Improvements in Cigar Lighters and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigar Lighters and the like.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18, Buckingham
Street, Strand, London, W.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Henry Irving Stockwell,
Salesman, of 8 Macon Street, and Albert Richard Weisz, Manufacturer, of
789 Bushwick Avenue, both in Brooklyn, State of New York, United States of
America, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in lighters suitable for igniting such
articles as cigars, cigarettes and the like and by this invention the lighter made
compact and safe as also simple and reliable in operation and the invention resides
in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specification and
claim and illustrated in the annexed drawing in which-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the lighter with its lid closed.
Figure 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.
Figure 3 is a section along a Fig. 1.
Figure 4 is a view like Fig. 1 the cover being removed and the lid opened.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of a modification.
Figure 6 is a section along y y Fig. 5.
The lighter comprises a box or case 1 having an open side closable by cover 2
which can be removably secured as by the key hole slot 3 engaging grooved
stud 4 and by eye or perforation 5 engaging lug or lip 6. The top 7 partly open
or cut away can be closed by lid 8 which in opening and shutting swings about
stud or shaft 9. This lid 8 has an extinguishing face or damper 10 which when
the lid is closed is in damping position to extinguish the light at the igniting end 11
of the fuse 11, 12. A fluted wheel 13 can be rotated to feed the fuse.
The fuse is guided between wheel 13 and the frame plates 14 forming a bearing
for a train of gears 15 which communicates speeded rotation from ratchet or gear
wheel 16 to the friction or emery disc 17. This ratchet 16 rotates on stud or axle 9
about which lid 8 opens and shuts. A pawl 18 jointed or pivoted at 19 to said
lid 8 engages and rotates the ratchet 16 as the lid opens, but glides or returns idly
over the ratchet when the lid closes. A spring 20 may be applied to insure contact
of the pawl with the ratchet.
Jointed or pivoted to the case at 21 is an arm 22 carrying a friction face or
anvil 23 such as a piece of steel. A spring 24 insures contact of face 23 with
friction disc 17. The opening of the lid 8 rotates the disc 17 in the direction of
the arrow on the disc in Fig. 4 so as to generate and throw sparks against the
fuse or igniting end 11.
The device can of course be modified without departing from the invention. In
Fig. 5 in place of a pivot 21 a friction arm or steel 22' is shown provided with
lugs 21 adapted to sit or be fastened in recesses or seats in the extension 25 of
frame plate 14, said extension having an oblique or inclined face 26 upon which
the steel 22 while being inserted, can have its fixed end or attaching parts 21'
slipped until the parts 21¹ reach the top of the extension 25, when the fixed end
of the spring drops into the seats or depressions for said parts 21' at the fixed end
of the spring. A spring 24' insures contact of the steel 22 with disc 17. By
securing this spring 24' to the top 7, such spring is secure against loss. When

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worn the steel 22¹ can be readily removed from its seat and a fresh steel
inserted.
The frame plates 14 being located at one end portion of case 1 a space or housing
is left free in the case for containing the supply portion 12 of the fuse 11, 12.
Should the ignition at fuse end 11 not be extinguished on the closing of the lid 8
and the fuse continue burning, such burning fuse being contained in case 1 will
not be apt to do damage as for example to clothing when the case should be in a
pocket. The case 1 is of course practically made or shaped of metal.
When the lid is closed the fuse part 11 being enclosed between the damper 10,
the front or edge of frame plate 14, and the contiguous parts of case 1 with cover 2,
will be promptly and effectively extinguished.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. A lighter provided with an emery or friction disc, driving mechanism
substantially as described for the disc, frame plates for supporting the driving
mechanism and disc, and a friction steel made to contact with the disc, said frame
plates having an oblique faced seat portion for removably supporting the steel, and
a spring for holding the steel to its seat substantially as described.
2. A lighter provided with a friction dise and having a lid made to actuate said
disc, said lid being provided with an extinguishing face or damper extended from
-or in advance of the lid to contact with the source of light or flame to extinguish
the latter on the closing of the lid, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of April 1897