Blowlamp

A blowlamp is a hand-held device containing a fuel tank and a burner, designed to make a hot flame up to a few inches long.

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Nowdadys the fuel is usually propane or butane or a mixture of them.

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In some blowlamps, more used in old times, the fuel is paraffin, and the blowlamp includes a small hand-operated pressurizing pump, and lighting it needed a time-consuming ritual including using meths to heat the burner hot enough to vaporize the paraffin.

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Blowlamps are used for jobs such as burning paint off, melting solder or lead, and many other uses.

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A flame gun is a big two-handed blowlamp, usually paraffin-powered, up to a yard or so long. See this link for an example.

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Propane: A three-carbon alkane, propane is sometimes derived from other petroleum products during oil or natural gas processing....

Butane: Butane, also called n-butane, is the unbranched alkane with four carbon atoms, CH3CH2CH2CH3. Butane is also used as a collective term for n-butane together with its only other isomer, iso-butane (also called i-butane, isobutane, or 2-methylpropane), CH3CH(CH3)2....

Paraffin: Paraffin is a common name for a group of high molecular weight alkane hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n+2, where n is greater than about 20, discovered by Carl Reichenbach.In the United Kingdom and South Africa the fuel known elsewhere as kerosene is called paraffin oil (or just paraffin),...