Gas lighter

Abstract

In order to provide a gas lighter which, by causing a flame burning out from a flame hole to emerge as a wide and flat one, combusts a fuel gas while the flame wraps all around the leading end of a cigarette or cigar, the gas lighter includes at least a mixing conduit which mixes the fuel gas jetted out from a gas tank with air, a diffuser connected to the upper portion of the mixing conduit, a combustion cylinder which, being provided so as to surround the diffuser, causes the fuel gas to combust stably, and a windshield member which, being disposed above the combustion cylinder, is provided with a flame hole, wherein at least an opening in the upper portion of the combustion cylinder is formed in an elliptical shape, and the flame hole is formed in a slit shape.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A gas lighter comprising at least
 a mixing conduit which mixes a fuel gas jetted out from a gas tank with air;   a diffuser connected to the upper portion of the mixing conduit;   a combustion cylinder which, being provided so as to surround the diffuser, causes the fuel gas to combust stably; and   a windshield member which, being disposed above the combustion cylinder, is provided with a flame hole, wherein   at least an opening in the upper portion of the combustion cylinder is formed in an elliptical shape, and   the flame hole is formed in a slit shape.   
     
     
         2 . The gas lighter according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the combustion cylinder is formed in a flat shape as a whole.