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 petrol lighter with the construction of 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and improved in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, in addition to conventional cotton wick is equipped with a thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. When bending the body lighted tube is heated by the flame of the lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and rush out, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube openings. At the output are light, forming a rather long 'reactive' flame side, with which is puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.
06.06.2010 
Tags: liftarmy , jet , pipe Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 
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Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958
Manufacturer: Rogers
Name: Rogers Rocket Flame
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 1958
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-40
Pipe petrol lighter with the construction of 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and improved in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, in addition to conventional cotton wick is equipped with a thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. When bending the body lighted tube is heated by the flame of the lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and rush out, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube openings. At the output are light, forming a rather long 'reactive' flame side, with which is puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century, the other brands, like this Japanese Lighter Rogers, are much less common.
Thorens Teleflam, 1920
Title: Thorens Teleflam
Type: Semi-Automatic Pipe Lighter with rising gasoline wick
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1920
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 250-400
