Cigarette and cigar lighter

Abstract

A lighting device for cigarettes and cigars having an upright elongate body, a lid openable approximately ninety angular degrees from the body, a nozzle for producing a flame and directing the flame from the body at an angled direction between the body and the lid. The proximity of the flame base to the lid protects the flame from being inadvertently extinguished, while the distance of the flame tip from the lid allows the lighting of large diameter cigars and avoids overheating of the lid.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention is related to cigarette and cigar lighting apparatuses.BACKGROUND[0002]Cigarette lighters, as their name implies, are primarily designed to light cigarettes and are not optimally configured for lighting cigars, whose diameters vary and are much larger than that of a cigarette, and which generally take longer to light than a cigarette.[0003]Cigars consist of a barrel, a head, and a foot. The barrel is the long tubular body portion. The foot is the end which is lit by the lighter and burned during smoking. The head is the tip of the cigar which the consumer places in his mouth during smoking. Barrel diameters of cigars can range from approximately ⅜-inch to approximately ⅞-inch.[0004]Cigarette lighters produce a lighting flame that has a flame base at its bottom and exiting the lighters flame nozzle, and a flame tip at its top which is disposed against the foot of the cigar or cigarette during lighting.[0005]Cigars oftentimes being so ...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]The invention may be embodied as a lighting device for cigarettes and cigars having an upright elongate body, a lid openable approximately ninety angular degrees from the body, a nozzle atop the body for producing a flame and directing the flame from the body at an angled direction between the body and the lid. The proximity of the flame base to the lid protects the flame from being inadvertently extinguished, while the distance of the flame tip from the lid allows the lighting of large diameter cigars and avoids overheating of the lid.

Problems solved by technology

Cigarette lighters, as their name implies, are primarily designed to light cigarettes and are not optimally configured for lighting cigars, whose diameters vary and are much larger than that of a cigarette, and which generally take longer to light than a cigarette.

Cigars oftentimes being so expensive, cigar smokers are typically very serious about the implements and accessories they use for smoking, and typically want a high-quality lighter for lighting their cigars properly, and to impress other cigar smokers.

Oft times, the larger and varying barrel and foot diameters of cigars make proper lighting with a lidded lighter difficult.

It is often impossible to properly position the foot over the flame tip due to interference with the lid.

The distance between the nozzle and the lid is insufficient to allow the foot to be centrally positioned over the flame tip and rotated to symmetrically ignite the entire foot.

Repositioning the flame base further from the lid during design of the lighter would introduce an undesirable side effect, in that the flame would be more easily inadvertently blown out during use if the flame base is not close enough to the lid for effective sheltering.

Another disadvantage to existing lidded lighters, whether for use with cigarettes or cigars, is that the proximity of the flame base to the lid that is needed for proper sheltering results in a flame tip so close to the lid that the lid is often inadvertently overheated by the flame, which is especially common during longer lighting times of cigars.

This results in a hot lid that might burn the user or delay his ability to close the lid or put the lighter back into his pocket or such until after the lid has cooled down.

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