Patent · US Expired

Safety disposable lighter

US5971749A · kind A · utility

16Cited by
3References
10Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateNov 25, 1998
Grant dateOct 26, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 25, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF23Q2/46
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A safety disposable lighter includes an ignition means which includes a striker wheel has an axial polygonal driven hole provided therethrough, a wheel axle rotatably mounting between two supporting walls of a supporting frame and having an enlarged central engaging disc fittedly mounted at a center position of the driven hole of the striker wheel, and two driving wheels each having a polygonal driving disc integrally and coaxially protruded at an inner side thereof. Each of the driving wheels has an axial hole having a diameter larger than that of the wheel axle. Between the two supporting walls, the two driving wheels are rotatably mounted around two ends of the wheel axle respectively and the two driving discs are respectively inserted into two end portions of the driven hole, wherein each of the driving wheels has a diameter larger than a diameter of the striker wheel, and the polygonal driving disc of each driving wheel has a size smaller than the polygonal driven hole, so that the two driving wheels can normally free to rotate about the wheel axle unless a relatively strong depressing force is applied by an adult's finger to the two driving wheels to retain the two polygonal …

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