Abstract: A safety gas lighter with a ratchet-pawl mechanism comprises a lighter body, a fuel supply means, an ignition means and a safety device. The safety device includes a pivoting axle, an internal ratchet rotating together with the axle and being attached to one side of the axle, a pawl member having engage pawls, being selectively engaged with ratchet teeth of ratchet and also having two cylinders protruding from the pawl member, and a safety hood, one side of which is installed by fitting coupling holes over cylinders and one end of the axle and another side of which on another end of the axle.

Abstract: A safety gas lighter with a ratchet-pawl mechanism comprises a lighter body, a fuel supply means, an ignition means and a safety device. The safety device includes a pivoting axle, an internal ratchet rotating together with the axle and being attached to one side of the axle, a pawl member having engage pawls, being selectively engaged with ratchet teeth of ratchet and also having two cylinders protruding from the pawl member, and a safety hood, one side of which is installed by fitting coupling holes over cylinders and one end of the axle and another side of which on another end of the axle.

Abstract: A lighter having a safety device comprises an internal ratchet, a pawl and a safety hood therein a cavity of the internal ratchet provided an internal toothed ring; on the pawl being in the form of “S”, there are two projecting cylinders and a central hole; on the safety hood being in the form of a semicircle, there are two opened legs and two small holes; the internal ratchet and the spark wheel are side by side mounted on the pivoting axle so that the pawl is located in the internal toothed ring; two end tips of the pawl and the teeth of the internal ratchet are engaged, whereby forming a one-way drive mechanism; the spark wheel, the internal ratchet and the pawl are covered by the safety hood