US2517644A - Pocket lighter - Google Patents

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Aug. 8, 1950 R. R. ERATICO POCKET LIGHTER Filed June 12, 1948 FIG. 2.

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' INVENTOR. ROSE R. ERATICO ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 8, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,517,644 PooKE'r LIGHTER Rose Rita Eratico, Long Island City, N. Y. Application June 12, 1948, Serial No. 32,567

face of the casing and the inner surface of the cap.

A further object of the present invention is to improve on the construction of pocket lighters as now ordinarily made.

With the above and other objects of the invention in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of various elements and parts, as set forth in the claim hereof, certain embodiments of the same being described in the specification and being illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a pocket lighter according to the invention,

Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l, i

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a detail of the pocket lighter, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevational view of a different embodiment of the upper portion of the casing of a pocket lighter according to the invention, partly in section.

Referring now to Figs. 1 to 3, l generally indicates a barrel of a pocket lighter according to the invention. Said barrel Ill closed at its upper end 12 and open at its lower end 14 has two openings l6 and H3 in its top wall l2.

A hollow endless wick carrier, for instance a tubular eyelet 20 having a flanged lower end 22 is inserted into the opening l6. Said tubular eyelet 20 may be connected to the wall of the barrel ill in any suitable manner, for example by soldering. The main body of the tubular eyelet 2|] projects outwardly from the top of the barrel l0, so that its open upper end 24 is at a distance from the top surface of said barrel.

One end of a wick 26 arranged within the barrel If! passes through said tubular eyelet 2d and projects somewhat from the upper end 24 thereof.

An igniting device 28 of customary construction attached to the wall of the barrel ID at 30 passes through the opening 18 of the barrel adjacent to the tubular eyelet 20 holding the end of the wick 26.

Fuel absorbing material 32, such as cotton, is placed into the interior of the barrel l0.

The barrel I 0 has annular bulge 34, which serves as a stop for an upper cap 36 slidably fitting around the upper closed end of the barrel l0 and for a lower cap 38 slidably fitting around the lower open end of said barrel 10. Both caps 36 and 38 fit snugly on the barrel [0 and may be removed, if desired. The upper cap 36 covers the top l2 of the barrel H) with the tubular eyelet 20, wick 26 and igniting device 28 projecting therefrom. The lower cap 38 containing fuel absorbing material 40 covers the lower open end of said barrel [0.

As will be readily understood, the tubular eyelet 20 holds the projecting end of the wick at a distance from the top l2 of the barrel l0 and at a distance from the inner surface of the upper cap 36. Therefore, when-after use of the pocket lighter-the upper cap 36 is again engaged with the upper end of the barrel ill, the lower edge of the cap cannot catch the end of the wick and cannot jam same between the outer surface of the barrel ill and the inner surface of the cap 36. Thus, the upper cap 36 can be engaged with the barrel l0 without difficulties and will smoothly slide along the barrel during the engaging operation. Furthermore, as the wick 26 cannot be jammed between the barrel l0 and the cap 36, it cannot occur that the cap 36 is tightly held on the barrel [0 and the lower cap 38 becomes disengaged from the barrel l0 instead of the upper cap 36, when the user of the pocket lighter wishes to open the lighter for use.

The tubular projection 20 receiving the end of the wick must not necessarily be made and connected with the barrel IU of the lighter in the manner shown in Figs. 1 to 3. According to Fig. 4, for example, the tubular projection I20 receiving the wick 26 is drawn out of the material of the barrel III] of the pocket lighter, so that it is integral with the body of said barrel.

I have described preferred embodiments of my invention, but it is understood that this disclosure is for the purpose of illustration and that various omissions or changes in shape, proportion and arrangement of parts, as well as the substitution of equivalent elements for those, herein shown and described, may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention set forth in the appended claim.

What I claim is:

In a pocket lighter, in combination, a hollow tubular casing adapted to carry in its interior 3 fuel absorbing material and including a tubular wall and an end wall joined thereto and having an opening in said end wall surrounded by a portion thereof, said portion including a tapered depression on the interior of said casing, a hol- 10w tubular wick carrier adapted to fit in and to be inserted from the casing interior into said opening to project with one end from the exterior of said wall, said Wick carrier having near the opposite end a flange flaring outwardly in correspondence to the taper of said portion and arranged to be disposed in abutment on the casing interior with said end wall portion for restraining movement of said carrier outwardly of said casing, an ignition mechanism carried by said casing and projecting adjacent said carrier from said end wall, a closure cap adapted to 4 ing of a size large enough to space the body of the wick carrier from the exterior of said tubular wall for maintaining said wick spaced from said tubular wall exterior sufficiently to be clear oil the closure path of said cap ROSE RITA ERATICO.

REFERENCES CITED The following. references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,060,150 Adamian et a1. Apr. 29, 1913 1,820,131 Fischer Aug. 25, '1931 2,457,053 Lewis Dec. 21, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 58,882 Austria Apr. 25, 1913 67,624 Austria Jan. 25, 1915 1501329 Austria Aug. '10, 1937

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