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 enhanced in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, apart from the usual cotton wick it has a thin hollow copper tube which passes through the insert and a cotton filler. When a light tilting body lighted tube is heated by the flame of a lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes and heat inside the insert, expand and rush outside, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On the way out they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' side flame, through which user-friendly lighting his pipe. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.

Similar lighters:

  1. Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958
  2. Table Lighter Swank, 1950
  3. Thorens Teleflam, 1920
  4. Mexican silver lighter lift arm, 1940

06-06-2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Beattie Jet, United States

9 comment (-ev)

  1. Yurii - 07.04.2011

    More recently I came across this video and immediately decided to buy
    afford the same.
    Enjoyed. In the leather version, hard, nice in the hand. Density pile wool as well as flame strike, unequivocal
    must have for lovers.
    Thanks for the review.)

  2. Eugene - 16.05.2011

    where you can buy?

  3. kypexin - 20.05.2011

    On Ebay you can buy it :)

  4. Atlantique - 12.01.2012

    seen a lot on Ebay, there are in good condition and not very INGOs without flint and wick. cann't tell which is better suited here. and, at the bottom of the lighter across different labels, fake lighters have this?

  5. kirasa - 12.01.2012

    Other nadpisi- is different years of manufacture, counterfeiting is not met, may have been, but such models vypuskalis- Jet Stream company Champ Austria, were still Japanese, one of them quite nicely done, square body with straight faces, large and tyazhёlaya- Fire -Flash

  6. Atlantique - 13.01.2012

    it now also selling on Ebay, and that flints and wicks? By the way, if anyone has to Shoroshim state - waiting for proposals

  7. Yuriy - 19.05.2012

    http://www.apassionforpipes.com/neills-blog/2011/4/5/the-amazing-beattie-jet-lighter.html

  8. Alexander - 31.05.2013

    Where can buy?

  9. kypexin - 04.06.2013

    Alexander, you are here: http://vintagelighters.ru/forum/market/

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