Abstract: A portable, flambeau torch utilizing liquid propane gas, butane, or the like fuel in contrast to the fluid kerosene or "white gas" of traditional flambeau devices. A backpack support (1) for the user or operator holds the gas containment tank (6) and first regulator stage (10). A torch frame (18-19/20-22) carrying a multiple number of burners (23a-d) is connected to the tank by means of a quick disconnect (12) hose (11) and an internal passageway formed by the hollow, closed ended, tubular members making up the torch frame. A hand manipulated, quick release, kill switch (14) is held down by the operator to allow the gas to continuously flow to the burners during use (see FIG. 3). Concentric cylindrical members (23 and 25 ) form combustion chambers (32) for the burners.

Abstract: In this invention, two connecting devices are provided in a burner device to accommodate liquefied gas cylinders/fuel tanks having different mounting cap configurations. The invention also includes a piezoelectric ignition device as part of the burner device for igniting gas provided by the liquefied gas cylinder/fuel tank.

Abstract: In this invention, two connecting devices are provided in a burner device to accommodate liquefied gas cylinders/fuel tanks having different mounting cap configurations. The invention also includes a piezoelectric ignition device as part of the burner device for igniting gas provided by the liquefied gas cylinder/fuel tank.

Abstract: A portable torch including: a gas tank containing therein a combustible gas and another gas tank containing therein a combustion supporting gas; a plurality of pressure regulating mechanisms, in which the primary pressure sides are connected to said gas tanks through plug opening mechanisms, respectively; and a torch portion is connected to the secondary pressure sides of the pressure regulating mechanisms through flexible gas feeding tubes, respectively, provided at the forward end thereof with a jet and having no gas flow rate regulating function. The pressure regulating mechanisms regulate the secondary pressure and gas flow rate from the jet through the secondary pressure. Check valves for blocking the flow of gas from the torch portion to the pressure regulating mechanisms is interposed between the respective pressure regulating mechanisms and the torch portion, to thereby prevent backfire of the flame of the jet.

Abstract: This invention relates to an elongated apparatus including a grip member which has a fuel reservoir and a gas supply valve therein, and an ignition mechanism having the burner nozzle connected with the reservoir. A middle member uniting the grip member and the ignition member together. The ignition mechanism is built-in and the flame produced thereby is sustained for as long as required.

Abstract: A portable igniter for igniting logs on a fireplace grate to a flame burning state. The igniter is comprised of a tubular burner having fuel emitting ports adapted to be supported for placement beneath a grate on which the burner is connected via a separable coupling and flexible hose to a gas regulating valve mounted on a cylinder tank charged with propane gas. The burner portion of the apparatus is adapted to remain in place within the fireplace beneath the grate until a self-sustaining blaze is produced. The connector hose, regulator valve and a propane cylinder are normally detached after ignition of a log is completed and are thereafter stored conveniently in and about the household for future use.

Abstract: Disclosed is apparatus for igniting combustible material fin a fireplace or the like. The apparatus includes a portable, self contained pressurized canister of a fuel such as propane or butane. A burner is secured to a grate or the like in the fireplace. A conduit extends from the canister to the burner for conveying the fuel and releasing the fuel through apertures in the burner adjacent the combustible material. The fuel is then ignited externally of the burner. The conduit is connected to the burner by a connector that is easily engaged or disengaged so that during periods of nonuse, the burner remains secured to the grate and the canister and conduit may be remotely stored. Preferably, the apparatus includes means for regulating the flow of the fuel and the mixture of the fuel with air prior to release of the air/fuel mixture from the burner.

Abstract: A torch handle is provided which includes a mechanism for locking the valve in the closed position. An actuator collar is positioned to be manually actuable with one hand to a forwardmost or open position. The quick-disconnect coupling assembly has a coupling collar, which may be retracted to remove a torch tip and thereby moves the actuator collar to return the valve to the closed position.

Abstract: A simple, streamlined portable hand torch for attachment to a small propane or regulated natural gas tank includes an elongated barrel containing a venturi passage extending between the ends of the barrel, and a recess normally closed by a removable cover containing a retention gas line, a handle attached to one end of the barrel for receiving the top end of a propane tank; or quick disconnect for natural gas the handle containing an inlet passage for feeding gas to inlet ends of the retention gas line and the venturi passage; an elongated burner tube connected to the outlet end of the venturi passage; a burner nozzle on the outer free end of the burner tube; a retention line for carrying propane or natural gas from the retention line in the recess to the perforated outer free end of the burner nozzle; a spark plug extending into the venturi passage for igniting the propane/natural gas and air introduced through an opening in the bottom of the barrel; a piezoelectric arc crystal for firing the spark plug, and

Abstract: Apparatus for igniting a fire in a fireplace or the like, including a canister for compressed combustible gas, a gas release valve, and an elongated hose and a shape-retaining terminal tube, the terminal tube being characterized by having a handle proximate the end thereof connected to the hose, a burn portion equipped with a row of small openings, and a leg portion at each end of the burn portion for supporting the burn portion above a fireplace floor, the distal end of the tube being closed.

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: An improved device for safer lighting of gas or candle fires. The device comprises a flexible tube connected to a hand-held body member, through which a wick is passed. The soft metal tube may be bent into compound angles to ease access of the lighter to the fuel source in difficult to light applications, such as hot water heaters. An end cap on the body member may be configured for candle snuffing use, or may be replaced by a length extension member.

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 torch having oxygen and fuel gas passages from the torch butt to the torch tip, and valving apparatus for controlling the flow of oxygen and fuel gas from fuel and oxygen adapters on the torch butt to said passages, the valving apparatus including a valve seat, a valve stem, a first ball retained in a valve stem bore for rotation relative to the valve stem and abuttable against the valve seat to block fluid flow therethrough while the valve stem is spaced from the valve seat and a second ball rotatably mounted in a valve stem bore to abut against the first ball axially opposite the valve seat, and lubricant for being transferred from the second ball to the first ball as the valve stem rotates relative the first ball and the first ball rotates relative to the second ball, the first ball being of a substantially larger diameter than the second ball.

Abstract: A portable gas hand torch igniter and burner assembly of the piezoelectric-type to be assembled onto a portable pressurized gas fuel cylinder which includes a handgrip housing body having an internal cavity gas conduit network, and an elongated burn tube having a venturi portion at its inlet end and an end-tapered orifice cylinder removably mounted in the venturi portion. A gas pressure regulator valve mechanism maintains a substantially constant predetermined gas supply pressure level at the inlet portion of said gas conduit network and a control valve associated with a push button normally closes the conduit network against passage of gas to the burn tube. A piezoelectric igniter in said housing body is actuated by inward depression of the push button to open the control valve to admit gas to the burn tube and generate a spark-producing voltage a predetermined short interval after opening of the control valve to produce a spark within the burn tube.

Abstract: An elongated shank has a handgrip at the rear end portion. At the forward end portion there is a holder for releasably retaining a cigarette lighter of the throwaway gas or butane type having a conventional flint wheel and a gas valve actuator. An actuator rod is guided for reciprocable sliding movement along the shank. The rod is urged forward along the shank by a biasing spring and may be pulled backward against the spring by a trigger adjacent the handgrip. An integral outer extension of the rod, forward of the holder, is movable between extended and retracted positions by the biasing spring and the trigger, respectively. An elastic friction member, consisting of a backwardly extending, cantileverly supported, diagonally oriented coil spring is mounted on the outer extension and is movable backward by the trigger to engage and rotate the flint wheel and depress the valve actuator. This ignites the lighter and holds it ignited as long as the trigger is held.

Abstract: An extension lighter is described for the ignition of hard to reach material such as fireplaces, grills and the like. A conventional self contained lighter having a switch-on and switch-off control is mounted on an extension comprising a lighter holder and an operating arm or plunger. The lighter is removably mounted on one end of the holder and a trigger grip is provided permitting the user to both ignite and to extinguish the lighter by means of the plunger without directly operating the lighter itself.

Abstract: The lighter of the present invention includes a handle for grasping by the user connected to a chamber for holding a disposable lighter. The chamber has a trigger mechanism connected thereto for depressing the fuel releasing element of the lighter. The chamber also has a hollow metal rod extending therefrom and aligned with the fuel supply element of the lighter in such a manner as to convey the fuel from the lighter to the end of the rod.

Abstract: A portable hand-held oxypropane torch comprising a generally rectangular carrier member supporting an oxygen valve and a propane valve and having an integral handle connected thereto. The oxygen valve is connected in fluid communication to a nozzle conduit. The propane valve is connected to a propane conduit which is connected in gaseous fluid communication with said nozzle downstream from the point where the oxygen valve is connected to the nozzle conduit. The nozzle conduit has a downwardly inclined end portion terminating in a nozzle.

Abstract: An elongated shank is provided having structure on one end defining a handgrip and a longitudinally split sleeve has the side thereof remote from the split portion secured to and extending along the other end portion of the shank. The split sleeve defines a generally cylindrical clamp in that it is constructed of resilient material and the sleeve removably receives a cylindrical butane lighter therein. In this manner, the lighter may be actuated and the shank may be gripped by the end thereof remote from the lighter in order to position the flame of the lighter in an otherwise inaccessible location or a location in which the user of the lighter does not wish to place his hand. Accordingly, the lighter may be utilized to start a fire in a fireplace, to ignite the pilot light of a furnace or hot water heater and to ignite a gas fired outdoor broiler or the like.

Abstract: A gas fired apparatus discharging a mixed gas-air flow through a barrel into a confined area such as a rodent burrow. An igniter in said barrel ignites the gas-air mixture. A control assembly includes closely coupled gas and ignition controls enabling one hand operation. An extensible, ground engaging support positions the apparatus in an inclined manner for barrel penetration of a burrow opening. A valve in said barrel regulates gas-air mixing.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for protecting human beings from the combined aftereffects of a nuclear explosion, namely, penetrating radiation and the settling of carbon dioxide in low areas. A warning barrier of rope or cord with newspaper suspended therefrom is erected in the upper level of a building to delineate a safe area beyond the penetration distances of alpha and beta radiation. A combustion means having an exposed flame is provided within the safe area for insertion through an aperture in the floor into the basement of the building where refuge is to be sought against more penetrating gamma radiation. The flame is observed through a second aperture to check and verify the quality of the atmosphere therein before entering the basement.

Abstract: An elongated shank has a handgrip at the rear end portion. At the forward end portion there is a holder for releasably retaining a cigarette lighter of the throw-away gas or butane type having a conventional flint wheel and a gas valve actuator. An actuator rod is guided for reciprocable sliding movement along the shank. The rod is urged forward along the shank by a biasing spring and may be pulled backward against the spring by a trigger adjacent the handgrip. An integral outer extension of the rod, forward of the holder, is movable between extended and retracted positions by the biasing spring and the trigger, respectively. An elastic friction member, consisting of a backwardly extending, cantileverly supported, diagonally oriented coil spring is mounted on the outer extension and is movable backward by the trigger to engage and rotate the flint wheel and depress the valve actuator. This ignites the lighter and holds it ignited as long as the trigger is held.