US 4,315,731 AGranted

Elongated igniting device

OwnerRobert W. Mooreinventor

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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. The device is adapted for lighting pilot lights of gas appliances, candles, fireplaces, barbecue grills, camping lights and stoves, and the like.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An elongated igniting device for a conventional cigarette lighter having a head end with a rotatable flint wheel adjacent a movable valve actuator controlling flow of fuel through a valve to an outlet port, said device comprising:

an elongated shank;
a handgrip on one end portion of said shank;
holding means on the opposite end portion of said shank for releasably retaining the cigarette lighter with the head end facing away from the hand grip;
an actuator rod guided for reciprocable movement parallel to said shank, said rod having an outer extension beyond the head end of the lighter and being movable between extended and retracted mode conditions relative to the lighter head end;
spring means biasing said actuator rod toward its said extended mode condition;
trigger means adjacent the hand grip and connected to the actuator rod, effective in response to pull on the trigger, to move said actuator rod to said retracted mode condition against the bias of said spring;
and
igniting means supported on said outer extension in position to engage and rotate the rim of said flint wheel and depress said valve actuator to ignite the lighter in response to movement of the actuator rod to its said retracted mode condition.

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