ROSA GALLEMÍ BALAGUÉ - ANTONIO PUIG (Marc Puig Guasch) - FLAMAGAS/FLAMASATS 14TH DELIVERY

                                                       

                 Advertising of our Consul lighters in the Diario de Barcelona, ​​10, 6, 1967

On November 11, 1969, my aunt Elisa Balagué i Sans, who had been in the Alhama de Aragón Spa for a few days, died under strange circumstances at the age of 73. She had left Barcelona with her driver to spend a few days off with her husband Francesc Castelló and she died suddenly without suffering from any known serious illness that could have been the cause of said outcome. The whole family and I logically lived the loss of my aunt in a surprising and sad way, since nothing presaged a sudden end and also far from home. As a result of her death, all the properties of my grandmother and hers, Guinardo's real estate, her shares in her industries, etc. they passed to my uncle Francesc Castelló and later, as I will explain, to the Puigs.

                                         

Note of the death of my aunt Elisa Balagué where the companies Industrias Metálicas Castelló SA,                          Monturas y Fornituras SA and Flamagas SA from the Puig are mentioned

After a well-calculated follow-up of our industrial activities, already at the beginning of the 70's the Puig and Flamagas/Flamasats began to study the manufacture for the first time of their Clipper lighter produced in plastic, with a gas refill valve in its lower part, with the possibility of changing the ignition stone when it runs out, the flame regulation system, in addition to other features, etc. the vast majority copied from my husband's and my numerous Invention Patents and from our first Roni refillable plastic lighter. They also began to plan the manufacture of the Universal Gas Multicharges for lighters, similarly copied from ours and later the electronic lighter with its mechanism exactly traced to ours. All of this was developing over a certain period of time, during part of which Flamagas bought our own Gas Multi-fillers and lighters from us, in order to be able to resell them in a first phase, since they still did not manufacture these products and make a detailed copy of them. And all of the above is not a possible invention of mine, but is corroborated before a Notary precisely by a former employee of Flamagas, Mr. Antoni Colell Gomá, who was the person who on numerous occasions came to our company to buy the Gas Lighters and Multicharges. that later Flamagas would use to make copies of them, despite all of them being previously patented by us and without ever requesting any authorization for said copies or ever compensating us for these continued plagiarisms and that still reach our days, having enriched the Puig in this way without any scruple. Mr. Antonio Colell Gomà confirms all of the above in a Notarial Act for having witnessed said copies. He personally lived in his company the copy by Flamagas of a large part of the components of my lighters and gas charges protected by my Patents. He personally, as he said, managed the purchases of our Gas Multicharges and Lighters, before his old Flamagas company was able to manufacture them by itself. He had visited our Metamar factory for it on numerous occasions and he was aware of the particular business policy that Flamagas followed with the competition and the habitual copying of registered Patents of other manufacturers.

                                              

                                                 Clipper lighter with stone ignition

                                                                  

                                                         Clipper Electronic Lighter

                                               

                                                  Universal Clipper gas multicharger

These three products, the Clipper stone ignition lighter, the Clipper electronic lighter and the Universal Gas Multicharger are the best-selling products and have been copied from my Patents for years by Puig and Flamagas/Flamasats and have been enriched them thanks to plagiarism commented. I will detail following the copies made by them of each mechanism.