Patent ID: 7625203
Filing Date: 2009-12-01
Classification: F23Q

Abstract:
1. A folding lighter that is a folding lighter comprising a body that houses a fuel tank and a piezoelectric unit, and possesses at the side surface an operating component exposed to the outside for operating with approximate contemporaneousness said piezoelectric unit and a fuel supply valve that controls supply of fuel from said fuel tank, and a swingarm connected to one end of said body, and housing a flame emission nozzle in the vicinity of the opposite end, and opening and closing freely between a housing position being folded against said side surface of said body and a utilizing position being opened at 90 degrees or more from said body, and housing in said body and said swingarm a flexible fuel conduit connected at one end to said fuel tank and connected at the opposite end to said flame emission nozzle, and characterized by further possessing a safety mechanism for preventing folding of said swingarm when a foreign object such as a finger interposes between said swingarm and said operating component at time when said swingarm is being folded to said housing position, with said safety mechanism possessing a swing preventer axially supported by a first axle socket within said body and that rotates corresponding to operation of said operating component, and with said swing preventer possessing a first arm projected to a position that intervenes within the movement range of said operating component to be depressed by a pressing inward operation of said operating component, and possesses on the side opposite of said first axle socket a second arm that prevents said swingarm from being folded as a portion of said swingarm shifts within a range for shifting in response to folding movement of the swingarm, at a time when the first arm is pressed by the pressing inward operation of said operating component.