US1585028A - Cigar lighter - Google Patents

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Patented May 18, 1925.

UMED STATES 1,585,028 PATENT orrica;

SAMUEL E. GUINN, F JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOB TO 8. E. GUINN MANU- FACTURING CO., 013 CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CIGAR LIGHTER.

Application filed June 155, i923. Serial No. 645,670.

This invention relates to a cigar lighter designed primarily to provide a portable structure adapted to be placed on a show case or other support, or to form a part of the well known portable cigar stand adapted for individual or home use.

1 The lighter of the present invention is designed particularly for use of volatile fuel, delivered to the ignition point by means of a wick, and ignited by a pyrophoric means actuated through the manipulation of the igniter casing, which casing is provided in part to act as a snufi'er for the flame when closed and to trap a portion of the volatile vapor from the fuel to be released at a subsequent ignition to insure the lighting opera-. tion.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the improved lighter.

Fig.2 is a vertical section of the same.

Fig. 8 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a broken perspective view ofthe lighter, the igniter casing being shown open.

The improved lighter com rises a casing 1 serving as a receptable for t e fuel, as alcohol or the like, a wick tube 2 extending upwardly from the casing and in open communication therewith for the passage of a wick 3.

.An i iter casing is mounted above the wick tu e 2, comprising a fixed section 4 of hollow formation, having a depending threaded nipple 5 adapted to bescrewed into the upper end of the wick tube 2 for sup porting the igniter casing. The casing section 4 is provided with a wick guide 6 ter-' minating in a conical end portion 7 for cooperatlon with the'snuiler as hereinafter explained. The 'igniter casing also includes a movable section 8 having depending ears 9 to permit hingedly connecting said movable section to the fixed section through atransverse rod 10, on which within thecasing is arranged a spring 11 with its free end engaging beneath the movable section 8 and serving to return the latter to closed position.

The movable section 8 is interiorly provided with a depending tube 12, adapted when the section is closed, to cover the ex-- posed portion of the wick 3 and also hear more or less snugly on the conical surface of the guide terminal 7', to form a sealto prevent the vapor from the fuel escaping and trapping the vapor within the tube'12 for a purpose whlch will presentlyappear.

Rotatably mounted in the forward. portion of the fixed section 4 of the igniter casing is a shaft 13, on which is secured a disc 14 preferably of metal having a tangential arm 15, which extends forwardly through a slot 16 formed in the forward wall of the movable section 8 of the igniter casin and pro ec ts beyond said igniter casing, as own. The disc 14 is provided with a lateral pin 17 connected by a s ring 18 to the fixed section of the casing, W ereby to maintain the disc 14- normally in an inoperative position, that is, with the arm 15 resting upon the upper edge of the forward wall of the fixed sectio'n of. the igniter casing, as clearly shown in Fig, 2.

To assist in arresting the arm 15 at all times in the same position, that is, preventing wear under the impact of the arm, the forward wall of the section 4 of the case, at the point of engagement therewith of the arm 15, is provided with an integral pillow block i", the upper end of which receives a hardened bearing pin 15', to receive the blow of the arm in the operation described.

The forward wall of the movable section 8 s provided with an operating hook 19, havmg a hook terminal 20 to normally underlie as the projecting portion of the arm 15, this hook having a lateral bar at the up er end pivotally connected at one end 21, to t e movable section 8, the opposite end of the bar being free and normally resting upon a pin 22 projecting from the forward wall of the section 8, as shown more articularly in Fig. l

1. Section8 is provid with an operating handle 23 whereby said section may be swung on its pivot 10 against the tension of spring 11. Y The pyrophoric igniter, here shown as of rod form, at 24', is slidably mounted in a tube 25 carried by the fixed section of the ignitcr casing and terminating at its upper end in line with and-below the shaft 13. The lower end of the tube depends below the fixed section 4 of the igniter casing, and is adapted to receive a rod 26 carried upon the upper end of the plunger 27 mounted in a bore 28 formed in a cylindrical Web cast with and within thefuel casin 1, the bore 28 being of course closed against the fuel portion of the casing. The plunger 27 is normally operated in the upward direction 1 9 U wire of U form to by a 'spring 29 held in the reduced lower end of bore 28 and bearing against the plunger 27, and is manually retracted at will through a handle section 30, preferably of rov'ide bearin width, which handle exten s throu h a s 0t 31 in the adjacent wall of the fue casing 1.

The operating member of the igniter is in the form of a serrated disc 32 fixed upon the shaft lit-immediately above the tube 25, so

that the pyrophoric material 24 is main-- tained in contactwith the peripheral edge of said disc 32 at all times by the actionof the spring 29.

Obviously through manipulation of the handle 23, til

action throu h the book 19 serves toengage and raise 't 1e arm 15, move the disc 14 against the tension of the sprin l8 and cor-' respondingly move the igniter Si act-ion continues until the hook end 20 rides oil the end of the arm 15, whereupon the :prin 18 operates to return the disc 14 and ere y the shaft 13 to normal position. In

' this movement of-the shaft, the igniter disc 32 is moved rapidly over the end of the p .rophoric material and the resultant spar i 'te the .fuel at the wick 3. After the use 0 the light, the handle is released, the spring "11 acts to return the movable section of the igniter casin ;to normal position, the hook 19 being aced by the end of the arm 15 andthen returned to 0 rative position below the arm, and the tu 12 acting to snuff or cut oi the flame from the wick.

The tube 12 additionally serves to retain fuel vapor and to permit this vapor to-escape adjacent the ignition point in the operation of the device, whereby the ignition of the wick is rendered more certainand the proper 0 ration insured through a single action of t pyrophoric material, thus avoiding the usual repetitions of the sparking action necessary to operate the usual igniter of this and thus saving the material.

- firough depressing the plunger 27 t h the medium of the handle 30, to with w the rod 26 from the tube 25, fresh pyrophoric material may be conveniently added without opening or disturbing an portion of the device other than that note The igniter as a. whole may be mounted upon a convenient base or desk or show case application,-or may form apart of -the usual 1 cigar storage and iggiting outfit designed for home use, or may i useful.

made a stationaryfi'xture at any place or places where it may be il "ii 11 f 1mm 1.; a cigar 'g ter a no an ig: niter casing arranged iibove the -fue casing, 11. wick extending from the fuel casing into the igniter casing, said igniter casing including a movable'section, a pyrophorio mae movable section 8 of the i niter casing is turned on its pivot, and this so 32. The

. ried by the igm terial tube .carried by the igniter casing,

means including a metal engaging member for causing a spark from said material, mechanism for setting said member for o eration and releasin it to operate in the openin of the move 1e section of the easin an a snufier tube carried by said-movab e section to serve as a va r storage member when the igniter casing 15 closed.

2. A cigar lighter having an igniter casing made up of hingedlyconnected sections,

jecting beyond the sections, and a book carried b one of the sections to normally enage t e projecting portion of the arm to ift saidarm throughout a determinate distance in the openin movement of the sections, said book being mounted to permit the hooked end thereof to pass said arm in thelclosing movement of the sections and to be operatively positioned beneath the arm by gravity.

3. A cigar lighter, comprising an igniter casing, havinga fixed section and a movable section, .a shaft mounted in the 'fixed section, an igniter discon the shaft, an op-" erating'arm carried b the shaft and pro j'ecting through and yond the casing, a gravity operated hook carried by the movable section of the casing to engage and move the arm for a rtion of the opening movement .of the casing the relation of the centers of movement of said arm and the movable section of the casing causing the hook to release the arm prior to a full .pyr'ophoric igniter means arranged in one g 0 said sections and'including an arm proopening movement of the casing section, au-

tomatic means to return the arm to normal position followin its release to thereby operate the igniter so, and a tubular element in the igniter casing and terminating ad acent the igniter disc to receive pyrophoric materia material in said tube and maintain endwise pressure thereon.

5. A. cigar lighter, comprisin a fuel casing, an gniter movab y mounted above the fuel casing, igniter means includmg a sparking disc arranged within and automatically set and then operated in the movement of said igniter casing, a wick extending from the fuel easing into the igniter casing, a pyrophoric material tube rated in the close carried by the igniter casing to receive pyrophoric material to cooperate with said igniter means, a bore formed in the fuel casin in line with'said material tube and against said casing, and a spring pressed manually o erable element mounted in said bore and includinga rod to normally seat in said tube. V

-6. A cigar lighter, comprising a fuel casing, an ignitercasing movably mountedabove the fuel. casing, igniter means arranged within and automatically operated in the movement of said i 'ter casing, a

el casing lIltO' wick extending from the the "igniter casing, a pyrophoricmaterial tube carried by the igniter casing to receive pyrophoric material to cooperate with said igniter means, a bore formed in the, fuel cas- '20 ing in line with said tube and closed against the fuel in'the casing, .the wall of the bore being slotted, a spring pressed plunger mounted in the bore, arodcarried by the plunger and adapted to seat in said tube to exert endwise pressure on the pyroph'oric' material, and. a manually operable member secured to the plunger and projecting.

- through and guided in said-slot,,for manually. withdrawing'the rod the tube for the replacement of the pyro'phoricma-- terial'.

7. A- cigar li hter, comprising a fuelcasing, a wick tu eprojecting therefrom, an

I igniter casing mountedupon the upper end of the wick tube and comprising a fixed section and a movable section, 'a wick guide in said fixed section formed with a sealing surface, a wick extending from the fuel' 'casing through the wick tube and guide,

spark producing meansin the-igniter casing automatically set and then operated in the opening of the movable section of such. casing, and-a tube-like member carried by the I movable section adapted to sealed through t ure.

engagementwith the sealing surface of the wick'guide, the tube-like, member being so mounted on the movable section that as said section-is opened to produce 'a spark the open end of the tube-like memberis turned toward the spark generating point of the spark producing means, whereby the vapors trapped in said tube-like member are brought immediately adjacent the sparking spark producin means in the igniter cas-' ing automatica a tube-like member carried by the movable section adapted tobe sealed through engagement with the'sealing sur face of the wick guide, the tube-like member being so mounted on the movable section that as said section is opened to produce a spark the open end of the tube-like member is turned toward the spark generating oint of the spark producing means, wherey the vapors trapped in said tube-like member are brought immediately adjacent the sparking point for initial flame produc-ition to ignite the wick, the free end of the tube-like member moving wholly beyond the plane 'of the flame from the wick when the movable section is open to permit uninterru ted access to such flame, I

n testimony whereof I aflix my signa-,r

SAMUEL GUINN.

J set and then operated" in v the'opemn of t e movable section of such casing, an

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