Patent ID: 7497684
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: F23Q

Abstract:
1. A combination wick cutter and lighter comprising: a handle that functions as the body of the combination wick cutter and lighter; a tube, with a longitudinal axis and an opening in a tube end for receiving a wick, the tube extending from the handle; a cutter fixed in the tube at the tube end extending across the tube transversely leaving the opening in the tube end; wherein the wick may be received into the opening in the cutter end as the tube is moved toward the wick along the tube axis with the tube positioned with its axis parallel to an upstanding wick; a blade rod within the tube parallel to and offset from the tube axis, the blade rod with blade rod first and second ends and a blade on the blade rod second end alongside the cutter at the tube end, the blade extending radially from the blade rod second end across the opening at the tube end, wherein the blade moves across the opening in a scissor action with the cutter when the blade rod is rotated thereby cutting the wick in the tube opening; a fuel line between the tube end and a fuel reservoir; an igniter that ignites fuel released from the fuel line at the tube end; an actuator functionally connected to the blade rod such that as the actuator moves from a rest position to a second position the blade rod rotates moving the blade across the opening and as the actuator moves to a third position fuel is released from the fuel line and the igniter ignites the fuel when the actuator is at the third position, release of fuel stopping when the actuator moves away from its third position.