Abstract: A cigarette lighter, including a gas nozzle mounted on a housing, and a rotatable spark-producing wheel engaged with a flint to deliver a spark toward the gas nozzle. The wheel carries a structure which engages the flint-supporting structure in such a way as to limit the rotation of the wheel unless it is rotated in the opposite direction, such that a child playing with the lighter will encounter difficulty in producing a spark when the wheel is disposed so as to be nonrotatable in the direction in which it delivers a spark to the nozzle.

Abstract: A disposable lighter has an elongated body and an L-shaped clip that has a dual purpose of actuating a release valve for gaseous fuel and securing the lighter within a user's pocket. Simplicity in design renders the device easy to manufacture, reliable in performance, and disposable after exhaustion of the fuel supply.

Abstract: Cigarette type lighter has the ability to work as a conventional gas lighter or without fuel by producing cinders from a flint. A lever along the side of the lighter allows selection of mode of operation. Flints may be stored within the lighter housing.

Abstract: Firelighting apparatus for lighting fires comprising a holder for use in combination with a lighter of the type having a separate rotatable flint sticker and a movable fuel valve. The holder includes a first elongate member having a mounting adjacent its remote end for removably mounting the lighter thereto. A second elongate member has mounted adjacent its remote end a frictional engaging member. The first and second elongate members are mounted for relative longitudinal movement therebetween such that relative movement in one direction causes the frictional engaging member to consecutively rotate the flint striker and engage the fuel valve to light the lighter and relative movement in the opposite direction to extinguish the lighter.

Abstract: A gas warmer for use in cold regions which can be carried on the body and uses gas as fuel. The warmer comprises a closed container filled with gas fuel, and having igniter means similar to that of a cigarette lighter. In addition, the warmer contains a flow-controlled gas outlet pipe coupled to an external retainer for holding a roll of metallic cotton. When the igniter is lit, the metallic cotton is heated to incandescence. Gas fed to the metallic cotton heating element keeps the cotton in incandescence as long as the gas flow continues, even after the igniter is turned off.

Abstract: A valve for a cigaret gas lighter is comprised of a flexible gas conduit extending between a nozzle and a gas tank. The flexible gas conduit is pinched or bent to close the conduit. An operating member pinches or bends the gas conduit to close the conduit by a spring. A manually operable lever is provided to open the conduit by removing the operating member overcoming the spring force. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the conduit is positively opened in addition to removal of the operating member when the gas lighter is to be ignited.

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 flame igniter for lighting barbecues, gas fireplaces and other devices which tend to flash and therefore require remote ignition. The igniter includes a cylindrical, liquefied gas, fuel reservoir having a plug and valve assembly positioned in one end for filling from commercial containers having various nozzle designs and also for emergency pressure release, and a similar plug in the opposite end, a portion of which forms a valve seat against which a metal valve needle can be actuated to release and regulate fuel into a long thin burner tube, which exits adjacent a removable modular igniter assembly with a confortably operating spark wheel. The burner tube is connected to the source of liquefied gas by the valve and a relatively long tube beneath the valve.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter including an ignition system of which a striking member support wheel (14) is pivotally supported (17, 18) by a lighter body (10) for pivotal movement in conjunction with the opening and closing movement of a cover (23), to enable the ignition system to be enclosed by the cover when the latter is closed. The lighter further includes a nozzle (11) urged at all times to move upwardly to allow gas to issue therethrough, and a regulating member (20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31) for the cover operative to move the nozzle downwardly by its underside, so that the nozzle can be automatically moved upwardly to allow gas to issue therethrough when the cover is opened and can be automatically moved downwardly to stop the issuing gas when the cover is closed.

Abstract: A torch lamp having a fuel container, an evaporation section and a handle for supporting the container. A spouting body is attached to the fuel pouring hole in the container. The spouting body is provided with an ignition device and an adjusting valve. A supply pipe extends from the spouting body into the container.

Abstract: A holder for a lighter having a flint and a striking wheel which ignites the fuel contained in the lighter upon rotation of the wheel. One embodiment of the invention includes an elongated frame having an open receptacle at one end. The receptacle is configured to securely retain the lighter during use. The holder also includes an elongated striker movably secured to the frame and adapted for rotating the striking wheel when driven longitudinally during use.

Abstract: A gas lighter has a pistol-shaped casing that contains a gas cartridge in line with a mouthpiece which simulates a muzzle and forms a hood overhanging a striker wheel coacting with a spring-pressed flint. The striker wheel is clamped between cheeks of a reel which is eccentrically linked with a slider having an actuator in the shape of a trigger and trigger guard, the latter being articulated to a toggle joint urged by a transverse spring into a nearly straight-line position whereby a squeezing of the trigger results in an accelerating rotation of the wheel against the flint. The slider also opens a shut-off valve at the cartridge to allow the outflow of gas which is ignited by sparks from the flint hurled toward the hood.

Abstract: On one end face of a case, a heating unit, a burner and a firing portion are aligned in this order, and a tubular windshield is mounted on the end face of the case to surround substantially entirely the burner. The windshield has formed therein an opening on the side of the heating unit, through which a lighter flame emitted from the burner is directed to the heating unit to set it alight when the case is turned down so that the heating unit lies above the burner.

Abstract: A gas pressure regulator for a butane lighter or other gas burner is created by the interaction of two superposed washers and an underlying flat retainer disc. A compressed elastomeric washer exerts pressure on a more rigid washer having a distal textured face in contact with an opposing face of the retainer disc. Gas flows through the interstitial array between said textured face and the opposing face of the retainer disc and a net pressure differential is effected.

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: The piezoelectric generator and the spark electrodes are assembled as an integral unit, the electrodes being at the upper end of the unit and projecting upwardly while the actuating button of the current generator projects downwardly from the lower end of the unit. The unit is movable vertically. When upward pressure is exerted on the button the unit moves to an upper position at which the electrodes are adjacent the gas burner and upon reaching that position continued upward pressure on the button actuates the current generator. When the button is released the unit descends by gravity to a lower position at which the electrodes are spaced away from the flame of the burning gas.

Abstract: A gas lighter is provided wherein a bomb which is filled with a gas-evolving liquid and which is provided with a nozzle for discharging vaporized gas is detachably attached to one side of a body having on its upper portion an ignition device comprising a flint and an ignition file, and a member which is made to engage and disengage the nozzle of said bomb so as to open and close a discharge hole is slidably or fixedly attached to an ignition portion of said body. As a flame-adjusting member, used is a member provided on its periphery with a rotatable tooth form portion, which is fitted into a tooth-like support portion of the body.

Abstract: A fluid flow control valve for use in liquified gas-filled lighters or the like to limit the maximum rate of flow, and corresponding height of flame, as a function of the degree of compression of a filter mass through which the gas must flow, including simple means for varying the degree of compression and a stop to establish a predetermined maximum flow rate.

Abstract: A lighting device for disposing a flame in hard-to-get-at or remote places is disclosed. As a source of combustible fluid, readily disposable-type cigarette lighters, having a fixed supply of gaseous fuel under pressure are utilized.

Abstract: A gas lighter is formed by a head assembly which incorporates all of the valving, regulation and ignition functions and is slidably and detachably connected to a fuel cartridge having a valve assembly through which the head assembly is fluidly coupled to the fuel supply. The fuel cartridge may be stored indefinitely apart from the head assembly, and may be either disposed of and replaced, or refilled, when its fuel is exhausted.

Abstract: A disposable cigaret lighter has a snuffing cover which is closed when the flame is to be put out. The snuffing cover is provided on the top of the lighter independent of any of the operating members of the lighter such as a nozzle opening lever and a sparking wheel. The snuffing cover may be mounted on the windbreak wall of the lighter slidably or rotatably.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter comprising a body forming a fuel container, a burner, ignition means, and a cap hinged to the body. The body and the cap have the same cross-section. One of the two parts formed by the body and the cap carries a collar into which the other part is engaged in the closed position of the cigarette lighter. The hinge between the body and the cap is inclosed within the space comprised between said two parts.

Abstract: A manually operated gas lighter for use for lighting barbecues, fireplaces, camp fires, ovens, and the like, which once ignited can be maintained ignited by providing a locking member to positively maintain the valve actuator in its depressed position. The locking member circumscribes the lighter body so as to be relatively rotated with respect to the lighter body, and which circumscribing member is provided with a slot which is constructed to receive and lock the valve actuator in its igniting position by effecting a predetermined relative rotational movement between the lighter and the circumscribing member.

Abstract: A gas nozzle for a gas-using appliance containing a passage for gas formed at least in part in two members which are relatively rotatable while remaining in contact with one another over a surface of contact presented by each member. The passage in each member has a debouchment at the surface of contact on that member eccentric with respect to the axis of relative rotation of the members.

Abstract: A lighter of the disposable type is disclosed for burning a fuel such as butane contained in a body member which defines an internal fuel chamber having an opening through which the fuel may pass and including a dual action valve which controls the flow of gaseous butane fuel to a burner in either of two modes. The first mode includes an "on/off" fuel control lever; the second mode includes a variable fuel flow control member which determines the height of the flame produced at an output orifice of a burner by a sparking wheel and sparking flint by controlling the amount of fuel passed therethrough as a function of the rotational position of a rotatable control member. The lighter further comprises novel means to pre-determine the height range of the flame thus produced, by limiting the rotational range of travel of the flame height control member.

Abstract: A cigarette lighter is disclosed having a body defining a fuel reservoir and a threaded passageway extending from the reservoir to the body exterior. An insert is threaded at least partially into the passageway and a set of bendable tabs secured thereabout along a common plane exteriorly of the body. Stop means are provided for limiting rotary movement of the insert through engagement with a member of the set of bendable tabs bent off the common plane. A valve stem is movably disposed within a cavity in the insert with a portion of the valve stem projecting to the exterior thereof. An actuating lever is coupled with the valve stem and interlocked with a fulcrum.

Abstract: By externally mounting a resiliently flexible member about a valve stem so as to biasingly engage the valve stem with the valve housing in the closed position, a unique, self-contained, captured valve assembly is provided. In the preferred embodiment, the flexible biasing member comprises a rubber material which peripherally surrounds the valve stem and the valve housing. This valve assembly is particularly useful in gas lighters of the butane fuel type, since the preferred embodiment provides a seal against leakage and secondary ignition.

Abstract: A self-contained gas torch designed to be held in the hand like a pencil for carrying out precision work.A gas fired hand-torch of the type comprising a gas reservoir and a burner fitted with an air intake adjustment and a gas intake adjustment, in which a gas inlet tube opens at its free end substantially at the center of the internal volume of the gas reservoir designed to be completely filled with a quantity of liquid gas slightly smaller in volume than half the internal volume of the reservoir.

Abstract: Lighter comprising a fuid-tight casing containing liquified gas under pressure, a valve member slidably mounted in said casing and having a compressible porous member forming a pressure reducing means which, in a first position of said valve member, is separated from said liquified gas under pressure and which, in a second position of the valve member, is fed with liquified gas and supplies a burner nozzle with expanded gas.

Abstract: A pyrophoric gas lighter comprises a head that slips over the hollow valve stem of a replaceable can of inflammable fluid under pressure. The valve stem is of the type that slides axially to open and close the valve. The head carries a burner that communicates with the valve stem, and a striking wheel that strikes against a flint to ignite gas issuing from the burner. Pressure on the head in the direction of the container simultaneously strikes a spark and opens the valve by depressing the valve stem that carries the lighter head. In one embodiment, the pressure of the thumb on the wheel moves the head; while in another embodiment, the pressure on the head rotates the wheel through a ratchet mechanism.