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Pipe Lighter Beattie Jet, 1940
Title: Beattie Jet
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100
Pipe Lighter with gasoline design 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and improved in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, besides the usual cotton wick has a thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. With lightweight tilt housing lighted tube is heated flame lighters conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert is also heated, expanded and rush out, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On the way out they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' lateral flame, by which is convenient lighting his pipe. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.
06-06-2010 
Tags: liftarmy , reactive , Pipe Categories: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 
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