Lighter with cigarette package holder portion
AssigneeDentsu Central Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasao Kaneyasu
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Abstract
A combined lighter and cigarette package holder device which is useful either by itself as a lighter or as a lighter in combination with a cigarette package, particularly a soft package, which includes arm members attached to a cigarette package holder base member for hinged movement with respect thereto for holding the cigarette package with effective protection for cigarettes contained in the cigarette package. The combined lighter and cigarette package holder device, when used in combination with a cigarette package, permits the smoker to easily take out a cigarette from the cigarette package for smoking, but otherwise act to positively retain cigarettes therein.
Claims10
A combined lighter and cigarette package holder device comprising a base member contoured in a substantial tetragon shape, a lighter portion contoured in a substantial flat parallelopipedon shape and having one ridgeline hingingly attached to one side of one surface of the base member such that it can rotate between a first position where it is placed on the base member and a second position where it is placed perpendicularly with respect to the base member, spring means for urging the lighter portion towards the first position, at least one arm member hinged to each of the opposite sides of the base member which are perpendicular to the side thereof to which the lighter is hinged such that each of the arm members can rotate between a first position where it is placed adjacent the base member and a second position where it is placed perpendicularly to the base member, spring means for urging the arm members toward the first position, and the lighter portion including a gas ejection nozzle, a flint for igniting the gas ejected through the nozzle, an operation wheel for rotating a file in sliding contact with the flint and having at least a part projecting from a surface of the lighter portion, and a valve-opening button normally closing a valve for the nozzle and opening the valve when depressed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.