Patent ID: 6875011

Claim:
A flint holder for lighters that have a conventional lighter body, a conventional flint screw on the bottom of the lighter body, and a conventional space between the bottom of the lighter body and a conventional removable outer cover, the flint holder comprising: a rectangular holding part in the form of a thin plate molded out of soft resin that is sized to be received in the conventional space between the bottom of the conventional lighter body and the conventional removable outer cover and having a plurality of parallel slots formed therethrough for holding columnar flints at regular intervals in such a manner that the flints can be detached from the slots; a fitting part having a fitting hole formed therethrough that is configured to be engaged on the conventional flint screw on the bottom of the lighter body; and a hinge part in the form of a relatively-wide groove between the holding and fitting parts that enables the flint holder to bend away from the bottom of the conventional lighter body, across the width of the flint holder.