Wednesday, 14th of September 2011 - Gas Release mechanism

To continue on from the dismantlement of the lighters - a specifically designed mechanism was needed to allow the concept to be applied in a usable way. To make sure the product is easy to use it is not acceptable to simply use lighters in the design. Hence a gas release mechanism is needed to make sure this is possible:

Sketch: This mechanism will allow a lever to lift on a pivot point allowing as to be released from the valve. The valve will screw into the threaded section and attach to the lever which pivots off the center A-frame extrusion. The wedge mechanism to depress this lever will pivot off of the cylindrical extrusion (bottom-right of top view). This will allow for a simple "knock-on" - "knock-off" way of releasing the gas to create the ring of flames.

 This will be explored further through the use of computer aided design and simulations...