Clipper (lighter)

Clipper lighters; on the left, the flint system which has been removed from the orange one

Clipper is the brand name of a type of refillable butane lighter, designed by Enric Sardà and owned by Flamagas S.A.^[1] since 1959.

The lighters are mostly produced in Barcelona (Spain), while others are manufactured in Chennai (India) and Shanghai (China).^[2] Clipper has a wide range of lighters, gas refills and other accessories. The first Clipper lighter was made in 1972, and now the worldwide level of production is around 450 million units a year.

The Clipper brand is a division of Flamagas S.A.,^[3] which also distributes stationery and electronics for such brands as Casio and Daewoo.^[4] Flamagas S.A. is headed by Puig, and both companies are subsidiaries of the Exea Corporation.^[5]^[6]

Associations

Some people associate the use of the Clipper lighter with roll-your-own cigarettes. This is due to its removable flint system which is often used by smokers to pack tobacco in roll-your-own cigarettes. It is also often used in the smoking of marijuana because the flint system doubling up as a tamper or "poke" and because its shape allows the user to use the lighter without getting burned.

In popular culture

British garage act The Streets used the Clipper lighter as his logo.^[7] The lighter (bearing the name of the artist) appears on all album covers bar the first album which in fact featured a Swan lighter. Their merchandise includes branded Clipper lighters.
The Artist Damien Hirst also used the images of the Clipper lighter in a series of Artworks together with Silk Cut tobacco boxes.
The authors Anna Hyndman & Graeme Milne wrote and published the novel "Figure of Eight" in 2010, with an original script showing a Clipper lighter as the main character and telling his life in the first person.
Musician Ed Sheeran refers to the Clipper Lighter in his song "Drunk (song)" with the lyrics "There may be other people like us/who see the flicker of the clipper when they light up"

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