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US 4,102,631 AGranted
Battery operated lighter equipped with a battery operated timepiece
AssigneeMansei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenjiro Goto
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Abstract
A battery operated lighter equipped with a battery operated timepiece which includes a lighter ignition circuit and a timepiece circuit wherein a switch is used in common for selectively manipulating the lighter ignition circuit or the timepiece circuit.
Claims18
A battery operated lighter equipped with a battery operated timepiece comprising:
- a casing;
- a fuel tank for maintaining a gas fuel;
- a burner nozzle for issuing the gas fuel from said fuel tank;
- a lighter ignition circuit for generating a spark at said burner nozzle;
- a timepiece circuit having a time indication unit;
- a battery for supplying electric energy to said lighter ignition circuit and said timepiece circuit;
- a switch used in common for manipulating said two circuits and including a first, second and third switch contacts;
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- a control means provided in mechanical connection with said switch, wherein said first and second switch contacts are adapted to close said lighter ignition circuit and wherein the positional relationship of these first and second switch contacts is controlled by said control means so that one of said first and second switch contacts may selectively brought into contact with said third switch contact to manipulate said timepiece circuit.
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