ROSA GALLEMI BALAGUE - ANTONIO PUIG - XAVIER PUIG ALSINA - MARC PUIG GUASCH - MANUEL PUIG ROCHA - FLAMAGAS/FLAMASATS SA, 15 ª DELIVERY

                                               

                                     Some of our gas refills for Jutson and Consul lighters

                                 COPY OF MY PATENTS BY FLAMAGAS/FLAMASATS

As I explained earlier, at the beginning of the 70's the Puig-Flamagas began to manufacture the Clipper lighter, the electronic model and its Universal Gas Multicharge. As most of the mechanisms and techniques were already being used by our company Metamar based on our previous Invention Patents from several years before, they presented Utility Models of the same mechanisms most of the time, since the Utility Model it was the way to enter the market through the back door, that is, a kind of unapologetic filibustering. In this way they copied numerous of our Invention Patents to register Utility Models of a lower level and that collided and still do, with our claims of each Patent.

             CLIPPER LIGHTER, UTILITY MODEL OF FLAMAGAS S.A. no. 175008

My Invention Patents nº 278004 and nº 285985 of 5, 6, 1962 and 12, 3, 1963 anticipate several years, specifically more than 9, to the Utility Model of Flamagas S.A. nº 175008 of 11, 12, 1971 referring to his Clipper lighter. I detail below the different copies

                                                  

                Invention Patent No. 278004 from 1962 in the name of Rosa Gallemí Balagué

                                                                   PLASTIC DEPOSIT

Clipper's 1971 Utility Model 175008 drawings show the lighter itself, which can actually be referred to as a liquefied gas reservoir or container. In his Descriptive Memory page 1 point 5, he speaks of: “a tubular body of molded plastic material that simultaneously acts as a tank to contain the fuel in liquid state”. That is, it indicates that it registers a plastic tank to contain gas.

With my Invention Patent 278004, in 1962 and 9 years before, I was already patenting this type of tank for the first time and in plastic, as explained in the Descriptive Memory p. 3, point 5: "the main body of the tank (5) is obtained by giving a mass of moldable material, plastic or the like, a cylindrical configuration". This Patent opens the door for the first time in Spain in 1962, to the use of a tank to contain gas and plastic material.

Likewise, my husband Josep Escribano in his Patent of Invention 298348 of 6, 4, 1964 and 7 years before the Utility Model of Flamagas S.A. that concerns us, also records in section 10 page 3 the following: "especially if these (plastic gas tank) are made with moldable plastic materials".

                                                           GAS REFILL VALVE

In the description of Utility Model 175088 of 1971 of Flamagas S.A, they indicate that they have planned to incorporate a gas refill valve into their lighter, as stated in their description, page 6 point 5 "In the lighter that the invention proposes being of relatively cheap type, the possibility of being able to recharge it with fuel has been foreseen".

Quite a few years before the Utility Model 175088 of Flamagas, 6 specifically, my husband Josep Escribano registered on 4, 9, 1965 a new Invention Patent referring to a Gas Refilling Valve as stated in the description of said Patent nº 317129 in section 20 on page 3 when it explains: "it has a circular housing in which the corresponding fuel refilling valve will be incorporated".

                     

                     

In the image on the left we see my husband's Invention Patent No. 317129 from 1965 and on the right the Utility Model 175088 from Flamagas from 1971. In the lower part of each image, the two gas refill valves that use the same principle of the use of a rod or cylinder and a spring that allows its internal displacement at the moment in which the nozzle of a Gas Charge hits said cylinder, thus allowing the lighter to be recharged. Flamagas copied my husband's Patent 6 years later, as can be seen in these two graphs.