Patent ID: 6565353
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: F23Q

Abstract:
A lighter, comprising:a supporting frame comprising: a casing having a liquefied gas chamber and a pusher cavity, a pair of supporting walls protruded on opposite sides of a ceiling of said casing, a flint housing provided on said ceiling of said casing between said two supporting walls, a gas lever pivotally supported between said two supporting walls, and a gas emitting nozzle appearing from said ceiling of said casing and communicating with said liquefied gas chamber which is actuated by said gas lever for releasing gas; an ignition system, comprising: a flint supported by a flint-spring wherein said flint and said flint-spring are received in said flint housing, a striker wheel having a circumferential coarse striking surface and being positioned right above said flint and rotatably supported between said two supporting walls, at least a driving wheel coaxially attached to a side of said striker wheel, wherein said driving wheel has a plurality of gear teeth spacedly provided on an outer circumferential surface thereof and a diameter larger than a diameter of the striker wheel, a pusher button slidably disposed in said pusher cavity in a vertically movable manner, at least a trigger protrusion outwardly protruded from a front wall of said pusher button, wherein said trigger protrusion has at least an engaging tooth provided on an front end thereof and adapted for slidably engaging said the gear teeth of said driving wheel to drive said striker wheel to rotate, and a resilient element normally retaining and urging said pusher button in an upper normal position wherein said resilient element has two ends biasing against said pusher button and said ceiling of said casing; and a guiding means, which is adapted for ensuring said spark stroked between said striker wheel and said flint, comprising an elastic blocking arm integrally and downwardly extended from a rear wall of said pusher button for normally biasing against a top edge of an outer wall of said casing, wherein said blocking arm is adapted for slidably moving away from said top edge of said outer wall of said casing when said pusher button is depressed downward, so as to create an instantaneous motion of said striker wheel.