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Pipe Lighter Beattie Jet, 1940

Name: 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 fitted thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. When bending body lighted tube is heated flame lighters conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and rush outside, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On leaving they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' side flame, with which conveniently puff tube. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.

06.06.2010 Tags: , , Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 comment (s)