophoric flint is utilized which illustratively includes a body having a non-circular cross section.

Abstract: A safety lighter with an improved striker wheel and striker wheel mounting frame. The lighter has an igniter having a striker wheel which rotates about an axis in response to force applied to the wheel by a user's finger. The annular recessed center portion of the striker wheel's outer annular surface has protuberances formed thereon (or grooves formed therein), while the annular unrecessed lateral portions of the striker wheel's outer annular surface are smooth. Further, the striker wheel is mounted to the lighter in slots. The striker wheel is pressed from a first position having insufficient spring force to cause the lighter flint to spark when the striker wheel is rotated into a second position having sufficient spring force to cause the lighter flint to spark when the striker wheel is rotated.

Abstract: A child resistant safety lighter is provided which includes a detent on the spark wheel of the lighter which inhibits rotation of the spark wheel in its operative direction when the spark wheel is in a first locked or inoperative position. The spark wheel must be rotated in its inoperative direction (i.e., direction opposite its operative direction) by a selected number of degrees, which number of degrees is preferably defined by a second detent on the spark wheel which interacts with the flint to define a second cocked or operative position for the spark wheel. The spark wheel may then be rotated in its operative direction from the second position to the first position to operate the lighter and to also return the lighter to its locked position.

Abstract: A striker wheel assembly mounting structure including a wheel axle mounted between two upright supports at the top of a butane wheel, two driving wheels mounted around the wheel axle between the upright supports, and a striker wheel fixedly mounted around the wheel axle and disposed in contact with a spring-supported flint below and turned by the driving wheels through the wheel axle to strike the spring-supported flint in producing sparks, wherein the wheel axle is made of polygonal cross section, having two round rods at two opposite ends loosely inserted into a respective axle hole on each upright support; the driving wheels have a center through holes of bigger diameter relative to the wheel axle for passing the wheel axle, at least one center through hole of the driving wheels is a polygonal center through so arranged that the driving wheels run idle when turned without being depressed, or turned to rotate the wheel axle and the striker wheel when depressed.

Abstract: A system and method for generating special effects showers of sparks for use in theme park shows and rides. A flint rod is biased with fluid pressure against a cutting wheel of this system. When a clutch is actuated for a brief predetermined time period, a constant high speed motor is operatively connected to the cutting wheel, rapidly rotating it. The rotating wheel cuts, ignites and discharges small portions of the flint rod biased thereagainst away therefrom in a stream of sparks. An air stream directs the stream of sparks out as a special effects shower of sparks. One embodiment of this system propels the spark stream out through a venturi nozzle. By changing the gas stream fluid pressure and/or the clutch connect time and/or the flint rod biasing pressure and/or the clutch connect/disconnect interval timing, the size and characteristics of the shower of sparks can be accurately controlled and altered as desired.

Abstract: The invention is a flint replaceable lighter. In a preferred embodiment the invented lighter includes a lighter body including means for containing fuel. Fitted upon it is a striker wheel assembly including a striker wheel, a striker wheel support superstructure into which the striker wheel is inserted and a hollow support shaft disposed below said superstructure. A flint is loosely disposed in the support shaft, with the upper end of a spring inserted in the support shaft below the flint. The spring urges the flint against the striker wheel above it. When the user removes the spring, the spent flint may be removed and a new one inserted into the shaft. The spring is then reinserted into the shaft as well. The lighter body is outfitted with a means for releasably receiving the striker wheel assembly.

Abstract: A pocket lighter in which the spark wheel which may produce sparks on rotating in a first direction and rubbing on the pyrophoric stone, apart from being rotatable, is movable between a first position in which it is blocked from rotating in the first direction, and a second position in which it may rotate in said first direction, producing sparks directed towards the valve. The wheel is urged towards said first position when being actuated to rotate in said first direction and to pass to said second position, said wheel should first be rotated in a direction opposite to said first direction. Preferably the positions of the spark wheel are associated with the positions of the end stubs of the shaft thereof in some housings.

Abstract: A safety lighter is disclosed. The lighter comprises a lighter body, a nozzle, a mounting frame disposed on the lighter body, and an actuating lever which is pivotally mounted on the mounting frame. The front end of the lever grips the nozzle and moves it from its lower position, where gas cannot escape from said nozzle, to the nozzle's upper position where gas is ejected from said nozzle when the rear end of the lever is depressed. The rear end of the lever has a downwardly extending leg. A sliding member is reciprocatingly mounted on the lighter body between a first position in which the rear end of the lever cannot be depressed because the leg contacts the sliding member and a second position in which an inclined surface leading to a hole in the sliding member is located below the leg. When the sliding member is in the second position and the rear end of the lever is depressed, the leg engages the inclined surface and pushes the sliding member downward and backward until the leg can travel into the hole.

Abstract: When a lighter of the present invention is not in use, push-down means is kept positioned on one end side of lift-up means and has a lower end abutting against a lighter body to set a locked state to restrict a push-down action. As the push-down means is moved along the lift-up means toward the other end thereof, the locked state is released and the position of that movement of the push-down means toward the other end of the lift-up means is maintained by its relationship with respect to the lighter body or the lift-up means. When the push-down means is then pushed down, the lift-up means is rotated to open the valve means and ignition means is activated at a same time to ignite the fuel injected through the valve means. When that downward action of the push-down means is released, the push-down means moves upward to the original state while moving toward the one end of the lift-up means returning by the urging force of an elastic member along the lift-up means.

Abstract: A safety mechanism for a lighter which mechanism makes it difficult for infants or children to create a fire with the lighter. The safety mechanism is simple in construction, reliable and acceptable for the proper user of the lighter.

Abstract: A gas lighter which operates by depressing an operating lever to lift a gas pipe thereby opening a gas release valve while a spark is generated by simultaneous rotation of a striker wheel in engagement with a flint has a safety mechanism for ensuring that the valve is closed when the operating lever is released. The safety mechanism includes a spring element which urges the operating lever out of engagement with the gas pipe in the released position.

Abstract: A gas lighter with a safety device has a lock member which is able to linearly move between a locking position where it prevents depression of a valve lever and a releasing position where it allows depression of the valve lever and is urged to the locking position. A holding member hold the lock member in the releasing position in response to movement of the lock member to the releasing position, and a releasing member releases the lock member from the holding member in response to depression of the valve lever, thereby permitting the lock member to move away from the releasing position. A temporary holding member temporarily holds the lock member in the releasing position or the vicinity thereof until the valve lever returns to the original position.

Abstract: A safety mechanism for a lighter which mechanism makes it difficult for infants or children to create a fire with the lighter. The safety mechanism is simple in construction, reliable and acceptable for the proper user of the lighter.

Abstract: A safety mechanism for a lighter which mechanism makes it difficult for infants or children to create a fire with the lighter. The safety mechanism is simple in construction, reliable and acceptable for the proper user of the lighter. The safety mechanism comprises a gas lever movable to and away from a gas nozzle, said gas lever being provided at a front end thereof with a nozzle lifting portion, said nozzle lifting portion being engaged with said gas nozzle when said gas lever has been moved forward, a spring disposed between said gas lever and a lighter body, said spring pushing said gas lever away from said gas nozzle, said lighter body having a lever engagement portion, said lever engagement portion engaging with said gas lever when said gas lever has been moved forward and said nozzle lifting portion thereof has been engaged with said gas nozzle, said lever engagement portion disengaging from said gas lever when said gas lever has been turned in the direction of lifting said gas nozzle.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter comprises a housing bounding an inner space, and an actuating unit accommodated in the space and including a push-button, a lever mechanism connected with the push-button, a strike flint, a striking wheel connected with the lever mechanism, and a hood also connected with the lever mechanism, the lever mechanism being formed so that the hood opens for releasing a space for a flame and the striking wheel is turned for striking against the flint by different angles.

Abstract: A non-refillable gas lighter includes a member made of dry powdered metal and having a gas throughput according to the limited height of flame inserted in the flow route of the gas in the burner body upstream of the burner mouth which can be closed by a valve tappet. A helicoidal spring is disposed in an area of a push-buttom and a flint. One projecting end of the spring grips under the flint and presses the flint against a sparking wheel and another projecting end of the spring grips operatively in closing-direction on the push-button.

Abstract: This lighter is of the type having on its housing in which is provided a reservoir containing the gas in liquid form a head comprising in addition to the burner valve (10) connected with the reservoir via a pressure reducer an igniting mechanism comprising control means (4) for the opening of the burner valve (10) and means for making sparks (2, 3, 4, 8, 11) and in which associated with the igniting mechanism is means (8) for neutralizing this mechanism and displaceable between an active neutralizing position for the igniting mechanism and a retracted position, these neutralizing means (8) being displaceable manually by the user from their active position to the retracted position. The neutralizing means (8) of the igniting mechanism are normally maintained in the neutralizing position and are in addition set up so as to be automatically returned to the neutralizing position after actuation of the igniting mechanism.

Abstract: An improved lighter comprising a resiliently based operating member 71 drivingly coupled to a striker wheel 51 and a control plate 40 for a gas valve 30. The operating member causes the striker wheel to turn against a flint 61 and also presses the control plate downward to release the gas valve for permitting butane gas to escape for ignition. The operating member prevents a finger from coming into direct contact with the striker wheel. A cover is provided above the control plate to protect it from being accidentally displaced.

Abstract: An ignition system comprising a metal plate having a pyrogen on one side thereof, a turning shaft journalled by the plate, and a sparking wheel secured to the shaft. A flint is supported by the plate and pressed against the wheel. An opening is formed in the plate adjacent the wheel, and a screen is formed on the plate adjacent the opening. The screen deflects sparks through the opening to the pyrogen, and the screen is preferably angled to efficiently deflect the sparks. The igniter is mounted in a self-heating container for heating food or a liquid.

Abstract: A lighter including a machine housing, a nozzle assembly, an adjusting assembly, a grinding assembly and a filling assembly is provided to provide a flame having an inner flame and an outer flame and uneasy to be blown out. A burning tube is provided to mount at the intermediate portion thereof a disturbing disk defining thereabove a combustion chamber and decelerating the mixed air and gas to provide the inner flame in the combustion chamber.

Abstract: An igniter assembly is disclosed for detachable mounting on and use with a standard gas torch. The subject igniter can be actuated from a point remote from the torch nozzle to cause a shower of sparks above and across the torch nozzle to effect ignition of a gaseous mixture flowing from the torch.

Abstract: A throwaway type gas lighter is disclosed which comprises a windbreak, a fuel tank filled with a liquefied fuel gas, a spark generating mechanism including a rasp wheel and a spring-biased flint, fuel supplying means including a fuel injection pipe for supplying the fuel gas from the fuel tank, an outer valve member made of elastic resilient material and sealingly surrounding the fuel injection pipe for selectively preventing the fuel gas from flowing and allowing the same to flow therethrough when the outer valve member is suitably deformed, and fuel supply adjusting means for adjusting the fuel flow rate in the fuel injection pipe whereby when the outer valve member is actuated and the rasp wheel is rotated, the ignition is completed.

Abstract: A lighter has a housing formed with a flame opening, a fuel supply for feeding fuel to a point at which a flame is formed in the opening, a friction wheel mounted on the housing, and a first guide formed in the housing along a radius of the wheel, a flint being provided in the first guide and being displaceable therein for engagement with the wheel adjacent the point. A second guide is formed in the housing parallel to the first guide and offset therefrom, the second guide being provided with a flint spring. A displaceable offset pushrod is provided between the flint and the spring, the pushrod having a first portion extending into the first guide and engaging the flint and a second portion extending into the second guide and engaging the spring, the first and second portions being joined by a third portion lying substantially perpendicular to the first and second portions.

Abstract: A gas lighter emits a flame angled away from an ignition device thereof, the lighter having a gas tank provided with a burner tube centered on an upright axis and formed at the upper end thereof with a flat collar lying transverse to the axis and a flat annular seal provided on an upper surface of the collar. A stamped burner cap is provided at the upper end of the burner tube enclosing the seal, the cap having an upwardly converging conical portion centered on the axis and surrounded by a flat base portion lying parallel to the collar and bearing on an upper surface of the seal, the base portion having a downwardly extending skirt lying parallel to the axis and surrounding the collar, the skirt being formed with inwardly bent shoulders engaging beneath a lower surface of the collar, the conical portion of the cap being formed with a gas orifice at an angle to the axis.

Abstract: A gas lighter comprises a fuel injection pipe member having a main passage and at least one radial lateral passage, a fuel tank for liquefied fuel gas, a valve member made of resilient, flexible material and sealingly surrounding the fuel injection pipe member for selectively preventing the fuel gas from flowing therethrough and allowing the fuel gas to flow therethrough when the valve member is suitably deformed, a spark generating mechanism for generating a spark, having a tubular body, a flint, a spring and a knurled wheel, the spring disposed in a hollow cylindrical space of said tubular body for urging the flint toward the knurled wheel, a windbreak for substantially enclosing the fuel injection pipe member and retaining the spark generating mechanism therein so that the mechanism is movable downwardly against the spring, guide means for assisting the up and down movement of mechanism spark generating, and valve actuating means for deforming the valve member, including a camming surface for tilting the f

Abstract: A gas fueled lighter having a cylindrical body with a central bore forming a gas passage and a valve port. A check valve blocks flow from a reservoir to the passage, and contains a metering plug to pass gas to the passage. A valve plug threaded and sealed in the bore opens and closes the valve port. Such plug carries a turnknob head, contains a burner port from the gas passage, and carries a flame shield which supports a striker wheel. A flint is pressed against the wheel by a spring supported by a retainer plate on the valve plug. A cap threaded onto the body over the head has threads with the same lead as the valve plug threads so that if the cap is screwed onto the body when the valve is open, the cap will drivingly rotate the valve plug to closed position. A bottom flange on the cap and an O-ring in the body form a secondary seal to prevent fuel leakage and exclude dirt and moisture.

Abstract: An igniting device wherein an elongated and hollow tubular body member is fixed at one longitudinal end to a gasifiable fuel container, a rotary member having an axial shaft extended at an end to the other extended end of the body member is rotatably born adjacent the fixed end of the body member, and gasified fuel discharged at the extended end of the body member is ignited by a flame generating means which cooperates with the extended end of the shaft of the rotary member. The flame generating means thus disposed at a remote end from the fuel container utilized as gripping part of the device enables it possible to ignite easily and reliably even burners located relatively deeply inside gas equipments.

Abstract: A torch igniter for attachment to a torch nozzle having a nozzle tip through which a fuel is passed includes an igniter attachment on which a flint and abrading wheel is mounted. The flint is biased against the rim of the abrading wheel at a location thereon generally facing the nozzle tip so that rotation of the wheel generates sparks which are projected in front of the nozzle tip to ignite the fuel passing therefrom. A small electric or pneumatic motor may be connected to the flint wheel to rotate the wheel upon energization of the motor. Compressed gas fed to the torch nozzle may be utilized to drive the pneumatic motor; electric batteries are provided in the case of an electric motor. The igniter attachment is fixedly positioned rearwardly of the nozzle tip and laterally offset therefrom so that the attachment and motor are not adversely affected by the flame.