Flame Holder Having Attached Handle Patents (Class 431/345)
  • Patent number: 6491515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighter which a user actuates by at least two different modes of operation. In the first mode, a biasing member is positioned to oppose movement of an actuating assembly so that a user releases fuel and ignites the lighter only if a high-actuation-force is applied to the actuator. In this first mode, the lighter resists operation by unintended users by requiring a user to have a predetermined level of strength to actuate the lighter. In the second mode, the biasing member is moved to a different position which does not oppose movement of the actuating assembly to the same extent as the first mode so that a user may release fuel and ignite the lighter if a low-actuation-force is applied to the actuator. Moving the biasing element from the first position to the second position preferably requires the user to have a predetermined level of cognitive abilities and/or physical characteristics in order to resist use by unintended users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: BIC Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Tubby, Paul Adams, Floyd Fairbanks
  • Patent number: 6488492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighter which a user actuates by at least two different modes of operation. In the first mode, a plunger member is positioned to allow a biasing member to oppose movement of an actuating assembly so that a user releases fuel and ignites the lighter only if a high-actuation-force is applied to the actuator. In this first mode, the lighter resists operation by unintended users by requiring a user to have a predetermined level of strength to actuate the lighter. In the second mode, the plunger member is moved to a different position so that the biasing member does not oppose movement of the actuating assembly to the same extent as the first mode so that a user may release fuel and ignite the lighter if a low-actuation-force is applied to the actuator. Moving the plunger member from the first position to the second position preferably requires the user to have a predetermined level of cognitive abilities and/or physical characteristics in order to resist use by unintended users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Bic Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Adams, Floyd Fairbanks, Anthony Sgroi, Jr., Brian Tubby
  • Publication number: 20020177091
    Abstract: A utility lighter includes a locking stopper fitted in a locker groove of a button body of an ignition button in an inwardly movable manner and a resilient element mounted between the locking stopper and the ignition button to normally urge and retain the locking stopper positioning between a pusher head of the ignition button and a locking flange of a piezoelectric unit housing of the utility lighter, so as to block an downwardly movement of the ignition button and prevent the ignition operation of the piezoelectric unit. In order to ignite the utility lighter, an adult user's thumb must intentionally push the locking stopper inwardly until the locking stopper is unblocked by the locking flange and then push down the ignition button at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventor: Peter Chen
  • Publication number: 20020150852
    Abstract: 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 the abdomen 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: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventor: Judeng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20020115034
    Abstract: A soldering device includes a container having a chamber for receiving a mixture of a liquid fuel and a gas and having a mouth for filing the mixture into the chamber of the container, a soldering gun device coupled to the mouth for receiving the mixture, and a pump for pumping air into the chamber of the container. A head has three passageways coupled to three tubes, A housing has an end outlets a duct is slidably received in the housing and has a middle cap and a port formed in one end. A filter drum is engaged between the duct and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventor: Chao Yang Liu
  • Publication number: 20020115032
    Abstract: A safety catch apparatus for a gas burner comprises a fixing part, a stir part and a catch part. The fixing part is two opposite sealing cover halves joining to each other. The fixing part has a circumferential edge with a central passage clearance at the periphery thereof and provides a projection post and at least a guide piece at the front and the rear surface thereof respectively. The stir part is held and located by way of the sealing cover halves and has a stir ring corresponding to the circumferential edge. An inner sector wing is perpendicular to the stir ring and is received in the passage clearance with an elastic expander disposed between the sector wing and an inner wall of the fixing part. The catch part has two opposite fitting holes at the middle portion thereof for fitting with the projection posts such that another elastic expander can be disposed between one of the fitting holes and an outer wall of the fixing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 6428309
    Abstract: A utility lighter (10), which utilizes the fuel, the actuation mechanism (22, 24, 26, 28, 30) and/or the child-resistant mechanism of a pocket lighter (16), is disclosed. The utility lighter is sized and dimensioned to receive the pocket lighter. The utility lighter also defines a cut-out portion (44, 46) on its housing to expose the actuation mechanism and/or the child-resistant mechanism therethrough for user manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: BIC Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald J. Doiron
  • Publication number: 20020094500
    Abstract: A gas igniter comprises a casing detachably connected to a container, which holds an inserted commercially 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 primary safety switch and a secondary safety switch of the igniter provide extra security to inhibit the children to master an ignition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventor: Robert W. Tse
  • Publication number: 20020094499
    Abstract: A lighter includes an igniting device received in a housing, a casing engaged with the igniting device, and a button engaged on the casing and having a catch for engaging into a lock opening of the housing. The button is guided to move up and down relative to the casing and moves toward and away from the igniting device together with the casing. A spring may bias the catch to engage into the lock opening of the housing and to lock the button to the housing. The igniting device may be actuated by the button when the catch is disengaged from the lock opening of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventor: Ying Fang Huang
  • Patent number: 6406291
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a utility lighter platform which includes a lighting mechanism configured to selectively ignite fuel supplied from a fuel supply container, and a frame configured to operatively house the lighting mechanism and configured to receive an outer shell thereon. The frame includes a fuel supply container housing structure configured to hold a fuel supply container at a first end of the frame and an insulating cap holding structure configured to receive an insulating cap at a second end of the frame and configured to house a nozzle operatively connected to the fuel supply. The frame also includes an ignitor assembly holding structure configured to house an ignitor assembly, and a trigger holding structure configured to operatively hold a trigger stem with which to activate the ignitor assembly and to release fuel from the fuel supply in order to ignite fuel received at the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: BIC Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Ferrara, Brian Tubby, Paul Adams
  • Publication number: 20020072022
    Abstract: A safety gas burner includes a shell, the shell having a front extension tube, a metal flame tube mounted in the front extension tube, a butane well, a gas valve adapted to control output of fuel gas from the butane well, a gas lever pivoted to the gas valve and adapted to open the gas valve for output of fuel gas from the butane well; an igniter mounted in the shell, the igniter having a first terminal connected to the flame tube by a conductor an a second terminal connected to a spark discharging electrode suspended in same flame tube; an ignition switch button mounted in a through hole of the shell and stopped against the igniter for depressing by hand to trigger the igniter and to drive the gas lever to open the gas valve; a safety button supported on a spring in a locating hole of the shell and adapted to let the gas lever be driven by the ignition switch button when depressed, the safety button having a mushroom-like cap disposed outside the shell; and a spring-supported stop member mounted in a sliding
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Inventor: Huang-Hsi Hsu
  • Patent number: 6398545
    Abstract: A self-extinguishing torch for use in theatrical environments includes a supporting basket having a support for torch fuel. The supporting basket includes a screen providing side ventilation for containing torch fuel on the support and admitting air through the side ventilation to burn torch fuel. The supporting basket has fuel, which provides torch lighting. A container having an opening for receiving, surrounding, and containing the supporting basket has a handhold remote from the container for permitting the container to be held by a hand. A normally closed top is provided for moving from an open position to a closed position over the container with the supporting basket therein. The normally closed top is biased to the open position when the supporting basket protrudes from the container at the normally closed top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: GamProducts, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Adam Kleeman, Joseph N. Tawil
  • Publication number: 20020064744
    Abstract: A gas igniter comprises a casing detachably connected to a container, which holds a inserted disposable gas lighter cartridge as a gas reservoir. 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 and the flexible extension can be snap back in the casing for easy storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Robert W. Tse
  • Publication number: 20020031738
    Abstract: A candle maintenance device according to the invention preferably has a body with a handle portion to grip the device. A trigger is used to engage a wick cutting element and lighting element. The wick cutting element preferably includes a cutting actuator mechanism, cutting guide and cutting device. The lighting element preferably includes a fuel cell for housing a fuel, fuel lines and an igniter source. A candlewick placed in the wick cutting element will be drawn into or forced against a cutting device such as a cutting blade. Contemporaneously with the cutting of the wick, the lighting element will release fuel from the fuel cell and ignite the fuel via the igniter source. The fuel is discharged through piping to a location in close proximity to the cutting device. An igniter source causes a spark to ignite the fuel thereby igniting the wick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventor: John B. Ricci
  • Patent number: 6332773
    Abstract: A handle (1) for gas burners, wherein a plug insert is locked in an axial direction by means of a lock (10) and rotation of the plug insert is fixed at a particular position. When the lock (10) is activated, the rotational locking can be released so as to modify the rotational position of the plug insert, without having to remove the plug insert from the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: J. Lorch Gesellschaft & Co. GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Peter Kuhn
  • Patent number: 6293785
    Abstract: A gas torch that includes a connector end that has a first end, which has been adapted for receiving fuel and a second end. The second end of the connector end includes a pivoting connector that provides fluid communication through the connector end. The connector end attaches to a tip connector that includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the tip connector being adapted for receiving the neck portion, and the second end of the tip connector being adapted for receiving a torch nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Inventor: William J. McGovern
  • Patent number: 6257876
    Abstract: A disposable lighter holder includes a holder frame providing a sliding chamber therein, a lighter holder for holding a disposable lighter in position slidably disposed in the sliding chamber, a resilient element connected between the holder frame and the lighter holder to normally urge and retain the lighter holder in a lower position, and an ignition member being arranged in such a manner that when a pushing force is applied by an adult's thumb on the pusher member in order to drive the lighter holder sliding frontwardly along the sliding chamber, simultaneously, a gas lever of the disposable lighter is depressed by the ignition member for releasing gas and a striker wheel of the disposable lighter is struck by the ignition member to rotate for generating striking sparks to ignite the releasing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Hui Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 6257875
    Abstract: The invention relates to an LPG combusting burner device for flaming and flame cultivation purposes and an improved hand-held torch that may incorporate such burner device. The burner device includes a primary burner (14) having at least one fuel delivery nozzle or jet (80) arranged within an open combustion chamber (71) defined within a burner skirt (70) such as to direct a stream of fuel towards a flame delivery opening of the skirt (70), and a vaporiser (18) located in heat exchanging proximity to the primary burner (14) and having a pressurization chamber with an inlet for liquid LPG fuel and an outlet for gaseous LPG fuel, the inlet being arranged to be in fluid communication with a source of pressurized LPG and the other being in communication with the nozzle of the primary burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Origin Energy LPG Limited
    Inventors: Ian Johnstone, Robert Smith
  • Patent number: 6227845
    Abstract: A torch holder includes a supporting portion, a receiving portion and a engaging portion. The supporting portion includes an L-shaped upper portion and a lower portion with one end connected to the upper portion and the other end inserted into the ground. The engaging portion is also an L-shape and so positioned that both L-shaped structures are in the same plane to keep the holder from rotating and fixed in the vertical position. The receiving portion is mounted on the upper portion of the supporting portion, which includes a cylindrical holding portion mounted on the supporting portion with a screw or the like for securing the torch in a cylindrical holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas M. Pillow, Richard F. Pillow
  • Patent number: 6227846
    Abstract: A combustor extension for a heat gun where the heat gun has a jet pump for mixing pressurized fuel with air to form an air/fuel mixture and a combustor attachment for combusting the air/fuel mixture. The jet pump has a first electrical connector for providing an electrical charge to an ignition device at the combustor attachment for igniting the air/fuel mixture. The combustor extension includes a hollow conduit having proximal and distal ends for extending between and coupling the combustor attachment to the jet pump. A second electrical connector at the proximal end of the conduit electrically couples to the first electrical connector of the jet pump. A third electrical connector at the distal end of the conduit electrically couples to the ignition device of the combustor attachment. The second and third electrical connectors are electrically connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignees: Shrinkfast Corporation, Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Dimiter S. Zagoroff
  • Patent number: 6213759
    Abstract: A disposable utility lighter for lighting BBQS, fireplaces and the like, having a child resistant device comprised of a reservoir, a spark generator for generating spark at a nozzle tip to ignite the flame by activating a trigger. Four embodiments of a child resistant device are disclosed that prevent use by children comprising buttons or switches that must first be manipulated before the lighter can be operated. In a first embodiment, the trigger release button is mounted beneath a trigger guard immediately adjacent to and above the trigger. The trigger release button allows one finger operation to pull or push upward on the trigger release button, and then nearly simultaneously pull back on the trigger. Release of the trigger re-engages the trigger release button preventing operation. In a second embodiment, a downward pressure on a trigger locking button extending through the top of the housing of the BBQ lighter disengages an abutment from the boss on the trigger allowing operation of the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Calico Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Kil Yong Sung
  • Patent number: 6186773
    Abstract: A safety mechanism of a utility lighter. The safety mechanism includes a cam mechanism and a safety button. The cam mechanism has three projecting members, namely, a fuel-release lever, a cam lever, and a return spring. The fuel-release lever, when activated, opens the fuel-release valve. The cam lever, when in the locked position is aligned with the stopper tab, impedes operation of the trigger. The return spring urges the cam lever into the locked position and the fuel-release lever into the closed position. The cam mechanism is operated by a safety button, as the safety button is depressed the cam mechanism rotates. Rotating the cam mechanism moves the cam lever out of alignment from the stopper tab. Thus allowing the trigger to be depressed and the fuel-release lever is also moved opening the fuel-release valve, as the safety button is released the return spring urges the cam mechanism into the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Inventor: Kil Yong Sung
  • Patent number: 6186777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a utility lighter platform which includes a lighting mechanism configured to selectively ignite fuel supplied from a fuel supply container, and a frame configured to operatively house the lighting mechanism and configured to receive an outer shell thereon. The frame includes a fuel supply container housing structure configured to hold a fuel supply container at a first end of the frame and an insulating cap holding structure configured to receive an insulating cap at a second end of the frame and configured to house a nozzle operatively connected to the fuel supply. The frame also includes an ignitor assembly holding structure configured to house an ignitor assembly, and a trigger holding structure configured to operatively hold a trigger stem with which to activate the ignitor assembly and to release fuel from the fuel supply in order to ignite fuel received at the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: BIC Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Ferrara, Brian Tubby, Paul Adams
  • Patent number: 6168423
    Abstract: A BBQ or fireplace lighter, including a child resistant device to prevent operation by children, and in particular, small children. In one embodiment, the device is in the form of a pivotally mounted lever having a notch engaging a plate in the trigger, locking the trigger from operation. The trigger release mechanism includes a button extending out of the lighter housing immediately behind the trigger guard for operation by a finger while the trigger is operated by the index or another finger. A second embodiment is comprised of a trigger guard plate having a thumb tab extending out of the top of the housing mounted on a rotatable hub. The guard plate engages and obstructs operation of the trigger. A spring biases the guard plate against the trigger to prevent operation, but can be rotated out of the way by rotating the thumb tab to a stop position moving trigger guard plate out of engagement of the trigger, allowing operation of the BBQ or fireplace lighter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Inventor: Aman Chung Kai Man
  • Patent number: 6050810
    Abstract: A lighter includes a housing having a valve seat, and a trigger for actuating an igniting device. A plug is slidably received in the housing and biased to engage with the valve seat. A latch is pivotally secured in the housing and has a hook for engaging with the trigger and for preventing the trigger from being actuated. A knob may disengage the latch from the trigger when the knob is moved relative to the housing and may engage with the plug for disengaging the plug from the valve seat. The trigger may not be actuated before the latch is disengaged from the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Inventor: Ying Fang Huang
  • Patent number: 6042366
    Abstract: A lantern includes a housing, a fuel inlet, and a flame guard surrounding the region in which the fuel is burned. A shield is hingedly connected to the housing to allow movement between a closed position in which the shield protects the flame guard and blocks access to the fuel inlet, and an open position. The shield may be made of two parts, and a crenulated bail may be used to hang the lantern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: The Coleman Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Norris R. Long, Randall L. May, Thomas Mark Benton, Scott Wayne Luty, Robert J. Gross, Paul King, Mike Joss
  • Patent number: 5980242
    Abstract: A BBQ or fireplace lighter, including a child resistant device to prevent operation by children, and in particular, small children. In one embodiment, the device is in the form of a pivotally mounted lever having a notch engaging a plate in the trigger, locking the trigger from operation. The trigger release mechanism includes a button extending out of the lighter housing immediately behind the trigger guard for operation by a finger while the trigger is operated by the index or another finger. A second embodiment is comprised of a trigger guard plate having a thumb tab extending out of the top of the housing mounted on a rotatable hub. The guard plate engages and obstructs operation of the trigger. A spring biases the guard plate against the trigger to prevent operation, but can be rotated out of the way by rotating the thumb tab to a stop position moving trigger guard plate out of engagement of the trigger, allowing operation of the BBQ or fireplace lighter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Inventor: Aman Chung Kai Man
  • Patent number: 5938430
    Abstract: A liquid fuel lamp having a fuel container for containing a combustible liquid fuel, the fuel container having an open mouth. A non-metallic flame guard is connected to the fuel container and closes the mouth, the flame guard having a flared skirt that extends radially outward, covering the fuel container, and a wick opening in the flame guard, located above the mouth of the fuel container. A flame resistant wick holder is located in the wick opening and is not in contact with the fuel container. A wick extends upwardly from within the fuel container, through the wick holder, to a location above the flame guard without any continuous metallic heat flow path from the wick holder to the fuel container. The portion of the wick beneath the flame guard is guarded from free contact with the atmosphere surrounding the lamp by the combined action of the fuel container, flame guard, and wick holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
    Inventor: Amelia H. Majerowski
  • Patent number: 5885070
    Abstract: A gas control mechanism includes a housing having a chamber for receiving a lighter and having an upper wall and a mouth secured on top. The lighter has a gas nozzle and a pivot lever having one end coupled to the gas nozzle. A tube has one end extended through the upper wall and coupled to the mouth and has a gasket secured to the bottom for engaging with the gas nozzle. The gasket includes an orifice for receiving gas from the gas nozzle. A spring may bias the gasket to engage with the gas nozzle, and a trigger may actuate the lever to actuate the gas nozzle. The gas nozzle is forced to engage with the gasket and to make an air tight seal between the tube and the gas nozzle when the gas nozzle is actuated by the trigger via the lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Inventor: Arlo H. T. Lin
  • Patent number: 5800158
    Abstract: A new Outdoor Open Fire Igniter for igniting outdoor fires, such as campfires, without conventional kindling required whether the wood is wet or dry. The inventive device includes an elongated hose secured to a portable gas tank, a control valve secured to the elongated hose opposite of the portable gas tank, a gas tube secured to the control valve, an elongated outer tube with a plurality of radially positioned gas aperture secured to the control valve surrounding the gas tube, and a support stand removably coupling to the elongated outer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Inventor: Victor H. De Groot
  • Patent number: 5786574
    Abstract: A baseball bat warmer including an elongated cylindrical sleeve member that has a cylindrical side wall defining an interior cavity. The sleeve member is formed of a resilient material of two woven fabrics sandwiching an insulating padding. A vertical fastener releasable couples vertical edges of a vertical cut through the cylindrical side wall portion of the sleeve member. Included is a generally rectangular pouch that is open at a top edge and has a battery connector. The pouch is fixedly attached to the side wall of the sleeve member. Lastly, a battery housing is sized and shaped so as to receive a plurality of cylindrical batteries. The battery housing, with the batteries therein, is positioned within the pouch for coupling of a battery connector of the pouch with the battery connector of the housing. The batteries provide DC current to the heating wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Inventor: Demetrius Garnett
  • Patent number: 5771880
    Abstract: A multipurpose gas burner includes a rear housing, a front housing, a pressure regulating device, a control device, a gas release device and an outer tube unit. The rear housing contains a conventional gas container and is provided with a press rod and an insert nozzle connected to a gas spout of the gas container. Upon pressing a push button, a lower slide seat will press against a piezo-electric device while an upper slide seat is relatively displaces to cause the press rod to press against the gas spout of the gas container to release fuel gas. The pressure regulating device regulates the pressure of the fuel gas and controls its outflow. The regulated fuel gas is ejected via a gas nozzle into the gas release device where it is mixed with air drawn in from the outside. The mixture is then ejected by a fire nozzle and is ignited by sparks generated by means of the piezo-electric device at the outer tube unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 5738507
    Abstract: A gas igniter comprising a main body provided with a gas tank for storing liquified gas to be used as a fuel, a front pipe in the form of a hollow bar extending from the main body, a jetting nozzle for jetting out a gas, and a gas pipe connected between the main body and the jetting nozzle. The nozzle is disposed at a front part of the front pipeAt least a part of the front pipe, excluding the front part thereof where the jetting nozzle is disposed, is formed by a flexible member having a restoring force whereby it is bent so that the direction in which the front part is pointed is changed, when an external force is applied, and is restored to the original state in which it is at the time when the external force is not applied, after the external force is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Tokai Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Mifune, Noriyuki Serizawa, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 5725369
    Abstract: A gas torch having a body provided with a connected socket to install a gas-can thereof. A control device is connected to top of the body to control the supply and shutoff of the gas flow. The body is connected with a regulating device to ensure a complete vaporization of liquefied gas and keep the gas pressure constantly. The gas is directed to an injected orifice via a preset route within the body. The injected gas is well mixed within a burning nozzle and ignited by piezo electricity device. Those described components are enclosed by a housing. A branching rod and a baking tube such that the gas torch can be served as a baking device. The burning nozzle can be readily replaced with another type and different flame patterns can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 5687705
    Abstract: An aluminum baseball or softball bat warmer with an inner and outer container separated by an air space. The inner container is adapted to receive a bat and is supported inside the outer container on a hanger with an aperture. A convective thermal source is positioned below the hanger. Warmed air from the convective thermal source is directed through the aperture in the hanger and circulates through the air space, warming the sidewall of the inner container and the bat therein. By heating the aluminum bat, the possibility of cold denting and cracking thin walled aluminum bats formed of "CU-31" alloy, "C405" alloy or like, is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Inventor: Eddie D. Blair
  • Patent number: 5616022
    Abstract: An ignitor and scraper device for use with barbecue grills has a hollow handle portion and an elongated tubular member extending therefrom. The handle portion houses a battery having ignitor wires that extend through the tubular member to a distal end, and a fuel cell for holding a supply of fuel. A fuel line leads from the fuel cell to the distal end of the tubular member. A valve responds to a trigger mechanism to allow fuel to flow in the fuel line. The trigger mechanism actuates the battery to generate a spark to ignite the fuel. A metal tube is secured in the tubular member and extends beyond the distal end of the tubular member, wherein the metal tube is shaped into a pair of tines. The tines are spaced to fit a barbecue rod for cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Inventor: Thomas J. Moran, IV
  • Patent number: 5537989
    Abstract: A device for extracting and positioning an embedded ignitable end of a candle wick includes a coupling element mountable at the flame discharge end of candle lighter, a working element adapted to be maneuvered to extract the embedded ignitable end of the candle wick from candle wax and to reposition the extracted ignitable end of the candle wick at a position free from the wax, and an elongated support member with the coupling element attached to one of the opposite ends of the support member such that the support member extends along a flame exiting from the flame discharge end of the candle lighter. The working element is attached to the other of the opposite ends of the support member such that the working element is spaced forwardly of the flame discharge end of the candle ligher and positioned in proximity to flame so that the working element is heated by the flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Inventors: Ray A. York, Jr., Shelley Dukes
  • Patent number: 5531592
    Abstract: A handy gas torch of the type having a holder for accommodating a disposable cigarette lighter, a fuel gas control device for controlling the fuel gas nozzle of the cigarette lighter, a firing device for producing sparks, a mount detachably mounted on the holder at the top to hold the firing device and the fuel gas control device, wherein the fuel gas control device includes a torch nozzle connected to the fuel gas nozzle of the cigarette lighter by a nozzle tube and a connecting tube assembly, a slide switch, a pressure rod driven by the slide switch to press the push button of the cigarette lighter in opening the fuel gas nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1996
    Inventor: Chin-Lin Tasi
  • Patent number: 5505614
    Abstract: A handy gas torch including a gas lighter container, which holds a gas lighter, a top case covered on the gas lighter container, a top cover shell covered on the top case to hold down a flame nozzle and an push-button type ignition control knob at two opposite ends, an electronic ignition device received in a chamber inside the top case and controlled by the ignition control knob to catch fire in the flame nozzle, a slide switch moved in a vertical sliding way to press the gas lever of the gas lighter causing it to release fuel gas for burning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Inventor: Arlo H. T. Lin
  • Patent number: 5485829
    Abstract: A moldable central body for use in a catalytic burner has a generally rotational symmetry about a longitudinal axis. It provides a cover retaining surface for the cover of the unit; furnishes the bayonet pin for receiving the cover; carries spacers positioning itself within the outer casing; holds the wave member in position; holds the stem support in position, which, in turn, holds the valve seat; provides a pivot hole for the spoon pivot for a curling iron; is a seat and shoulder for the diaphragm; provides an inner surface to hold alignment members for the control stem; holds the seat for the spring for the control stem; and provides a barrel retaining surface for a curling iron barrel. The control stem of a regulation element moves axially within the central body.The central body can be molded of plastic as a single integral piece. Since this central body serves so many functions and, yet, can be molded as a single integral piece, it reduces the cost of manufacture of the burner of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Conair Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Santhouse, H. Roy Taylor
  • Patent number: 5476378
    Abstract: The pressure head needed to drive combustion air into the combustion region (46) of a heat gun (930) is imparted to the air by a compressor blades (36) driven by a turbine whose blades (32) are interposed in the fuel conduit that leads to the combustion region (46). The expansion of the gaseous fuel, which is obtained from a pressurized source, provides the power to impose the necessary pressure head. The turbine-compressor combination is efficient enough that it can extract from the fuel flow enough power to maintain the necessary pressure head not only on the combustion gas (A.sub.1), which flows through vents (44) in a manifold (43), but also on a larger volume of air (A.sub.2) delivered downstream of the combustion region (46) to dilute the combustion products and thereby cool them to the desired heat-gun output temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Shrinkfast Marketing
    Inventors: Dimiter S. Zagoroff, Arnold M. Heitmann
  • Patent number: 5470227
    Abstract: A cutting torch allows the preheat oxygen and fuel valves to remain in a preset position while the torch is off. The cutting torch has preheat oxygen and fuel cutoff valves mounted in line with the adjusting valves. The cutoff valves are both operated linearly, each having an axially moving plunger. An actuator simultaneously moves the cutoff valves between opened and closed positions. The actuator has a locking device to lock them in the opened and closed positions. A pilot flame igniter utilizes a piezoelectric crystal and a pilot fuel valve positioned side by side with parallel axes. An igniter actuator in a single stroke opens the pilot fuel valve and causes an electrical spark to ignite the pilot flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Victor Equipment Company
    Inventors: Carl W. Mims, Roger D. Zwicker
  • Patent number: 5460520
    Abstract: A gas torch including a containing, which holds a disposable gas lighter, a casing detachably connected to the container at a top thereof to hold an electric ignition device, the casing having a horizontal partition wall to hold a gas flow guide and a flame nozzle, and a trigger turned about a pivot inside the casing and controlled to depress the gas lever of the disposable gas lighter and the control lever of the electronic ignition device, causing a flame produced at the flame nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Inventor: H. T. Arlo Lin
  • Patent number: 5408988
    Abstract: A soldering tool has a tip including a dispersing cylinder contained therein to disperse a gas stream and has a plurality of cooling fins at two sides of intermediate tubes. A hollow mixing tube has a needle hole disk surrounded by a plurality of air orifices to communicate with the inside, and a rotatable knurled knob for adjusting gas flow. A circular valve seal, made of elastic material has a radial shallow slot and a hollow valve seat body that is connected to a gas tank via a flexible tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1995
    Inventor: David Hsu
  • Patent number: 5374185
    Abstract: An economically improved self-igniting torch tip which provides for variable flame sizes through the selection and attachment of interchangeable burn tips and venturis. The torch tip also includes a conveniently located and durable built-in self-ignition system which is mounted in a heat resistant housing on the outside of the torch tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1994
    Assignee: Newell Operating Company
    Inventors: Richard D. Coulcher, Jr., Michael L. Ridley
  • Patent number: 5370528
    Abstract: A submergible torch for removing nitrate and/or nitrite ions from a waste solution containing nitrate and/or nitrite ions comprises: a torch tip, a fuel delivery mechanism, a fuel flow control mechanism, a catalyst, and a combustion chamber. The submergible torch is ignited to form a flame within the combustion chamber of the submergible torch. The torch is submerged in a waste solution containing nitrate and/or nitrite ions in such a manner that the flame is in contact with the waste solution and the catalyst and is maintained submerged for a period of time sufficient to decompose the nitrate and/or nitrite ions present in the waste solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alfred J. Mattus
  • Patent number: 5313931
    Abstract: A one hand coating stripping device and a method of stripping coating in which operator required control of the angle of flame impingement, flame intensity, speed of movement and removal of stripped material is reduced to the single operator mandated parameter of control of speed of movement of a stripping device which automatically orients the center line of the flame at the most effective angle of impingement and the scraper blade at the optimum angle of attack following a single adjustment of a gas-air mixture compatible with the fixed and constant angles of impingement and attack, the stripping action being carried out by the use of only one hand of an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Newell Operating Company
    Inventors: Richard D. Coulcher, Jr., Alan A. Hyde, Michael L. Ridley
  • Patent number: 5222889
    Abstract: An electronic igniter which includes a spring holder to hold a gas lighter inside the housing thereof on the bottom, a metal gas nozzle having a gas inlet connected to the gas outlet of the gas lighter and a nozzle tip inserted into a hole on a metal top cover thereof spaced from a tip on the metal top cover, a piezo electronic unit having one end connected to the tip of the metal top cover and an opposite end connected to metal gas nozzle, and a control lever having an angle rod on the top stopped above the piezo electronic unit, a presser rod on the bottom stopped above the gas lever of the gas lighter, and a knob on the middle extended out of the housing. Pressing the knob of the control lever causes the piezo electronic unit to produce sparks between the nozzle tip of the gas nozzle and the tip of the metal top cap in burning the flow of fuel gas ejected through the gas nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1993
    Assignee: Chein Sheng Machine Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kun-Chung Hsu
  • Patent number: 5154601
    Abstract: A liquefied gas kitchen lighter in which the actuating means of the valve of the gas reservoir comprises a straight tubular member coaxial with straight container tube. The latter contains the piezo-electric generator and part of a burner, there being formed a generally straight route for the gas flow from the reservoir to the burner. The actuating means at the same time actuates the generator and provide the necessary electrical connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Flamagas, S.A.
    Inventor: Francisco Xavier Lloveras Capilla
  • Patent number: 5135388
    Abstract: An extended-handle lighter including an elongated handle, a socket at one end of the handle for receiving a butane lighter, an actuator mounted at the other end of the handle, and a linkage extending between the actuator and the lighter for selectively causing the lighter to produce a flame. The linkage can either be a flexible cable or a rigid rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Inventor: Frederick M. Pettit