Holder for cigarette lighter

Claim 1

A holder for a cigarette lighter, adapted to be suspended from the neck of a wearer, comprising: a leather sleeve, open at both ends, formed from a generally rectangular flexible sheet of leather, folded to align two opposite edges thereof, wherein portions of the sheet adjacent the aligned edges are stitched together along the aligned edges, to form said sleeve, said sleeve having a roughened inner surface and being dimensioned to substantially cover a cylindrical butane tank and to permit the sleeve to receive and frictionally engage the lighter, so that the lighter is retained within the sleeve without providing a bottom end for the sleeve, and so that a portion of the lighter including an actuation member of the lighter protrudes beyond one of the open ends of said sleeve; and a strap, laced through a plurality of holes in said sleeve in the upper end of the sleeve, the ends of said strap being tied together to form a closed loop, said strap being of sufficient length to encircle the neck of the wearer to permit the lighter to hang loosely from the neck when the lighter is not in use and of sufficient length to permit the lighter to be manually grasped, actuated and positioned upright to light a cigarette in the mouth of the wearer.