Torch having a rotatable safety cap

A torch including an ignition button having an ignition spring release member, the ignition button movable axially between an upper neutral position and a depressed ignition position, and a cap assembly, the cap assembly including:

• a) a torsion spring including:
• i) a spring coil configured to be retained on a pivot stem of the cap assembly,
• ii) an upper spring leg extending from the spring coil, including a down-turned tip, and
• iii) a lower spring extending from the spring coil, including an up-turned tip,
• b) an upper safety cap including:
• i) an upper surface wall having a portal through which a torch flame can be emitted, wherein the pivot stem extends from an underside of the upper surface wall, and
• ii) a post body extending from the underside of the upper surface wall and having a retaining slot extending axially within the post body, the retaining slot configured to receive and capture at least an upper portion of the up-turned tip of the lower spring leg of the torsion spring, in both a first position where the lower spring leg is adjacent the base, and a second position where the lower spring leg is moved axially away from the base and into the retaining slot, and
• c) a lower base cap, wherein the upper safety cap is configured to be rotatably fixed to the lower base cap, including
• i) a base having a base surface,
• ii) a pair of angularly-spaced walls, including a sweep wall and a neutral wall, extending upwardly from the base and configured to retain the lower spring leg and the upper spring leg of the torsion spring, respectively,
• iii) a ramp disposed angularly from the sweep wall, including an inclined surface that slopes from the base to a top surface, and that faces toward the sweep wall, and a rear blocking surface, disposed opposite the ramp surface, that extends downwardly from the top surface of ramp, and that faces away from the sweep wall,
• wherein the base of the lower base cap has a through opening adjacent and radially outboard from the rear blocking surface of the ramp,
• wherein the lower spring leg of the torsion spring is configured, upon manual rotation of the upper safety cap relative to the lower base cap, to sweep along the base surface, upwardly along the inclined surface of the ramp, and downwardly from the top surface to behind rear blocking surface of the ramp, and thereby compressing the torsion spring, and
• wherein the ignition spring release member is disposed axially below the base of the lower base cap when the ignition button is in its depressed ignition position, and is movable upwardly through the through opening when the ignition button moves to the upper neutral position, to engage and raise the lower spring leg up and over the rear blocking surface to the top surface of the ramp, where the release of the manual rotation biases the lower spring leg to the sweep wall.