Abstract: The present invention is a lamp apparatus that includes a reservoir for flammable liquids and a wick that can be incorporated with a post and within the cap of a post, such as a deck or fence post. The apparatus can include an external housing that attaches to a post and contains and conceals the internal components of the lamp apparatus within the external housing. This external housing can resemble and function as the cap of a post. The apparatus may allow for a user to remove a snuffing cap from the top of the external housing and ignite the lamp's wick, which then allows the post to function as a torch. The apparatus may also allow for a user to place the snuffing cap back on the top of the external housing to extinguish the flame and discreetly conceal that a lamp is contained within the cap of the post.

Abstract: A metallic wick includes at least one mesh member having first and second ends disposed opposite to each other, first and second surfaces respectively extended from the first end to the second end thereof and arranged opposite to each other, a plurality of meshes penetrating the first and second surfaces between the first and second ends thereof; and a transport channel extending from the first end to the second end thereof and drawing fuel by capillary action.

Abstract: A torch has a fuel container with a reservoir and a top cover. The top cover defines a first wick passage, a first fill hole, and a guide slot. A fire bowl is positioned atop the fuel container and defines a second wick passage, a second fill hole, and a guide member. At least one open rotational position is allowed between the fuel container and fire bowl such that the first and second fill holes are aligned to allow fluid into the reservoir via the fill holes. At least one closed rotational position is allowed between the fuel container and the fire bowl such that the first and second fill holes are out of alignment substantially blocking fluid flow into or out of the reservoir via the fill holes.

Abstract: A device for producing a stable and augmented flame includes a fluid-inducing assembly and a shield. The fluid-inducing assembly includes a flow-diverting mechanism defining a flow-intake end and a flow-accelerating end and includes a plurality of vanes extending from the flow-intake end to the flow-accelerating end. The plurality of vanes is circumferentially disposed and spaced from one another. Furthermore, two vanes include a space defined therebetween, and the space defines a passage which is spiral-shaped. The flow-diverting mechanism further includes a covering member with an enclosed circumferential edge circumferentially surrounded. Thus, each vane in the flow-accelerating end is encircled by the covering member, and each vane in the flow-intake end is exposed to outside and not covered by the covering member. In addition, the shield is hollow and is disposed above the fluid-inducing assembly.

Abstract: Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to provide tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. In some circumstances, the tobacco may be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.

Abstract: A torch has a fuel container with a reservoir and a top cover. The top cover defines a first wick passage, a first fill hole, and a guide slot. A fire bowl is positioned atop the fuel container and defines a second wick passage, a second fill hole, and a guide member. At least one open rotational position is allowed between the fuel container and fire bowl such that the first and second fill holes are aligned to allow fluid into the reservoir via the fill holes. At least one closed rotational position is allowed between the fuel container and the fire bowl such that the first and second fill holes are out of alignment substantially blocking fluid flow into or out of the reservoir via the fill holes.

Abstract: A device having a flame bowl surrounded by a first, inner shroud. The device includes a shell having a second, outer shroud on an upper portion thereof, the outer shroud circumscribing at least a portion of the first shroud, and a support supporting the flame bowl and the first shroud in a fixed relationship with respect to the outer shroud.

Abstract: A device with a flame bowl for a torch having a torch body containing a fuel supply. A fitting attaches to the flame bowl for interfacing with the fuel supply. A perforated support affixes the flame bowl in an elevated position relative to a portion of the torch body.

Abstract: An assembly is provided whereby a candle holder is supported within a bottle and the bottle has no bottom and a single assembly supports both the candle holder and bottle.

Abstract: An oil burning lamp has a fuel reservoir, a fuel expansion chamber releasably and sealingly coupled to the fuel reservoir, a burner assembly coupled to the fuel expansion chamber, and an adjustable wick. If the fuel in the fuel reservoir undergoes thermal expansion, it flows into the fuel expansion chamber, thereby preventing fuel leaks and spills. In the preferred embodiment, the burner assembly is permanently coupled to the fuel expansion chamber, thereby preventing users from refueling the lamp while the lamp is burning. The fuel expansion chamber also serves as an overflow fuel chamber, so that if the lamp is inadvertently knocked over, the fuel will flow into the fuel expansion chamber, not out of the lamp.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for controlling a flame. One embodiment comprises a reservoir for a flame-fueling liquid, a wick, and a collar surrounding the wick. The first end of the wick is within the reservoir and a flame-bearing end is above the first end. Flame-fueling liquid is supplied to the reservoir and is communicated up the wick to fuel a flame emanating from the flame-bearing end of the wick. The collar is slidable along a vertical axis between a first and second position. In the first position, the top of the collar is located above the flame-bearing end of the wick to block the flow of air from reaching the wick. In the second position, the top of the collar is located blow the flame-bearing end of the wick, such that it does not substantially block the flow of air from reaching the wick.

Abstract: A lighter is disclosed as including a body and an button, the body including a piezo electric unit and a container for containing fuel under pressure, the body further including an at which a flame may he produced upon movement of the button relative to the body, and the button is slidable relative to the body parallel to a longitudinal axis of the body, and the button has an outer surface which may be operated by a user to slide the button relative to the body, and the outer surface of the button is generally orthogonal to the end of the body, and wherein the button is generally as long as the body.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder combustion structure for an oil burner capable of permitting a red-heated section of a double combustion cylinder to be uniformly red-heated while ensuring complete combustion irrespective of the amount of combustion, to thereby exhibit satisfactory aesthetic and handling characteristics. The structure includes a central cylinder which is provided with a plurality of circumferentially-extending strip-like perforated sections and a plurality of circumferentially-extending strip-like non-perforated sections in a manner to vertically alternate with one another.

Abstract: A forced draft gas burning water and/or space heater having a screen type vertically extending tubular burner provided with a deflector plate supported transversely within the burner tube for free vertical sliding movement therein on a vertical extending guide rod mounted in the burner tube. At the outset of each heating cycle of the heater, the pressurized combustible gas/air mixture initially forced upwardly into the open lower end of the burner tube pushes the deflector plate upwardly therein along the guide rod and is deflected thereby laterally outward through the apertured screen wall of the burner tube into the bottom region of the combustion chamber of the heater to cause immediate ignition of the initial combustible gas/air mixture by the igniter means located within the combustion chamber and eliminate any sputtering ignition effect.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an outer control cylinder inwards of a vaporizing portion, and accordingly, radical deterioration of the CO/CO.sub.2 characteristic can be prevented. Furthermore, the air control cylinder is divided into plural stages one above the other and has a through aperture in the lowermost stage connecting said lowermost stage with an inner air path, and at the same time, the outer control cylinder is formed with through holes. Therefore, the combustion equipment of the present invention has a large range of adjustment the combustion volume, and is safe and comfortable in use.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion equipment to be employed for heating in domestic use or the like. The combustion equipment is provided with an air control cylinder having a closed bottom surface inwards of an inner flame cylinder, and an outer control cylinder inwards of a vaporizing portion, and accordingly, radical deterioration of the CO/CO.sub.2 characteristic can be prevented. Furthermore, the air control cylinder is divided into plural stages one above the other and has a through aperture in the lowermost stage connecting said lowermost stage with an inner air path, and at the same time, the outer control cylinder is formed with through holes. Therefore, the combustion equuipment of the present invention has a large range of adjustment of the combustion volume, and is safe and comfortable in use.

Abstract: An elongated tubular body is provided into which a lighter is adapted to be received either (a) with its flame-producing parts exposed beyond the tubular body when there is no wind or (b) received within the tubular body when there is wind, the tubular body being provided, for the latter situation, with an opening through which the flame producing mechanism is manually accessible and another opening through which the produced flame is accessible.

Abstract: An improvement is provided in a disposable lighter having a fuel receptacle, a pyrophoric sparking wheel lighting mechanism mounted on the top edge thereof, and a finger-actuated fuel-control valve adjacent the sparking wheel. The improvement is provided by a windshield of similar cross-section to that of the receptacle and slidably retained between upper and lower stop members on the receptacle, the windshield comprising two solid side walls, a solid back wall, an open top and an open front wall the solid side walls having a thumb-access cut-away portion, the open front wall having a cigarette-access opening above the cut-away portion of the side walls, the windshield being between about 50% and about 100% and preferably about 100% of the height of the receptacle. This provides a screen to enable the lighter to be lit even in strong winds.

Abstract: A jacket for receiving a cigarette lighter has a sliding windscreen which can be slid up from the jacket when the lighter is lit, to shield the lighter flame from the wind. The top of the windscreen has a chimney hole for venting the lighter flame. A cap made of a heat-resistant material is mounted on the top of the windscreen and snap-fit into the chimney hole, to provide an insulating effect so that the finger is not burned when pushing the windscreen down into the jacket after the lighter has been used, and to provide improved finger purchase and feel when pushing down the windscreen. Alternatively, the windscreen is topless and has an outwardly directed peripheral flange for finger purchase with low heat transfer to the finger.

Abstract: A lighter case having a windshield is provided. The lighter case includes a hollow case member adapted to receive therein a lighter through a top opening thereof and a windshield member adapted to be received in the case member and to receive therein at least a part of the lighter through an open side portion thereof. The case member includes a side opening for facilitating access to the windshield therethrough of the finger of a user and the windshield member includes an open bottom, so that the windshield can be slidably displaced in the longitudinal direction with respect to the case member.