Combustion – Combined
Patent
1984-06-22
1986-02-11
Dority, Jr., Carroll B.
Combustion
Combined
81 355, 81 309, 7151, D27 38, D 8 34, B67B 700
Patent
active
045696535
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is an International phase application corresponding to the International application No. PCT/AT83/00032 filed Oct. 31, 1983 and based, in turn, on German International applications of Nov. 2, 1982, Dec. 6, 1982 and Jan. 28, 1983 and upon an Austrian application of Aug. 8, 1983.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a lighter, more particularly a disposable lighter.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Lighters are known in the widest variety of designs. So-called disposable lighters usually consist of an elliptical, rectangular or circular housing at the top of which is located the burner head with an actuating part consisting of a fuel-release lever and an igniting friction wheel. These mass-produced, and therefore inexpensive, disposable lighters have attained considerable success on the market, and almost everybody carries such a lighter.
Also known is a very wide variety of openers for bottles with crown-corks or bottle caps. Thus the user of a lighter who also wishes to keep a bottle-opener handy must always carry two separate articles with him; these take up a relatively large amount of space and it is always possible to mislay one article or the other.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
It is the purpose of the invention to provide a lighter which may also be used to open bottles having crown-corks.
According to the invention, this purpose is achieved by means of an opener for bottles with crown-corks which is connected to a lighter. In this way, a single article provides a flame and opens the crown-cork of a bottle. The combination of a lighter and a bottle-opener produces a very handy unit which takes up little space. Furthermore, the danger of mislaying the combined unit is lessened since, when the user thinks of taking the lighter with him, the bottle-opener goes along too, and vice-versa. In this way, the lighter and bottle-opener are always at hand.
According to one configuration of the invention, the lighter housing has an indentation bounded on one side by a bent tongue and, on the other side, by a lever surface in the form of an extension of the relevant edge of the indentation. This arrangement of the bottle-opener directly in the lighter housing produces an extremely compact unit with no projections, thus causing less wear in the pockets of clothing.
The design described hereinbefore, however, requires substantial changes in the housings of known lighters. According to another feature of the invention, therefore, a lighter is provided which can be produced quite simply and almost without any change in the existing shape of the housing. In one embodiment, this is made possible by arranging the bottle-opener in the vicinity of the fuel-release lever of the lighter. In this case, the said bottle-opener is secured to the lighter-housing immediately below the open-position of the said fuel-release lever.
Nor is any change required in the conventional lighter-housing if, according to another characteristic of the invention, the bottle-opener is arranged upon a sleeve adapted to be slipped onto the lighter. In this case, the bottle-opener is preferably held, in the non-operative position, in or on the lighter-sleeve, whence it can be folded or slid into the operative position. According to one possible design, the bottle-opener is in the form of a S-shaped lever adapted to slide longitudinally between the slip-on sleeve and the lighter-housing, one end of the said lever carrying a bent tongue for opening the crown-cork, while the other end carries a bent stop which limits the path of travel of the said lever.
In order to keep the stresses on the lighter housing during the opening of a bottle as low as possible, provision is made, according to a preferred example of embodiment of the invention, to arrange on the lighter, at a distance from the hook for engaging the crown-cork, a projection designed to bear upon the said cork. The combination, according to the invention, of a hook and a corresponding projection, makes it possible to use the
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Becker Franz J.
Racek Alfred
Dority Jr. Carroll B.
Dubno Herbert
Ross Karl F.
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