✅ SOLVED Rubber stamp handle? /Cig lighter

[Nathan W]

Not sure if it’s a cigarette lighter for a car or a stamp handle. It’s from Connecticut. I can’t tell or find what the Pat n Pats is

 

[pepperj]

I believe that's a cigarette lighter.
Now what auto did it come from?
Come to think about it-I've never found one
So congrats

 

[releventchair]

Looks a bit like an old automobile cigarette lighter.

 

[releventchair]

I believe that's a cigarette lighter.
Now what auto did it come from?
Come to think about it-I've never found one
So congrats

Ha. I'm a slow writer after looking at pictures.

 

[Mackaydon]

Like this:

VINTAGE CUNO MERIDEN CONN. CAR CIGARETTE LIGHTER & HOUSING | eBay

<p>VINTAGE CUNO MERIDEN CONN. CAR CIGARETTE LIGHTER & HOUSING. </p><p>I don’t think this was ever used. Housing has part number 2157050. Sold as is.</p>

www.ebay.com

Don....
PS: The bottom pic on that site shows the patent number.

 

[Mackaydon]

Adding to previous:
" Much of the Cuno Engineering Corporation’s early success was driven by a product known as the ‘Cuno Electric Match,’ which was a dashboard-mounted cigarette lighter that was marketed as being safer than using traditional matches while driving. "
Source for history of company:

Cuno Engineering Corp. | Making Places

This site provides info on historic CT properties to encourage reuse of these buildings only. We do not represent any past or current business or its products.

connecticutmills.org

Don...

 

[Red-Coat]

Here’s the patent, filed by Henry W. Bilger and Karl T. Kessel, Meriden, Conn., assignors to The Cuno Engineering Corporation, Meriden, Conn. and granted in 1939.



"Our invention relates to a method and means for forming a resistance coil for cigar lighters and the like and especially coils of flat wire or ribbon wound in spiral form."