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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7165969 | Childproof safety disposable lighter A childproof safety disposable lighter includes a casing, a supporting frame detachably mounted on the casing, an ignition unit which is supported by the supporting frame and includes a striker wheel mounted between two driving wheels, and a pair of safety shells, w... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7104786 | Childproof disposable lighter An ignition unit for a lighter includes a striker wheel sandwiched between two driving units wherein each of the driving units includes a driven gear element and a driving cap. The striker wheel urges against a flint with its toothed surface of generating sparks. On... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7004750 | Ignition unit for disposable childproof lighter An ignition unit, which is incorporated with a disposable childproof lighter, includes a striker wheel for urging against a flint, two driven gear elements coaxially mounted at two sides of the striker wheel, and two driving caps mounted between the driven gear elem... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6962493 | Safety disposable lighter A lighter includes a shielding frame including a wind shielding guard and two safety guards integrally and rearwardly extended from two sidewalls of the wind shielding guard respectively. The shielding frame has a top ceiling and a top flame gate formed thereon to a... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6948927 | Childproof safety disposable lighter A childproof safety disposable lighter includes a casing, a supporting frame detachably mounted on the casing, an ignition unit which is supported by the supporting frame and includes a striker wheel mounted between two driving wheels, and a pair of safety shells, w... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945772 | Child resistant disposable lighter A child resistant disposable lighter includes a shielding frame including a U-shaped frame body and a pair of shielding guards. The frame body, which is mounted on a supporting frame, has two sidewalls positioned at two outer sides of the supporting walls respective... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6875011 | Lighter and flint holder A flint is easy to take out of a flint holder, which can be carried in a lighter. The flint holder consists of a holding part in the form of a thin plate, a fitting part and a molded hinge part, which integrally connects the holding and fitting parts in such a manne... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6716024 | Safety lighter In a standard lighter, a flame is obtained by rotating driving wheels of a striker wheel onto a spark stone. A pair of brake discs are mounted on an axis of a wheel assembly. Each of the pair of brake discs has a same diameter as that of the driving wheels. The pair... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6695610 | Lighter The present invention involves a lighter for preventing unintended use. In one aspect, a striker wheel including a rotation limiting means is provided, where an arc formed by the rotation limiting means is preferably greater than about 100° and less than... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6663382 | Safety lighter A safety lighter includes two wheels axles coaxially supported on two sides of a spark wheel respectively. Two driving wheels, each having a receiving cavity provided on an out side of said driving wheel, are supported by two driven bodies of the wheel ax... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6352429 | Safety lighter with rotary wheel hoods A safety lighter with improved rotary wheel hoods surrounding the striker wheel. The hoods must be urged downwardly and simultaneously rotated to engage and rotate the striker wheel. By varying the arrangement of the annular inner and outer surfaces of th... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6186774 | Modular butane lighter A lighter assembly especially suitable for burning butane gas as a fuel is provided in modular form which consists essentially of two unitary subassemblies which may be detachably mounted together to form the assembled lighter. The lighter assembly, which... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6099298 | Gas lighter with safety device This invention relates to the field of energy and is directed to a gas child-proof lighter, i.e. the lighter in which means for sparking neutralization are combined with a gas ignition mechanism. The gas lighter comprises a gas ignition device including a... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6099296 | Safety mechanism of lighter An improved safety mechanism of a lighter contains an idle wheel with coarse grains, pivoted on two ratchet arms on the top end face of the lighter; a seat right below the idle wheel; a tension spring received within the seat and a flint bar provided betw... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6036478 | Fire-lighting device A fire-lighting device includes a jetting nozzle for jetting fuel gas, a gas passage for fuel gas to be burned extending from a fuel tank to the jetting nozzle, and a sintered filter made of sintered powder inserted in the gas passage upstream of a small-... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5971748 | Gas safety lighter comprising a pyrophoric flint and spark wheel ignition system The invention relates to a spark wheel type gas lighter comprising a lighter body, a reservoir, a valve permitting gas to leave the reservoir, an ignition system comprising a pyrophoric flint co-operating with a spark wheel and a spring maintaining the fl... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5829963 | Gas lighter with safety device A gas lighter having a safety device includes a lighter body that includes a fuel emission portion for emitting fuel from a fuel well, a piezoelectric unit having an ignition pushbutton and a shoulder portion, and a cutaway portion on a top part of the bo... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5823765 | Lighter having a non-rotating flint An apparatus is disclosed for providing more uniform lighter spark wheel actuation. Uniform actuation is facilitated in the apparatus according to the invention by reducing the resistance encountered from the rotation of the flint on its axis due to the s... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5769625 | Safety lighter with smooth striker wheel edges A safety lighter with an improved striker wheel and striker wheel mounting frame. The lighter has an igniter having a striker wheel which rotates about an axis in response to force applied to the wheel by a user's finger. The annular recessed center porti... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5743725 | Safety lighter A child resistant safety lighter is provided which includes a detent on the spark wheel of the lighter which inhibits rotation of the spark wheel in its operative direction when the spark wheel is in a first locked or inoperative position. The spark wheel... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5547370 | Safety striker wheel assembly for gas lighters A striker wheel assembly mounting structure including a wheel axle mounted between two upright supports at the top of a butane wheel, two driving wheels mounted around the wheel axle between the upright supports, and a striker wheel fixedly mounted around... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5545092 | Special effects spark generating system A system and method for generating special effects showers of sparks for use in theme park shows and rides. A flint rod is biased with fluid pressure against a cutting wheel of this system. When a clutch is actuated for a brief predetermined time period, ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5509799 | Flint replaceable lighter The invention is a flint replaceable lighter. In a preferred embodiment the invented lighter includes a lighter body including means for containing fuel. Fitted upon it is a striker wheel assembly including a striker wheel, a striker wheel support superst... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5490773 | Pocket lighter A pocket lighter in which the spark wheel which may produce sparks on rotating in a first direction and rubbing on the pyrophoric stone, apart from being rotatable, is movable between a first position in which it is blocked from rotating in the first dire... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5407346 | Push type safety lock lighter A safety lighter is disclosed. The lighter comprises a lighter body, a nozzle, a mounting frame disposed on the lighter body, and an actuating lever which is pivotally mounted on the mounting frame. The front end of the lever grips the nozzle and moves it... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5350294 | Lighter When a lighter of the present invention is not in use, push-down means is kept positioned on one end side of lift-up means and has a lower end abutting against a lighter body to set a locked state to restrict a push-down action. As the push-down means is ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5205729 | Safety mechanism for a lighter A safety mechanism for a lighter which mechanism makes it difficult for infants or children to create a fire with the lighter. The safety mechanism is simple in construction, reliable and acceptable for the proper user of the lighter. The safety mechanism... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5197870 | Safety lighter A gas lighter which operates by depressing an operating lever to lift a gas pipe thereby opening a gas release valve while a spark is generated by simultaneous rotation of a striker wheel in engagement with a flint has a safety mechanism for ensuring that... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5186618 | Gas lighter with safety device A gas lighter with a safety device has a lock member which is able to linearly move between a locking position where it prevents depression of a valve lever and a releasing position where it allows depression of the valve lever and is urged to the locking... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5184948 | Safety mechanism for a lighter A safety mechanism for a lighter which mechanism makes it difficult for infants or children to create a fire with the lighter. The safety mechanism is simple in construction, reliable and acceptable for the proper user of the lighter. The safety mechanism... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5165885 | Safety mechanism for a lighter A safety mechanism for a lighter which mechanism makes it difficult for infants or children to create a fire with the lighter. The safety mechanism is simple in construction, reliable and acceptable for the proper user of the lighter. The safety mechanism... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5129819 | Cigarette lighter A cigarette lighter comprises a housing bounding an inner space, and an actuating unit accommodated in the space and including a push-button, a lever mechanism connected with the push-button, a strike flint, a striking wheel connected with the lever mecha... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5092763 | Non-refillable gas lighter A non-refillable gas lighter includes a member made of dry powdered metal and having a gas throughput according to the limited height of flame inserted in the flow route of the gas in the burner body upstream of the burner mouth which can be closed by a v... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5090893 | Childproof gas lighter This lighter is of the type having on its housing in which is provided a reservoir containing the gas in liquid form a head comprising in addition to the burner valve (10) connected with the reservoir via a pressure reducer an igniting mechanism comprisin... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5020990 | Gas fuel lighter An improved lighter comprising a resiliently based operating member 71 drivingly coupled to a striker wheel 51 and a control plate 40 for a gas valve 30. The operating member causes the striker wheel to turn against a flint 61 and also presses the control... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4981130 | Ignition system and self-heating container An ignition system comprising a metal plate having a pyrogen on one side thereof, a turning shaft journalled by the plate, and a sparking wheel secured to the shaft. A flint is supported by the plate and pressed against the wheel. An opening is formed in ... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4929174 | Gas lighter with spark ignition A lighter including a machine housing, a nozzle assembly, an adjusting assembly, a grinding assembly and a filling assembly is provided to provide a flame having an inner flame and an outer flame and uneasy to be blown out. A burning tube is provided to m... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4459096 | Igniter An igniter assembly is disclosed for detachable mounting on and use with a standard gas torch. The subject igniter can be actuated from a point remote from the torch nozzle to cause a shower of sparks above and across the torch nozzle to effect ignition o... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4457697 | Throwaway type gas lighter A throwaway type gas lighter is disclosed which comprises a windbreak, a fuel tank filled with a liquefied fuel gas, a spark generating mechanism including a rasp wheel and a spring-biased flint, fuel supplying means including a fuel injection pipe for su... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4430060 | Gas lighter A lighter has a housing formed with a flame opening, a fuel supply for feeding fuel to a point at which a flame is formed in the opening, a friction wheel mounted on the housing, and a first guide formed in the housing along a radius of the wheel, a flint... | 02/07/1984 |
