Change fuel cartridge for Zippo: unrealized invention
In 2004, Zippo has patented a rather unusual thing: a removable fuel cartridge for lighters. By design, these plastic cartridges with the fuel inside had to be bought in store instead of bottles with gasoline and plugged directly into a specially modifitsirovannny insert. The principle of operation is clear from the first pair of images: the fuse is located in a tube with a sharp end that the plastic fuel tank with just pierced when installed in an insert:
At first glance it is very convenient and easy, but leaves open the question of compatibility of this cartridge has released earlier five hundred million inserts :) The second set of illustrations is an alternate version of the cartridge and use it (without a special tube for the wick), but this is not so convenient as option number one:
In general, the invention so far remained on paper ... but who knows, maybe in a few years we will see something like this in production.
Interested parties can download a PDF-file with the patent entirely.
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I remembered this one's device:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUaXC3kzj4M
In my practical and simple :)
I think these solutions are worthy, they would replace zippo blue! ..
Spasibo, o4en interesniy post!
In the presence of an admixture of the hands and skill can be something like that and the pile itself.