US3371506A - Friction wheel cigarette lighter - Google Patents

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US3371506A
US3371506A US491988A US49198865A US3371506A US 3371506 A US3371506 A US 3371506A US 491988 A US491988 A US 491988A US 49198865 A US49198865 A US 49198865A US 3371506 A US3371506 A US 3371506A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q2/00—Lighters containing fuel, e.g. for cigarettes
    • F23Q2/34—Component parts or accessories
    • F23Q2/40—Cover fastenings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q2/00—Lighters containing fuel, e.g. for cigarettes
    • F23Q2/02—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure
    • F23Q2/04—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure with cerium-iron alloy and wick with friction ignition
    • F23Q2/06—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure with cerium-iron alloy and wick with friction ignition with friction wheel
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q2/00—Lighters containing fuel, e.g. for cigarettes
    • F23Q2/02—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure
    • F23Q2/04—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure with cerium-iron alloy and wick with friction ignition
    • F23Q2/06—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure with cerium-iron alloy and wick with friction ignition with friction wheel
    • F23Q2/08—Lighters with liquid fuel fuel which is fluid at atmospheric pressure with cerium-iron alloy and wick with friction ignition with friction wheel with ignition by spring action of the cover
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23Q—IGNITION; EXTINGUISHING-DEVICES
    • F23Q2/00—Lighters containing fuel, e.g. for cigarettes
    • F23Q2/16—Lighters with gaseous fuel, e.g. the gas being stored in liquid phase
    • F23Q2/161—Lighters with gaseous fuel, e.g. the gas being stored in liquid phase with friction wheel

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  • ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A hinge structure for a cigarette lighter having an ex tinguishing cap carrier With walls provided with studreceiving holes and guide grooves of decreasing depth for studs on flexible press lever walls. Easy assembly is effected by sliding the studs along the grooves into engagement with the holes.
  • the invention relates to a smokers lighter of the kind having a friction wheel with a pivot axis common to an extinguishing cap carrier coupled with said wheel, a press lever for actuation of the lighter being linked to the extinguishing cap carrier, the rearward end of the extinguishing cap carrier being supported relative to the lighter housing by means of a strut and acted on by a closure spring.
  • lighters may use petrol or gas as fuel.
  • the invention is concerned with the connection of the extinguishing cap carrier with the press lever and it is an object of the invention to provide a lighter in which this connection is such as to enable simple manufacture and assembly. It is a further object of the invention to provide such a lighter in which the said connection is not visible from the outside of the lighter.
  • the connection between the extinguishing cap carrier and the press lever is effected by inwardly extending short studs provided on the two. side walls of the press lever, which in assembly of the lighter slide along short grooves or channels provided in the side walls of the extinguishing cap carrier so as to snap into receiving holes provided therefor in the extinguishing cap carrier.
  • the grooves are so shaped that from the ends thereof at which the studs first engage, as far as the ends thereof which border the receiving holes, the depth of the grooves 3,371,506 Patented Mar. 5, 1968 lessens.
  • assembly of the lighter is accordingly very simple, without it being necessary to use studs provided with left and right hand threads, or other complicated assembly components. Moreover, by avoiding the necessity of introducing screw threaded studs after the extinguishing cap carrier and the press lever are assembled together, it can be achieved that the pivot studs are invisible from the outside of the lighter, whereas when threaded studs are used, the stud heads and the screw-driver slots therein can clearly be seen.
  • FIG. 1 is an elevation view, partly in section, of a lighter of the invention, in the actuated position;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view to a larger scale than FIG. 1, showing a press lever and an extinguishing cap carrier of the lighter of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of the components shown in FIG. 2, with the extinguishing cap carrier in section.
  • the lighter comprises a housing 1 on the top of which a bearing frame 6 is fixed.
  • the bearing frame 6 carries a pivot shaft 5 which mounts a rotatable friction wheel 4 for acting on a flint (not shown) and pivotally mounts an extinguishing cap carrier 2, having an extinguishing cap 3 which serves for snufling the lighter flame.
  • the extinguishing cap carrier is connected at its rearward end to a press layer 7 by a connection which will subsequently be described, the press lever 7 being supported from the top of the lighter by a strut 8 and being under the action of a closure spring 9 which normally maintains the lighter in the closed position and which returns the press lever 7 and the extinguishing cap carrier 2 to the closed positions after actuation of the lighter.
  • connection can be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • the connection is provided by short steel studs 10 which are riveted into the two side walls of flexible material, preferably steel, of the press lever 7, so as to extend inwardly, any portions of the studs which project outwardly being ground down or so worked that no trace of the studs is visible from the outside, as evidence by FIG. 1.
  • the studs 10 are intended to snap into holes 11 in the cap carrier 2 on assembly of the lighter.
  • grooves 12 are machined in the two side walls of the cap carrier 2 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the grooves 12 leading to the holes 11 but being of a depth which decreases from the end of the grooves in which the studs first engage during assembly of the lighter, that is to say the right hand end as viewed in FIG. 3.
  • the press lever 7 is moved in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. 3, onto the cap carrier 2, so that the studs 10 engage in the grooves 12 and approach the holes 11. During this movement, the studs, riding on the tapering groove bottoms, cause the side Walls of the press lever 7 to spring slightly outwardly. When the studs 10 have cleared the grooves 12 they snap into the holes 11, which provide captive pivots for the studs, the grooves 12 merely serving for facilitating assembly.
  • a friction wheel cigarette lighter in combination, a lighter housing, a bearing frame secured to the top of said housing, a pivot shaft fixedly secured to said bearing frame, an extinguishing cap carrier and a friction wheel pivotable on said shaft and rotatable with said extinguishing cap, said cap carrier being formed with a pair of spaced parallel side Walls having each a stud receiving hole and a guide groove extending from an end of said wall and merging with the respective ones of said holes, said grooves being of a depth decreasing from the ends of the respective walls, a press lever having another pair of parallel spaced Walls adapted to receive said cap carrier in slidable engagement therebetween, a pair of inwardly extending studs riveted to each of said other pair of spaced walls, said studs being adapted to be received in the respective ones of said stud-receiving holes and slidable in said guide grooves, said other pair of walls being of flexible material, whereby during the assembly of the lighter by sliding the studs along in

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US3549290A (en) * 1967-11-10 1970-12-22 Tetra Molectric Ltd Cigarette lighters
US4043000A (en) * 1976-06-14 1977-08-23 Hi-Shear Corporation Knee joint coupling
US4220253A (en) * 1978-10-27 1980-09-02 Ryder International Corporation Hinge structure
US4300269A (en) * 1980-02-19 1981-11-17 Boden Ogden W Cord locks or the like resistant to tampering
US5793016A (en) * 1997-01-10 1998-08-11 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Remote foot control for TIG welding
US5911264A (en) * 1997-12-01 1999-06-15 Northern Telecom Limited Hinge pin ramp, retainer and doorstop for a frame door
US6326592B1 (en) 2000-08-25 2001-12-04 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Base for foot control

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GB586982A (en) * 1944-10-12 1947-04-09 Reginald James Wayment Racher Improvements in or relating to pyrophoric lighting appliances
US2671329A (en) * 1949-12-27 1954-03-09 Zahn Hermann Mechanical pocket lighter
US2938227A (en) * 1957-08-28 1960-05-31 Republic Steel Corp Hinge construction
US3007328A (en) * 1958-05-03 1961-11-07 Zahn Hermann Automatic gas cigarette-lighter
US3156756A (en) * 1961-06-07 1964-11-10 American Optical Corp Hinge construction

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GB586982A (en) * 1944-10-12 1947-04-09 Reginald James Wayment Racher Improvements in or relating to pyrophoric lighting appliances
US2671329A (en) * 1949-12-27 1954-03-09 Zahn Hermann Mechanical pocket lighter
US2938227A (en) * 1957-08-28 1960-05-31 Republic Steel Corp Hinge construction
US3007328A (en) * 1958-05-03 1961-11-07 Zahn Hermann Automatic gas cigarette-lighter
US3156756A (en) * 1961-06-07 1964-11-10 American Optical Corp Hinge construction

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3549290A (en) * 1967-11-10 1970-12-22 Tetra Molectric Ltd Cigarette lighters
US4043000A (en) * 1976-06-14 1977-08-23 Hi-Shear Corporation Knee joint coupling
US4220253A (en) * 1978-10-27 1980-09-02 Ryder International Corporation Hinge structure
US4300269A (en) * 1980-02-19 1981-11-17 Boden Ogden W Cord locks or the like resistant to tampering
US5793016A (en) * 1997-01-10 1998-08-11 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Remote foot control for TIG welding
US5911264A (en) * 1997-12-01 1999-06-15 Northern Telecom Limited Hinge pin ramp, retainer and doorstop for a frame door
US6326592B1 (en) 2000-08-25 2001-12-04 Illinois Tool Works Inc. Base for foot control

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