US1066405A - Cerium-iron automatic lighter. - Google Patents

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S. GOLDSTEIN.

GEBIUM IRON AUTOMATIC LIGHTER.

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1,066,405. Patented July 1, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Patented July 1, 1913.

Application med January 16, 1812. Serial No. 83,462.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGMUND Gonosrnm, a subject of the King of Bavaria, German Empire, residin at Nuremberg, Bavaria,

' Germany, have mvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cerium-Iron Automatic Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a ceriumiron automatic lighter which is arranged in such a manner that it can be easily contained within a small space.

The cerium iron lighters heretofore known are either provided with screwthreaded openings through which the benzene may-be filled for saturating the wick, or the benzene is poured directly into the vessel open atone end. Besides the fact that a lighter with a screw-threaded opening is unfitted for a special outward configuration, it is a very tedious and difiicult matter to pour the benzene into this small opening on account of the air still contained within the benzenetank; the benzene will be frequently spilled and often also the tank will be overchar ed, whereas it is only necessary for the wic to be fully saturated. Sometimes the screwplug will open when the lighter is being carried in the pocket and the benzene will run out. When with the other type the ben- "zene is poured directly into the tank, the

unavoidable consequence will be that when the packing is insuflicient, the benzene will leak out into the pocket or will rapidly evaporate.

According to the present invention the li hter has a socket containing a receiver with a wick-holder and a grooved spring arm, said receiver containing cotton, wool or some other material capable of absorbing benzene, and being open at one end. The absorbent material in the socket is then saturated with benzene by dipping its open 'end in the benzene.

The accompanying illustration exemplifies a constructional form of the lighter.

In this drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, Fig. 2 is a side-elevation, with the cap removed, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line AB in Fi 1,.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawing.

A socket a having an oval section, which 1s open at one end and closed by a bottom 6 at the other end, carries on its outside a sleeve 0 made in a manner resembling a cigarette. Within this socket is arranged the receiver d, which is filled with cotton, wool or the like absorbent material. The receiver d is closed at one'end by a wall and is open at the other end. To this receiver are fitted the small tube 7 for receiving the wick and the gutter-shaped spring-arm it. On the open end of the socket a is detachably fitted an oval cap 2' corresponding with the cigarette-like socket, and in this cap the holder is for the cerium-iron igniter Z is mounted. When assembled the case with the sleeve and the cap has the appearance of a cigarette. The cerium-iron holder It has a position between the wick g and the spring-armh at such a height that the cerium-iron igniter, which is held at one end only in the holder in, is op osite to the arm h. For producing the spar the ca 2' is removed and the cerium-iron-igniter zis rubbed under pressure along the sharp edge of the gutter-shaped spring-arm h projecting from the case'a. The spark which will be caused thereby will ignite the wick g satmated with benzene.

When the benzene is to be replenished, the cap a is removed and the receiver d is with-. drawn by the tube 1 and the arm h from the socket a and then dippedinto benzene.

The benzene will penetrate through the open end of the receiver d and saturate the wick q. The receiver is thereupon again introopposite end of the receiver, a grooved as my invention,-I havesigned my name in spring-arm also connected with the receiver, presence of two subscribing,witnesses..

said wick-tube and spring-arm projecting beyond the open end of the socket, and a M' G L E I detachable cap for said socket havinga fixed Witnesses:

ceriumI=iron igniter. 1 MAX SCHNEIDER:

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing l OSCAR BOOK.

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