Flame Holder And Fuel Tank Assembly Patents (Class 431/344)
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Patent number: 7056113Abstract: A gas light assembly including a stand member having a recessed portion sized to receive a fuel container. The recessed portion is accessible through an opening of the stand member. A panel member is coupled to the stand member and movable between a closed position covering the recessed portion and an open position wherein the recessed portion is accessible for inserting or removing the fuel container.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2004Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Fire Stone Home Products, LLCInventors: Thomas J. Bachinski, Robb Edward Bennett, Douglas Mark Holm
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Patent number: 7040889Abstract: A burner with a stable mechanism stretching out from a proper location on the circumference, a stable slot is between two shaft slices with a connecting part, the piezo-electric device is a modulized body a piezo-electric module is inside the modulized body, one end of the piezo-electric module stretches out from the shell and is against the shaft, the other end connects to a press button, a conducting rod connects out from the piezo-electric module, and is apart from the burner cap, a combining object is on the location corresponding to the shaft slices; the modulized body can be combined with or detached from the stable slot by the combination or detachment of the combining object and the shaft slices. Users can press the press button and trigger the sparks between the conducting rod of the piezo-electric module and the burner cap to ignite fuel.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
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Patent number: 7033166Abstract: The present invention is to provide a valve with a safety mechanism for diverting reverse gas flow being mountable in a gas lighter wherein a shoulder is formed around a mouth proximate a forward opening of a sleeve and is spaced apart from the forward opening by a predetermined gap when an actuation member is not pressed, the actuation member is pressed to lift a leakproof nut at a bottom of the mouth for opening a bottom hole of a seat to permit gas to flow into the valve, the shoulder then contacts the forward opening for blocking gas flow and direct the gas flow to a nozzle through a hose for ignition. Thus, after the actuation member being released, the gas remaining in the hose will flow back and leak through the gap and the forward opening to the outside because the gas pressure in the hose is larger than the outside pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Inventor: Huang-Hsi Hsu
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Patent number: 7011515Abstract: The present invention is to provide a gas lighter, which comprises a nozzle provided at one end of a barrel extended forwardly from a housing, an auxiliary ceramic sleeve member provided at one end of a ceramic sleeve member in the barrel adjacent the nozzle, a metal ring provided at one end of the auxiliary ceramic sleeve member distal from the sleeve member, a radial metal filament provided in the metal ring, and a metal block provided in a center of the metal filament, wherein an ignition is adapted to generate flame at the end of the nozzle and burn the metal block to be hot enough to ignite gas fuel, and in a case of flame extinguished suddenly by wind, the metal block is adapted to ignite flame again in a very short period of time. As a result, it is possible of preventing large gas from leaking accidentally.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Inventor: Huang-Hsi Hsu
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Patent number: 6997702Abstract: A lighter includes a body for containing fuel, a tube extending from the body for transmitting the fuel and a nozzle attached to the tube for spraying the fuel. In an idle mode, the tube can be wound around the body. In a working mode, the tube is unwound from the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: February 14, 2006Assignee: Arlo LinInventor: Jan-Nan Chen
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Patent number: 6983550Abstract: A gas hot air gun includes a main body, an ignition device, a switch set and a safety switch. The main body includes a blower, a nozzle, a barrel and a handle. A heating chamber and a mixing chamber are on the inner front of the barrel. A gas can is inside the handle. One end of the nozzle is connected to the gas can. The switch set includes a power switch, with the safety switch closing power of the battery set or gas flow of the gas can under some pre-set conditions. Users press the power switch and have gas spray out from the nozzle into the heating chamber to generate heat. The blower sends hot air in the heating chamber out of the main body. A metal slice regulating the direction of air and a catalyst for avoiding flame extending out of the nozzle area are inside the heating chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Inventor: Arlo Lin
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Patent number: 6959707Abstract: A gas combustion type hair drier 1 includes a gas tank 29, for storing combustion gas, a combustor 11 for combusting combustion gas supplied from the gas tank 29, a blower 17 exchanging heat resulting from the combustor 11, a dry battery 31 serving as a power supply to rotate a motor 19 of the blower 17, an igniter device for igniting the combustion gas, an ejector 7 for allowing outside air to be drawn due to negative pressure created by a flow speed of the combustion gas to be supplied to the combustor 11, and a casing 3 that receives the combustor 11, the blower 17 and the ejector 7, with the combustor 11 having a plurality of combustion chambers 85 comprised of non-circular outer peripheral walls around a periphery of a gas combustor section 73.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2001Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Re-Tec Inc.Inventor: Akinobu Fujiwara
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Patent number: 6945771Abstract: A lighter incorporates with a fuel supply arrangement which includes a replaceable fuel cartridge detachably received in a receiving cavity of a casing for storing a liquefied fuel, and a gas releasable valve extended from the replaceable fuel cartridge for controlling a flow of gas from the replaceable fuel cartridge. Therefore, a user is able to refill the fuel by simply replacing a used replaceable fuel cartridge with a new replaceable fuel cartridge which is fully pre-filled with fuel.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Inventor: Yiling Xie
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Patent number: 6929466Abstract: An apparatus for the lighting of a candle that is elevated above a user includes a main body that has a trigger for releasing a quantity of butane from the main body. A plurality of sections of conduit cooperate with each other sufficient to telescope or extend from a retracted position into an extended position that is longer than the retracted position. When the trigger is depressed, butane is released from the main body and flows through all of the sections of conduit where it is eventually discharged into the ambient air. The butane is ignited, either by an on-board device or by a match, at a combined distal end of all of the sections of conduit. The sections of conduit provide a variable extensible effective length to the lighter that is adapted for igniting candles that are elevated above a user at varying distances. A candle snuffer is optionally included.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Inventor: Elvira Reese
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Patent number: 6929468Abstract: A valve is provided for a blowtorch. The valve includes a housing, a switching device and an adjusting device. The housing is connected between a reservoir and a nozzle of the blowtorch. The switching device is provided for switching the valve between a communicating mode and a blocking mode. The adjusting device is provided for adjusting the flow rate of the gas through the valve.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2003Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Inventor: Terry Wang
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Patent number: 6923645Abstract: A gas-mixing device includes a store tank, a mixing chamber provided in the store tank, an air intake tube provided in the mixing chamber and having an intake, and an outlet tube connected with the mixing chamber. Properly pressured air is pumped through the air intake tube in the store tank to add pressure and vaporize liquid fuel oil in the store tank. Vaporized fuel oil is sent to a nozzle through the fuel oil outlet tube. An air outlet valve is provided in the store tank for pressured air therein to flow through into the nozzle, wherein vaporized fuel oil is mixed with pressured air and further intensely vaporized to produce further vaporizing and pressure-adding function for use in a burning appliance and installation.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2004Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Inventors: Teng-Mao Chiu, Chin-Hsiang Lin
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Patent number: 6905329Abstract: A torch lighter includes a fuel nozzle assembly provided for vaporizing the fuel released therefrom to a high-pressured gaseous fuel to emit to the ignition chamber, wherein the vaporizer assembly includes a torch head, which is provided at an emitting end of a nozzle body and supported within a combustion housing, having a root chamber having a size larger than the size of the emitting end of the nozzle body to form a gas stabilizing reservoir to ensure a collective and stable flow of the mixture gas, and two or more elongated nozzle ducts each having an ignition end and a root end extended to a ceiling of the root chamber, wherein a mixture gas ejected from the two ignition ends is ignited in the ignition chamber to form two torches soaring away from the two ignition ends of the two nozzle ducts.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Inventor: Chi Lam Wong
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Patent number: 6902392Abstract: A lighter comprising an outer case having a first sidewall disposed in spaced apart relation to a second sidewall, a first end wall disposed in spaced apart relation to a second end wall, and a base connected to the side walls and end walls. A lid having lid end walls and lid side walls connected to a cover. A curved hinge connecting the outer case and lid. An inside unit is provided and is receivable in the outer case. The inside unit has a plate and front and rear lugs. A cam is mounted to the rear lugs and slides over the curved hinge. The cam has a cam contact surface that has curved portions used for sliding over the curved hinge to thus reduce interference when the lid is opened and closed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Zippo Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Michael Wayne Johnson
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Patent number: 6887072Abstract: Igniter with safety unit, the safety unit comprises a push-button that is arranged at the backside of the gun body and partially protrudes out of the gun body, it can be pushed forward and return relative to the gun body; a elastic limit bar that is arranged at the side of the part of the ignition trigger that is towards the backside of the gun body, in natural condition, its end keeps against a barrier block which is integrated with the inner wall of the gun body; a button that is arranged in the push-button and protrudes out of the push-button, it can be pressed into the gun body and return. A protruding part arranged on the button's inner side protrudes towards a mid-portion of the gun body. In natural condition, the protruding part is towards the blank part, but when the push-button is in pushed up condition, the protruding part is near the end of the elastic limit bar and opposite to it.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Inventor: Zhang Judeng
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Patent number: 6884063Abstract: A multiple-flame lighter, including: a lighter housing, a storage having an outlet valve, an inlet valve and a gas chamber for storing liquid fuel gas, a gas outlet control bar for controlling gas supply from said storage, and a windproof assembly connected to the gas pass of the storage, characterized in that it also includes: an electronic igniter, a flint igniter, an ignition controller, wherein between the sleeve and the windproof assembly there is provided with a flint igniter which is adjacent to the sleeve and a flame outlet which is connected to the gas pass of the storage. The single one lighter is simple in structure and may achieve powerful windproof effect and has advantages of long time service life, luminous application and less heat generation.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2003Date of Patent: April 26, 2005Inventor: Chi Lam Wong
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Patent number: 6863527Abstract: A heater includes a handle, a combustion chamber, a valve and a thermal controller. A reservoir for fuel can be installed in the handle. The combustion chamber is mounted on the handle. The valve is received in the handle. The valve defines a passage through which fuel can flow from the reservoir into the combustion chamber for combustion. The thermal controller includes a memory element at least partially received in the combustion chamber and a rod connected between the memory element and the valve for controlling a rate at which fuel can flow through the passage defined in the valve based on the temperature in the combustion chamber. The memory element is a helical memory metal element. The memory element shrinks or expands when the temperature increases above a certain value.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Inventor: Arlo H. T. Lin
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Patent number: 6843244Abstract: A portable heater comprises a housing, a heating element, and a fuel supply. The fuel supply is preferably a liquid gas type wherein a valve assembly meters the gas to the heating element. A regulator is used to regulate flow of gas from the fuel source, and a connector assembly rotatably interconnects the regulator to the valve assembly. This rotatable connection allows the fuel source, typically in the form of a gas bottle, to be rotated away from the housing for easier removal and replacement of the gas bottle. Rotation of the regulator can be supported by use of a bracket which is attached to the regulator.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2002Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Vermont Castings Majestic Products CompanyInventors: Steve McCalley, Sung Geun Lee, Sung Boo Yoon
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Patent number: 6827572Abstract: A torch lighter includes a fuel nozzle assembly provided for vaporizing the fuel released therefrom to a high-pressured gaseous fuel to emit to the ignition chamber, wherein the vaporizer assembly includes a torch head, which is provided at an emitting end of a nozzle body and supported within a combustion housing, having a root chamber having a size larger than the size of the emitting end of the nozzle body to form a gas stabilizing reservoir to ensure a collective and stable flow of the mixture gas, and two or more elongated nozzle ducts each having an ignition end and a root end extended to a ceiling of the root chamber, wherein a mixture gas ejected from the two ignition ends is ignited in the ignition chamber to form two torches soaring away from the two ignition ends of the two nozzle ducts.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Inventor: Chi Lam Wong
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Patent number: 6827573Abstract: A micro gas burner is provided that generates a stable, pre-mixed flame that produces little to no soot or unburned hydrocarbons. The gas burner includes a fuel inlet, nozzle, oxygenation chamber with at least one air inlet, a mixing chamber having a frustoconical inner wall, at least one permeable barrier and a flame holder. The gas burner thoroughly mixes fuel and entrained air to form a nearly stoichiometric mixture prior to combustion. The gas burner mixes the fuel and air so thoroughly that it requires a lower fuel flow rate than would otherwise be necessary to produce a stable, pre-mixed flame. The gas burner may include an optional flame tube in which a flame is contained and sequestered from diffusing air.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco CorporationInventors: Frank Kelley St. Charles, Kayyani C. Adiga
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Publication number: 20040224272Abstract: The present invention provides an adapter for interfacing between a reusable gas refill container and a refillable lighter, an apparatus for engaging a reusable gas refill container and an apparatus for engaging a refillable lighter. The adapter includes a body and an aperture defined by the body, wherein the aperture is sized to receive an ejection port of a gas refill container. The body also includes a threaded portion that mates with a threaded portion of the refillable lighter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2003Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventor: Tom Rakowski
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Publication number: 20040219467Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighter including a housing having a handle at one end and a nozzle at another end and including a fuel supply connected for selective fluid communication with the nozzle. A release member is cooperatively connected to the housing to initiate the flow of fuel from the fuel supply to the nozzle. An ignitor, such as a piezoelectric mechanism, is provided for generating a spark proximate the nozzle. A trigger spaced from the release member is operatively connected to the housing for actuating the ignitor for the generation of a spark igniting the fuel present at the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2004Publication date: November 4, 2004Applicant: BIC CorporationInventors: Guy Laforest, Paul Adams, Brian Tubby, Richard M. Orazietti, Floyd B. Fairbanks
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Publication number: 20040202978Abstract: A lighter nozzle system includes a diffusion body having a receiving opening adapted for communicating with a liquefied fuel storage of a lighter, an emitting opening, at least an air inlet provided thereon, wherein the air inlet is positioned adjacent to the receiving opening to define an elongated mixing chamber axially extended between the air inlet to the emitting opening, wherein a flow of air is capable of inletting into the mixing chamber through the air inlet to mix with a fuel releasing through the receiving opening to form a mixture gas at the emitting opening of the diffusion body. A nozzle assembly includes a nozzle head provided at the emitting opening of the diffusion body and a torch diversion arrangement provided at the nozzle head for radially diverging the mixture gas to produce a stylish torch when the mixture gas is ejected and ignited at the nozzle head.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventor: Ming King Wong
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Patent number: 6792937Abstract: A miniature patio heater is provided which has a total height of approximately 3 ft. and which has a shroud with a diameter less than 2 ft. The patio heater includes a base having a vertically extending chamber, which is approximately 1.5 ft. high, for receiving a small gas bottle. A hollow post extends upwardly from the upper end of the chamber. A heater assembly and shroud are supported at the upper end of the post. A gas line extends along the inside of the hollow post between the heater assembly and the chamber. A connector assembly provides a pivotal connection between the end of the gas line and a regulator connected to a gas bottle within the chamber. The chamber is provided with an access opening for inserting and removing the gas bottle. Thus, the gas bottle, with attached regulator, can be swung from a vertical upright position within the chamber outwardly through the access opening to an angular position to facilitate removal of an empty gas bottle and replacement with a full gas bottle.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: CFM-RMC International, a division of the Vermont Castings Majestic Products CompanyInventors: Michael Resmo, Sung Boo Yoon
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Publication number: 20040180306Abstract: A burner with a stable mechanism stretching out from a proper location on the circumference, a stable slot is between two shaft slices with a connecting part, the piezo-electric device is a modulized body a piezo-electric module is inside the modulized body, one end of the piezo-electric module stretches out from the shell and is against the shaft, the other end connects to a press button, a conducting rod connects out from the piezo-electric module, and is apart from the burner cap, a combining object is on the location corresponding to the shaft slices; the modulized body can be combined with or detached from the stable slot by the combination or detachment of the combining object and the shaft slices. Users can press the press button and trigger the sparks between the conducting rod of the piezo-electric module and the burner cap to ignite fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
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Publication number: 20040168684Abstract: A portable food warmer especially suited for warming baby bottles, soups, saki, and the like is provided. A first receptacle is provided for receiving fuel, preferably a fuel cartridge of butane or other hydrocarbon fuel. A second receptacle is provided to receive a container of food, and a fuel pathway lies between the first and second receptacles; one end is in communication with the first receptacle, and the other end is in thermal communication with the second receptacle (e.g., immediately below it). A timer is coupled to the fuel pathway which selectively allows the flow of fuel along the fuel pathway from the first receptacle to the second receptacle for a predetermined period of time, where it is burned to heat the food. The warmer may utilize an electric heating element instead of fuel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2002Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Stephen Shapiro, Wen Der Wang
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Publication number: 20040166454Abstract: A portable gas torch has a metal burner tube defining a gas flow passage through which gas is adapted to flow. An igniter wire in the gas flow passage generates a spark to ignite gas flowing through the passage. The torch has a wire holder for positioning the igniter wire in the gas flow passage and a flame holder downstream from the wire holder. The wire holder comprises a central hub having an axial bore and at least one spacer on the hub for contacting an inside wall of the burner tube to position the hub at a predetermined radial location in the gas flow passage. The axial bore is sized to enable the wire to be held at a selected location downstream from the hub. The wire holder comprises a dielectric material to allow a spark to jump to the inside wall of the burner tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2003Publication date: August 26, 2004Applicant: Victor Equipment CompanyInventor: Roger D. Zwicker
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Publication number: 20040152029Abstract: A gas cigarette lighter including a fuel reservoir made of an amorphous polymer material and having a top wall through which a well passes, the well being provided with a gas dispensing device which includes a tubular element engaged in the well in leaktight manner. The top wall of the reservoir is provided with an annular groove extending around the well, the tubular element of the dispensing device is engaged in the well, and the top wall is reinforced by a ring engaged in the annular groove, the top wall forming an annular wall between the groove and the well, which wall is clamped between the ring and the tubular element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Michel Doucet, Rene Frigiere
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Publication number: 20040152030Abstract: A gas cigarette lighter comprising: a fuel reservoir preferably manufactured from a rigid amorphous polymer material, a top wall through which a well passes, a threaded ring screwed into a tapped portion of the well, and a gas dispensing device including at least one tubular element fitted into the threaded ring. The tubular element has a bottom portion that extends at least to the bottom end of the well and receives a microporous membrane which provides a gas flow rate that is substantially constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: August 5, 2004Inventors: Michel Doucet, Rene Frigiere
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Patent number: 6746234Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighter including a housing having a handle at one end and a nozzle at another end and including a fuel supply connected for selective fluid communication with the nozzle. A release member is cooperatively connected to the housing to initiate the flow of fuel from the fuel supply to the nozzle. An ignitor, such as a piezoelectric mechanism, is provided for generating a spark proximate the nozzle. A trigger spaced from the release member is operatively connected to the housing for actuating the ignitor for the generation of a spark igniting the fuel present at the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: BIC CorporationInventors: Guy Laforest, Paul Adams, Brian Tubby, Richard M. Orazietti, Floyd B. Fairbanks
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Patent number: 6742814Abstract: A miniature patio heater is provided which has a total height of approximately 3 ft. and which has a shroud with a diameter less than 2 ft. The patio heater includes a base having a vertically extending chamber, which is approximately 1.5 ft. high, for receiving a small gas bottle. A hollow post extends upwardly from the upper end of the chamber. A heater assembly and shroud are supported at the upper end of the post. A gas line extends along the inside of the hollow post between the heater assembly and the chamber. A connector assembly provides a pivotal connection between the end of the gas line and a regulator connected to a gas bottle within the chamber. The chamber is provided with an access opening for inserting and removing the gas bottle. Thus, the gas bottle, with attached regulator, can be swung from a vertical upright position within the chamber outwardly through the access opening to an angular position to facilitate removal of an empty gas bottle and replacement with a fall gas bottle.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: CFM-RMC International, a division of the Vermont Castings Majestic Products CompanyInventors: Michael Resmo, Sung Boo Yoon
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Patent number: 6733282Abstract: A fuel delivery system and burner for a torch. Fuel passes from a regulator into a tube that extends through the path of a flame that is produced by the burner. The tube preferably is shaped into a coil around the area of the flame so that the coil is heated by the flame. The heated coil assures that liquid fuel in the coil is vaporized as it passes through the coil. In addition, the coil may act as a flame spreader. A burner tube includes an internal passage and an outer passage. Fuel vapor flows through each of these passages, and escapes the burner tube at a distal end. The outer flow of gas is slow, and does not aspirate air, causing the flame to remain attached to the burner and to burn yellow. The inner flow of gas adds velocity, helping the burner flame to be wind resistant.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: The Coleman Company, Inc.Inventor: Norris Richard Long
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Publication number: 20040072113Abstract: A multi-flame type lighter, comprising a housing, an ignition mechanism mounted in the housing, a supply mechanism mounted in the housing, and a flame outlet seat mounted in the housing. Thus, the supply mechanism only needs to provide a single gas supply pipe to be connected to the flame outlet seat, so as achieve the purpose of a multi-flame source, thereby simplifying the parts and construction of the multi-flame type lighter, thereby decreasing the cost of production and fabrication, and thereby facilitating maintenance of the parts. In addition, the multi-flame type lighter only needs to provide a single gas supply pipe and a single flame outlet seat, so that the volume of the multi-flame type lighter may be greatly reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2002Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventor: Chin-Chung Chuan
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Publication number: 20040072114Abstract: Gas lighter comprising a reservoir, for containing a fuel, the reservoir having an upper wall through which a well and a gas-dispensing device passes. The gas-dispensing device includes at least one tubular element arranged in the well. The tubular element including at least one snap-fitting member designed to cooperate with a retaining element secured to the upper wall of the reservoir in the well when the tubular element is assembled with the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventors: Michel Doucet, Rene Frigiere
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Publication number: 20040053179Abstract: A gas lighting rod comprises a gas release valve (41) and a piezo-electric igniting system (14) both operated by a spring-loaded operating member (10), and a spring-loaded safety member (25) which has to be operated to release the operating member. The operating member (10) is aligned transversely and the safety member (25) comprises a pivoted lever having a lock/release arm (26) extending generally along the axis of the operating member (10) and interacting therewith and a control arm (27) engaged on the other side of the pivot (28, 55) and from the opposite side of the lighting rod from the operating member (10). The lock-release arm (26) is substantially enclosed within the operating member, and its end is sloped such that its engagement with the operating member (10) tends to urge it into the locked position if the user attempts to operate the operating member without first fully operating the safety member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: SWEDISH MATCH LIGHTERS B.V.Inventor: Thierry Rogelet
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Patent number: 6705856Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighter for generating a flame of controlled color, the lighter being of the type comprising a tank (20) adapted to receive a fuel (30) associated with flame coloring agents, expander means (40) suitable for expanding the fuel (30), means (50) suitable for conveying the fuel (30) to the expander means (40), and means (60) suitable for igniting the fuel (30) downstream from the expander means (40), the lighter being characterized by the fact that the expander means (40) are formed by an element that is hydrophobic, organophobic, and inorganophobic.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Rivonia Trading LDAInventors: Daniel Toueix, Jean-Pierre Rives
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Publication number: 20040048215Abstract: A torch lighter includes a fuel nozzle assembly provided for vaporizing the fuel released therefrom to a high-pressured gaseous fuel to emit to the ignition chamber, wherein the vaporizer assembly includes a torch head, which is provided at an emitting end of a nozzle body and supported within a combustion housing, having a root chamber having a size larger than the size of the emitting end of the nozzle body to form a gas stabilizing reservoir to ensure a collective and stable flow of the mixture gas, and two or more elongated nozzle ducts each having an ignition end and a root end extended to a ceiling of the root chamber, wherein a mixture gas ejected from the two ignition ends is ignited in the ignition chamber to form two torches soaring away from the two ignition ends of the two nozzle ducts.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventor: Chi Lam Wong
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Patent number: 6699033Abstract: A piezoelectric lighter includes a gas emission arrangement including a pair of jet nozzles and a gas emitting tube communicating with a liquefied gas storage respectively, a gas releasable valve extended from the liquefied gas storage for controlling a flow of gas to the gas emission arrangement, a pair of gas ejecting conduits connected from the gas releasable valve to the two jet nozzles respectively, and a gas ejecting duct connected from the gas releasable valve to the gas emitting tube. Therefore, the piezoelectric lighter is adapted for selectively producing either a pair of jet flames at the same time when the gas discharged to the two jet nozzles through the gas ejecting conduits or producing a visible flame when the gas discharged to the gas emitting tube through the gas ejecting duct.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2002Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Inventor: Wen Xu
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Publication number: 20040029060Abstract: A hot melt glue gun comprising a main housing (5) having a glue stick accommodating bore (8) extending therethrough and terminating in a dispensing nozzle (9) through which melted glue is dispensed. A catalytic combustion element (16) is located in a combustion chamber (15) for raising the temperature of the main housing (5) to an appropriate temperature for melting the glue stick. Fuel gas is supplied to the catalytic combustion element (16) through a fuel gas valve (20) having a spindle (40) extending therefrom. A piezo electric ignition unit (27) generates an EMF for generating a spark across a pair of electrodes (25) in the combustion chamber (15) for igniting the fuel gas to initially burn with flame combustion to raise the temperature of the catalytic element (16) to its ignition temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Alfred Peter Oglesby, John Paul Oglesby, John Joseph Storey
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Patent number: 6688878Abstract: A gas lighting rod comprises a gas release valve and a piezoelectric igniting system, both operated by a spring-loaded operating member, and a spring-loaded safety member which has to be operated to release the operating member. The operating member is aligned transversely and the safety member includes a pivoted lever having a lock/release arm extending generally along an axis of the operating member and interacting therewith, and a control arm engaged on an other side of a pivot and from an opposite side of the lighting rod from the operating member. The lock/release arm is substantially enclosed within the operating member, and its end is sloped such that its engagement with the operating member tends to urge the end into a locked position if a user attempts to operate the operating member without first fully operating the safety member.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Swedish Match Lighters B.V.Inventor: Thierry Rogelet
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Publication number: 20040023178Abstract: A lighter includes a housing having a supply of fuel, an actuating member movably associated with the housing to selectively perform at least one ignition function, and a latch assembly associated with the housing for selectively changing the actuating member from a high-force mode to a low-force mode. The latch assembly preferably must be moved in at least two different directions to change the actuating member from the high-force mode to the low-force mode. The latch assembly may include a latch actuator movable mounted to a latch member. Various other features which improve the functioning of the lighter may be provided separately or in combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Anthony Sgroi, Paul Adams
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Publication number: 20040013991Abstract: A flashback precluding torch is attachable to an aerosol propane canister containing propane gas under pressure and has a fixture receiving fitting. The flashback precluding torch comprises an elongate hollow main body member having an anchored end and a free end, a gas flow inlet disposed at the anchored end, a gas flow outlet disposed at the free end, and a gas flow passage connecting in fluid communication the inlet and the outlet. An attachment mechanism is provided for removably attaching the anchored end of the elongate hollow main body member to the fixture receiving means of the aerosol propane canister. A manually operable main valve is operatively mounted on the elongate hollow main body member. A flame directing nozzle is operatively mounted on the main body member at the free end. A safety flow valve is operatively mounted on the elongate hollow main body member, so as to control the flow of propane through the elongate hollow main body member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2002Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventor: Antonio Miceli
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Patent number: 6663838Abstract: A heated volatile dispenser and a volatile carrier for use therewith are disclosed. The volatile dispenser has a closed heating chamber having ceiling and exit vents. A fuel burner is contained within the heating chamber, and a carrier holder is positioned over the fuel burner. The carrier holder holds a volatile carrier in a location above the fuel burner such that hot gases from the fuel burner pass the carrier holder and directly heat a volatile carrier held thereby. The volatile carrier may be held in an edge-on orientation with respect to the flow of hot gases, or transversely with respect to them. The volatile carrier has an inward end that has a cross-sectional profile made to be complementary to that of an insert slot through which the volatile carrier must be inserted for use. An alternative embodiment is shown that uses a candle as a fuel burner.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2000Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.Inventors: Douglas A. Soller, Michael C. Fryan, Stephen B. Leonard, Scott W. Demarest, Steven B. Mineau, Paul E. Furner, Donald J. Shanklin, Therese M. Nelson
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Patent number: 6648632Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Assignee: Ronson International LimitedInventors: Adrian Berry, Tat Chan
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Patent number: 6648630Abstract: A gas igniter comprises a casing detachably connected to a container which holds an inserted commercial available disposable gas lighter as fuel source, wherein. providing an easy and inexpensive means of gas refilling, whereby, a user can refill with a commercially available disposable lighter without discarding all the usable parts. A flexible extension that can be freely curved at any angle and retained to the given shape to perform ignition even in a tight spot area A p ay safety switch and a secondary safety switch of the igniter provide extra security to inhibit the children to master an ignition.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2002Date of Patent: November 18, 2003Inventor: Robert W. Tse
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Publication number: 20030211049Abstract: A combination device for reduction of smoking related halitosis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventor: Ofer Gerassi
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Publication number: 20030211435Abstract: A fuel delivery system and burner for a torch. Fuel passes from a regulator into a tube that extends through the path of a flame that is produced by the burner. The tube preferably is shaped into a coil around the area of the flame so that the coil is heated by the flame. The heated coil assures that liquid fuel in the coil is vaporized as it passes through the coil. In addition, the coil may act as a flame spreader. A burner tube includes an internal passage and an outer passage. Fuel vapor flows through each of these passages, and escapes the burner tube at a distal end. The outer flow of gas is slow, and does not aspirate air, causing the flame to remain attached to the burner and to burn yellow. The inner flow of gas adds velocity, helping the burner flame to be wind resistant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2002Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventor: Norris Richard Long
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Publication number: 20030207222Abstract: A lighter is provided. The lighter includes two spaced apart nozzles. Upon manual actuation of the lighter, each nozzle produces a separate flame, and the flames intersect to produce a single flame in region spaced apart from the body of the lighter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2002Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventor: Andrew D. Smith
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Publication number: 20030207223Abstract: A barbecue lighter incorporates with a safety arrangement which includes an actuating member including a pusher arm disposed in a trigger cavity of the barbecue lighter in a movable manner, and a resilient element disposed between the pusher arm and an ignition trigger for applying an urging pressure against the pusher arm so as to normally retain the pusher arm in a safety position. In the safety position, the pusher arm is positioned away from a depressible end of a gas lever with a predetermined distance. To ignite the barbecue lighter, the pusher arm is required to move to a position that when the ignition trigger is depressed downwardly, the pusher arm is driven downwardly to depress the depressible end of the gas lever for releasing gas, so as to ignite the barbecue lighter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2002Publication date: November 6, 2003Inventor: Kin Chung Li
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Publication number: 20030203331Abstract: A safety mechanism for a torch includes an activating button movably received in the housing for engaging with one end of the lever to activate gas flow from the gas tank. The activating button has a partially truncated portion and two legs extending out in parallel. Each leg has a first step and a second step. A safety plate is selectively abutted against the partially truncated portion of the activating button and having an extension selectively corresponding to the first and the second steps so that movement of the activating button is controlled by the safety plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2002Publication date: October 30, 2003Inventor: Chin-Mei Hsu
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Patent number: 6632082Abstract: A lighter is provided. The lighter includes two spaced apart nozzles. Upon manual actuation of the lighter, each nozzle produces a separate flame, and the flames intersect to produce a single flame in region spaced apart from the body of the lighter.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2002Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Colibri CorporationInventor: Andrew D. Smith