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US 10,837,634 B2Granted
Torch with adjustable burn rate
AssigneeLamplight Farms Incorporated
InventorRobert Woodruff
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Abstract
A system includes a torch top having a wick holder extending along a portion of a wick in contact therewith for retaining the wick to extend from a lower side of the torch top to a level above an upper side the torch top. The system includes an adjustment sleeve exterior and concentric to the wick holder and moveable to extend upwardly to such an elevation as to be at least partially above an uppermost portion of the wick holder.
Claims15
A system comprising:
- a torch top having a wick holder extending along a portion of a wick in contact therewith for retaining the wick to extend from a lower side of the torch top to a level above an upper side of the torch top;
- an adjustment sleeve exterior and concentric to the wick holder and moveable to extend upwardly to such an elevation as to be at least partially above an uppermost portion of the wick holder;
- and
- an enclosure that houses at least a portion of the adjustment sleeve when the sleeve is in a retracted position;
- a fitting for a fuel reservoir in a fixed relationship with respect to the enclosure
- wherein the enclosure encompasses at least a portion of the wick holder;
- wherein the enclosure is partially above, and partially below, the fitting.
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A system comprising:
- a torch lid having a wick holder that grips a wick by contact forces along a length of the wick;
- a flame adjustment sleeve concentric to the wick holder and extendible from a lowered position where at least a portion of the wick is exposed above the wick holder and a raised position wherein the wick is covered by the flame adjustment sleeve above the wick holder;
- a pinion in contact with the flame adjustment sleeve that elevates and lowers the flame adjustment sleeve between the lowered and raised positions when rotated;
- a knob for rotating and counter rotating the pinion to raise and lower the flame adjustment sleeve;
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- an enclosure encompassing at least a portion of the wick holder and the flame adjustment sleeve;
- wherein the enclosure further comprises an upright wall bounded at a top thereof by an enclosure top and on a bottom thereof by an enclosure base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.