Patent ID: 7637736

Claim:
A lighter construction comprising: a housing that contains a fluid reservoir; a nozzle member; a fuel line; a valve disposed in the housing and that selectively couples the fluid reservoir, via the fuel line, to the nozzle member; an actuation button on said housing at a top wall of the housing; said nozzle member including a nozzle head; a piezoelectric device disposed in the housing and for generating a spark at the nozzle head; an ignition wire that is also disposed in the housing and that connects the piezoelectric device to the nozzle head; said actuation button operating said piezoelectric device and valve to provide a flame at the nozzle head; a flexible nozzle tube extendable from said housing and supporting at its distal end said nozzle head; an elongated hollow guide tube fixedly supported in the housing and for receiving and guiding therein the flexible nozzle tube; said elongated hollow guide tube having an internal hollow passage for slidably receiving and guiding the flexible nozzle tube as the flexible nozzle tube transitions between nested and extended positions; an elongated slot in the hollow guide tube for accommodating the ignition wire and the fuel line; said flexible nozzle tube having a nested position in which the flexible nozzle tube is disposed within said elongated internal hollow passage of said guide tube and an extended position in which the flexible nozzle tube extends from said housing through a top wall housing port and enabling said flexible nozzle tube, in the extended position, to be bent in multiple directions for directing said nozzle head; wherein the fuel line extends through the flexible nozzle tube from the reservoir to the nozzle head and the ignition wire also that extends through the flexible nozzle tube from the piezoelectric device to a location adjacent to the nozzle head to initiate a flame.