206

Lighters

U. S. Patent No. 5,829,965 issued November

3, 1998 to Raul Rubalcava of Santa Ana,

California for a

Multifunction Waiter's Tool

.

Raul combined a bottle opener, a cigarette

lighter, a bread crumb remover, and a

corkscrew.

U. S. Patent No. 6,142,769 issued

November 7, 2000 to Trevor Lee Walker of

San Francisco, California. In discussing his

patent, Walker suggests that previous

inventions lacked certain elements for

waiters to

―

accomplish a plurality of

tasks

‖

. His

Multi-purpose Tool

invention

offers

―

a serrated blade, a cork screw, a

retractable pen, a refillable lighter, a bottle opener, and a flashlight

‖

.