Improvements in Lighters for Cigars, Cigarettes and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1900-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lighters for Cigars, Cigarettes and the like.
We, LEOPOLD ERNEST BUTCHER, of 60, Gresham Street, in the City of London,
Cigar Merchant, and MARSHALL GEORGE WOOD, of 21, St James' Street, Brighton,
in the County of Sussex, Novelist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in lighters for cigars, cigarettes and
the like
According to the invention we construct a lighter of a case having a wheel
or disc of emery or other similar suitable material and in connection with the
said wheel we furnish means whereby it can be rotated. A steel strip is held
against the periphery of the wheel or disc, preferably by means of a spring, so
that when the disc is rotated the friction of its periphery against the steel strip
generates sparks These sparks are directed against tinder contained in the
case, which tinder is thereby ignited in the usual manner and can be utilized
for lighting pipes, cigars and cigarettes
In practice the case 18 advantageously made similar to a watch case so that it
can be conveniently carried in the waistcoat pocket. Furthermore means can
be provided whereby the action of rotating the wheel also opens the case A
damping plate 18 sometimes used for extinguishing the tinder; this plate can
form the cover to the mechanism or can be an independent plate Or the case
can be made to close hermetically so that no extinguishing plate is necessary.
Dated the 6th day of November 1899
G F. REDFERN & Co,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants
Improvements in Lighters for Cigars, Oigarettes and the like.
We, LEOPOLD ERNEST BUTCHER of 60, Gresham Street, in the City of London,
Cigar Merchant, and MARSHALL GEORGE WOOD, of 21, St James' Street, Brighton,
in the County of Sussex, Novelist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particulafly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement
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This invention relates to improvements in lighters for cigars, cigarettes and
the like and to that class of such lighters wherein a steel plate or strip is held
against the periphery of a wheel or disc of emery or like material in such a
manner that when the disc is rotated sparks are generated and directed against
tinder which is thereby ignited

page_text: According to this invention we make a lighter enclosed in a case similar to a
watch case the spark generating devices being arranged in one part of the case
whilst the tinder is aanged in the other part of the said case.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a vertical section of our improved igniter drawn to an exaggerated
scale; and
Figure 2 18 a sectional plan of the same
a, are the two parts of the case which are hinged together at one side and
adapted to spring one over the other in order to hold them closed together or
to be connected by means of a spring catch
c is a cylindrical casing which is inserted into the part a of the case and
provided internally with two cross bars d, d forming a frame in which the
emery wheel e and the gear wheels f, f, through which motion is imparted to
the said emery wheel, are mounted One of these wheels 18 connected by a
shaft with a ring or handle h, which also serves as the ring by means of which
the lighter can be attached to a watch chain or the like, and the rotation of
which produces the desired 1otation of the emery wheel 218 the steel plate
which is carried, and pressed against the emery wheel e, by a spring, fixed to a
lug on the casing c
7 indicates the tinder which is placed in the part 6 of the outer case and
against which the sparks are directed as indicated by the arrows in Figure 1
At the top of the cylindrical case c, which is represented as being partly broken
away in Figure 2. 18 an opening m through which the sparks will be projected
and adjacent to the said opening is a lid n which can be turned to cover the
said opening to obviate the liability of pieces of tinder, which may become
detached, from falling through the said opening when the lighter 18 shut up
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our sand
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is. -
1 In a lighter for cigars, cigarettes and the like, the combination with a box
containing the spark-generating devices, of a cover lined with and carrying tinder
on its under sui face, all substantially as described
2 lighter for cigars, cigarettes and the like, comprising a case and its
cover hinged together, such cover being surface-lined with tinder, an emery
wheel, a handle and means for transmitting motion of the handle to the said
emer wheel to produce sparks, all substantially as described
3 The manufacture and use of the improved lighter for eigais, cigarettes and
the like here before described and illustrated in the accompanying diawing
Dated the 24th day of July 1900
G F REDFERN & Co,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants