Liyu Lin

US Patent:

60930160, Jul 25, 2000

Filed:

Jan 7, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/227052

Inventors:

LiYu Lin - Woodside NY

International Classification:

F23Q 232

US Classification:

431125

Abstract:

A portable cigarette lighter in the form of a statute of a human figure holding a torch high at the end of one outstretched hand and holding an object in the other hand, such as the statute of liberty adorning New York harbor, includes a hollow housing in the form of a human which houses a fluid storage cylinder and an associated valve that controls release of fluid from the cylinder to a fluid outlet rod that extends from the cylinder to the torch and transports fluid to the torch via the rod. A spring loaded rocker arm whose upward rotating is limited by the housing and which can be depressed downward to activate the lighter includes the hand holding an object and extends into the housing where it fastens to a pivot around which it rotates. Pushing the hand holding the object causes the rocker arm to rotate downward into an actuating cam that depresses a piston linked that opens the fluid discharge valve. Means known in the art, such as sending a spark to the end of a wire adjacent the rod in the torch, simultaneously ignites the fluid in the torch to cause a flame to extend out of the torch through an aperture.