Safety lighter with wheel hood
AssigneesPolycity Industrial Ltd., Tak Fi International (Holdings) Ltd.
InventorTak Chi Sher
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Abstract
A lighter including a lighter body containing fuel which is released through a nozzle. An actuating lever is placed on a mounting frame which is disposed on top of the lighter body. Activating the actuating lever causes fuel to flow through the nozzle. A striker rotatably mounted on the mounting frame is engaged to a piece of flint wherein rotating the striker against the piece of flint causes a spark to be generated, which ignites the fuel and causes a flame. A rotatable wheel hood having a safety position and an activation position is placed over the striker whereby placing the rotatable wheel hood in the safety position prevents the user from rotating the striker and causing a spark to be generated. Placing the wheel hood in the activation position allows the user to rotate the striker to generate a spark.
Claims15
A lighter comprising:
- (a) a lighter body containing fuel in its interior;
- (b) a nozzle disposed in communicating relationship with the lighter body's interior;
- (c) a mounting frame disposed atop said lighter body, said mounting frame including a stop point;
- (d) a nozzle actuating lever having a front end and a rear end, said front end engaged with said nozzle, said nozzle actuating level being pivotally mounted on said mounting frame so that depressing the rear end of said nozzle actuating level raises said front end and said nozzle and allows said fuel to pass from said interior of said lighter body through said nozzle;
- (e) a striker rotatably mounted on said mounting frame, said striker comprising a striker wheel and a striker wheel edge;
- (f) a piece of flint engagable with said striker wherein the rotation of said striker against said piece of flint causes said flint to produce a spark;
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- (g) a wheel hood rotatably mounted on said mounting frame and encircling said striker wheel, said wheel hood comprising a first stop edge extending across the width of said wheel hood, a second stop edge comprising a first and a second end with a gap between said first end and said second end, said gap being at least width of said stop point of said mounting frame, a space between said first stop edge and said second stop edge, and a shield wherein said shield will cover said striker wheel edge when said first stop edge is in communication with said stop point.
A gas light comprising:
- (a) a lighter body containing fuel in its interior;
- (b) a nozzle in fluid communication with the interior of said lighter body;
- (c) an actuating lever for controlling a flow of fuel through said nozzle;
- (d) a spark generating apparatus for generating a spark in response to operation thereof to ignite fuel which has flowed through said nozzle;
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- (e) a safety device having first and second positions, the safety device when its first position inhibiting a user from operating said spark generating apparatus and when it its said second position allowing the user to operate said spark generating apparatus, said safety device assuming said first position contemporaneously with the user operating said spark generating apparatus.
A lighter comprising:
- (a) a lighter body containing fuel in its interior;
- (b) a nozzle disposed in communicating relationship with the lighter body's interior;
- (c) a mounting frame disposed atop said lighter body, said mounting frame including a stop point;
- (d) a nozzle actuating lever having a front end and a rear end, said front end engaged with said nozzle, said nozzle actuating level being pivotally mounted on said mounting frame so that depressing the rear end of said nozzle actuating level raises said front end and said nozzle and allows said fuel to pass from said interior of said lighter body through said nozzle;
- (e) a striker rotatably mounted on said mounting frame, said striker comprising a striker wheel and a striker wheel edge;
- (f) a piece of flint engagable with said striker wherein the rotation of said striker against said peice of flint causes said flint to produce a spark;
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- (g) a cylindrically shaped wheel hood rotatably mounted on said mounting frame and encircling said striker wheel, said wheel hood comprising (i) a first end, (ii) a second end comprising a hole, and (iii) a cylindrical wall portion having a solid portion, a void portion, and a partially solid and partially void portion, a first stop edge located at the intersection of said solid and void portions and a second stop edge located at the intersection of said void portion and said partially solid and partially void portion and a third stop edge located at the intersection of said solid portion and said partially solid and partially void portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.