Patent ID: 6929466

Claim:
An elevated candle lighter, comprising: (a) a main body that includes a source of combustible fuel and wherein said combustible fuel includes butane, and means for controlling the release of said fuel from said main body, and (b) extensible conduit means adapted for directing a flow of said combustible fuel, said extensible conduit means attached to said main body; and wherein said extensible conduit means includes a first section of conduit rigidly attached to said main body and a second section of conduit that is adapted to cooperate with said first section of conduit sufficient to extend from a first retracted position into a second extended position and wherein said overall length of said extensible conduit means is greater in said second extended position than in said first retracted position and wherein said second section of conduit is adapted to telescope with respect to said first section of conduit from said first retracted position into said second extended position and wherein said combustible fuel is adapted to flow from said main body and through all of said extensible conduit; and including means for igniting said combustible fuel, said means for igniting attached to said lighter; and wherein said means for igniting said combustible fuel includes means for igniting said combustible fuel at a distal end of said extensible conduit means; and including a snuffer attached to said lighter and wherein said snuffer is attached to said main body at an end of said main body that is disposed distally away from said extensible means, and wherein said snuffer is adapted to pivot intermediate a first position in which a longitudinal axis of said snuffer is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said main body into a second position in which said longitudinal axis of said snuffer is parallel to said longitudinal axis of said main body.