Portable electric cigarette, cigar and pipe lighter

Claim 1

IN A PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHTER, THE COMBINATION OF A CASING FORMED FROM ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL AND HAVING AN OPEN END, A BATTERY POSITIONED IN SAID CASING AND HAVING ONE POLE THEREOF IN CIRCUIT THEREWITH, A LUG PROVIDED IN THE OPEN END OF THE CASING AT ONE SIDE THEREOF, A GRID OF INSULATING MATERIAL POSITIONED IN THE OPEN END PORTION OF THE CASING IN SPACED RELATION FROM SAID BATTERY, SAID LUG ENGAGING ONE SIDE PORTION OF SAID GRID AND CONSTITUTING A FULCRUM THEREFOR WHEREBY THE GRID MAY BE SWUNG TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID BATTERY, A HINGED CLOSURE FOR THE OPEN END OF THE CASING, A CAM ELEMENT PROVIDED ON THE HINGE OF SAID CLOSURE AND ENGAGING SAID GRID AT A SIDE PORTION THEREOF OPPOSITE FROM SAID LUG, A COMPRESSION SPRING INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID BATTERY AND SAID GRID FOR BIASING THE LATTER IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID CAM ELEMENT, SAID CAM ELEMENT BEING OPERATIVE TO SWING SAID GRID ABOUT SAID FULCRUM TOWARD SAID BATTERY WHEN SAID CLOSURE IS MOVED TO ITS CASING CLOSING POSITION, A RESISTANCE ELEMENT SUPPORTED BY SAID GRID AND HAVING ONE END THEREOF IN CIRCUIT WITH SAID CASING, AND A CONTACT ARM EXTENDING FROM THE SECOND POLE OF SAID BATTERY THROUGH A PASSAGE FORMED IN SAID GRID AND HAVING AN ANGULATED EXTREMITY AT ITS OUTER END, SAID ANGULATED EXTREMITY ELECTRICALLY ENGAGING THE OTHER END OF SAID RESISTANCE ELEMENT TO COMPLETE THE CIRCUIT THERETHROUGH WHEN SAID CLOSURE IS OPENED AND SAID GRID IS SWUNG OUTWARDLY BY SAID SPRING BUT BEING DISENGAGED THEREFROM WHEN THE GRID IS SWUNG INWARDLY BY MOVEMENT OF SAID CLOSURE TO ITS CASING CLOSING POSITION.