Lighter

A lighter comprising:

• a lighter body for storing fuel;
• valve means, attached to an upper portion of said lighter body, for stopping injection of said fuel when closed and permitting injection of said fuel when open;
• ignition means, provided at said upper portion of said lighter body and activatable as needed to ignite said fuel injected by opening of said valve means;
• lift-up means, arranged rotatable via a rotary shaft at said upper portion of said lighter body and having one end connected to said valve means, for allowing said valve means to close when urged in one direction by an elastic member and opening said valve means when rotated in the opposite direction against urging force of said elastic member;
• and
• push-down means, provided movable along said lift-up means on a side of the other end thereof, a slide position of said push-down means being properly maintained by means forming a locking relationship with respect to said lighter body or said lift-up means,
• whereby when said lighter is not in use, said push-down means is kept positioned on said other end side of said lift-up means and has a lower end abutting against said lighter body to set a locked state to restrict a push-down action, as said push-down means is moved along said lift-up means toward said one end thereof, said locked state is released and a position of that movement of said push-down means toward said one end of said lift-up means is maintained by said means forming a locking relationship with respect to said lighter body or said lift-up means, when said push-down means is then pushed down, said means forming a locking relationship is released, said lift-up means is rotated to open said valve means and release said means forming a locking relationship and said ignition means is activated at a same time to ignite said fuel injected through said valve means, and when that downward action of said push-down means is released, said push-down means moves upward to an original state while moving toward said other end of said lift-up means returning by said urging force of said elastic member along said lift-up means.