DE7109412U - DEVICE FOR OPENING CONTAINERS, IN PARTICULAR BOTTLES WITH CROWN CORKS - Google Patents

Description

Otto Glöser
Patent attorney 8076 Ebenhausen-Werk, ... 8.3. 1.971

Upper Ingolltadt / D.

Applicant ; Erwin Rennich, 8071 Stammnem , Industriestr. 3

Device for opening containers, in particular bottles with crown corks

The innovation relates to a device for opening Containers, in particular bottles with crown corks, the device being supported on the one hand on the crown cork and on the other hand at one point under the edge of the crown cap.

Various suggestions have already been made for opening bottles with crown corks. There is, for example, the simple lever opener, which has a kind of eyelet on a short handle, which is placed on the crown cap, a part of which grips under the crown cap so that the crown cap can be lifted off by lifting the handle. Furthermore, an opening device is known in which a flat handle part is bent in an S-shape in the front area and has a flap which is pushed out downward and which engages under the crown cap so that the cork can again be released by lifting. Recently, opening devices have also become known which grasp with a front part under the crown cap and in which by pressure on the opposite end of the opener

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the crown cap is tipped off the bottle, so to speak. In this device, the deformation of the respective crown cap low so that it can be put back on if necessary. However, it is disadvantageous that in these devices a relatively large amount of force is required. Basically, it should be noted that the known devices for Open bottles with crown corks from the point of view of handling, meet the requirements, if one disregards the fact that a further reduction in the expenditure of force would certainly be welcomed. In any case, it will be considered disadvantageous that the loosened crown corks often fall down or lie around in some other way. Likewise, one takes offense that it is only there are few suggestions to design the opening devices as such, as is the case, for example, with corkscrews from Case is.

In contrast, the aim of the innovation is a device of the type mentioned at the outset, which, as it were, initially removes the loosened cork stored, so avoids the loosened crown corks lying around or falling down. In addition, the Device have an attractive appearance and be adaptable to the respective wishes or requirements. Further The aim is that the device works reliably and only a small amount of force is required. Finally, there is a requirement that the device move within an economically portable framework.

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This aim is mainly achieved by the A device of any design, a drainable catching and collecting container, is associated with ei · xux * cLlö gciubtcn ivL-üuciiküx-kcii. With this measure, the main disadvantage, namely the annoying lying around of the loosened crown cork, is avoided by after loosening the catch and receiving container picks up the corks and thus withdraws them from the critical eyes of the observer.

According to a further special feature of the innovation it is provided that the catch and receiving container and the device a Form the handle unit and the device as such when it is in use the crown cap with a lever-like part like a bridge spanned, with a front claw engaging under the crown cap and a crossbar or the like Diameter line of the crown cap is supported on this. The handle unit results in a long and strong lever arm, see above that you can get by with little effort to loosen the crown cap, which is always felt to be pleasant. The low effort is mainly due to the fact that the distance between the crosspiece and the claw measured on the Overall length of the unit is small, so that there is a favorable transmission ratio or a favorable lever arm. The merging of the container and the actual device but also lead to a good overall appearance that can be varied with little effort! Can be adapted to requirements.

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According to the innovation, it is also considered expedient that the catch and receiving container made of a piece of metal pipe or plastic, which preferably merges in one piece into the lever-like part of the device and on the other End a releasable closure such as an end plug having. The preferred one-piece production is particularly valuable because, on the one hand, it includes the entire device robustly designed and on the other hand saves precious working time in the production, so the device in addition to their mechanical advantages also has economic advantages. The releasable lock in turn enables an easy Emptying of the collecting and receiving container, which can be of any size despite its pleasing appearance. Whether for the Device uses a piece of pipe or prefers the manufacture of plastic, is on the one hand a question of price and on the one hand others a question of appearance. For example, if a dignified design is desired, a piece of metal pipe is used that can be chrome-plated or anodized. The production from plastic will come into question above all, if the device is to be particularly inexpensive. In addition, plastic has the advantage that without any post-treatment high corrosion resistance is given.

With regard to a pleasing shape, which is also sufficiently rigid, it is considered advantageous according to the innovation, that the lever-like part of the device in cross section a semicircular and flowing into the pipe cross-section of the Catch and receiving container has transitional shape and on one

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the front end wall has the claw which grips under the crown edge and which is the width of the semicircular cross-section spanned like a plate and adapted to the radius of curvature of the bottle neck on the side facing the crown cap is, while the transverse web or the like. Sunk about the cork height can be in the semicircular shape. With the last mentioned recessed arrangement of the crossbar one achieves that the attached device is not extremely oblique, but runs essentially horizontally, which makes handling easier. Adjusting the claw to the radius of curvature of the bottle neck increases the contact surface of the claw, so that slipping is not to be feared.

Another feature of the innovation is that the lever-like and in cross-section semicircular part of the device is designed in its length so that on the Crown cork of resting device a gap remains between the socket piece of the catching and receiving container and the bottle, whereby the lower part of the front edge of the pipe section can still be recessed in accordance with the curvature of the bottle neck can. This gfs. still enlarged gap offers a guarantee that with the device the respective crown cork so can be raised far so that it is actually detached from the bottle neck and then into the inclined JPang- and receptacle can fall.

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In order to avoid that in the catch and receiving container \. "Crown corks located in the front accidentally fall out and possibly hinder the lifting of a further crown cork, the innovation provides that a drop flap consisting of a wire loop is located in the front area of the pipe section of the catching and receiving container When the device is in a horizontal position, it is hinged at the top, ν ad runs slightly diagonally backwards and downwards, with the upper linkage preferably being concealed Making the drop flap out of wire has above all economic advantages, quite apart from the fact that it is weight-saving.

Finally, the innovation provides that the chrome-plated and / or high-gloss sprayed or otherwise surface-treated Areas of the device with visible fields for inscriptions, advertising purposes, etc. or with embossing of any type. In this way, special information about the contents of the bottles to be opened, on the manufacturing company or the like, without it being particularly significant and unfavorably priced Action is required. Of course, the surfaces of the device do not necessarily have to be used for advertising purposes,

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rather, embossments of a general type can be provided, which make the opening device more valuable and attractive design.

In the drawing, the innovation is illustrated, for example, show us:

1 shows the device according to the invention in side view ;

FIG. 2 shows part of the device according to FIG. 1 from below; FIG.

3 shows the device according to the innovation in a front view, from the left "viewed;

Fig. 4- a longitudinal section through the device, which is currently on a crown cap of a Bottle is put on;

Fig. 5 shows the device during the opening movement, partially in section and

6 is a sectional view of the device with which a bottle has been opened, the The cork is just falling into the collecting and receiving container.

From the drawing it can be seen that the device 1 essentially union consists of a piece of pipe 2 which is closed with a plug 3 at one end. The pipe section 2 forms a collecting and receiving container 4 and also merges in its front area into a lever-like part 5,

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which has a semicircular shape in cross section. Different Expressed this means that the tube 2 is correspondingly notched. The part 5 is closed at the end with a plate 6. In addition, a claw 7 can be seen, which spans the cross section of the part 5 like a plate and a recess 8, which is adapted approximately to the radius of curvature of a bottle neck 9. In this way it is possible that the claw 7 can be conveniently and securely attached to a crown cap 10, as can be seen from FIG. 4-.

The part 5 also has a web 11, the height of the Crown cap 10 is reset, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6. In particular, FIGS. 1 and 2 also show that that the front edge 12 of the pipe section 2 has a recess 13 which increases the tilting movement of the device 1 in the direction of arrow 14 allows.

The catch and receiving container 4, which is connected to the actual device 5 forms a unit, is closed at the front by a flap 15, which consists of a wire loop and 3 can be seen particularly well in FIG. This wire loop or drop flap 15 is designed like a hook at 16 and cannot be lost suspended on an axis 17 of the unit 4, 5. The flap 15 is arranged at a slight angle, so that they at least in the horizontal position of the device 1 represents a secure closure of the container 4 to the front.

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the Inclined position the ...... .... according to Fig . 6th is located the Flap 15 in - 9 - so that the Crown crown at Device 1 themselves their disclosure

ken 10 can fall through freely, from ü'ig. 1 finally a field 18 can also be seen, which can accommodate embossings of a raised or recessed type or prepared for advertising purposes is.

Working with the novel device 1 is very easy. It is grasped by hand on the pipe section 2 and hung under the crown cork 10 with the claw 7. At a pressure on the tube 2 downwards, that is to say in the direction of the arrow 14 according to FIG. 5, the crown cap 10 shown there is lifted off. After an even greater incline has been reached, it falls the crown cork 10 and arrives more or less inevitably in the catch and receiving container 4-, as this is readily apparent from Fig. 6.

Claims (1)

Protection claims 1. Device for opening containers, in particular of Bottles with crown caps, the device being supported on the one hand on the crown cap and on the other hand at one point under the Eand of the Krorenkorkens, characterized in that the device (1) of any construction emptying catch and receiving container (4) for the loosened crown cork (1C) is assigned. 2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the collecting and receiving container (4) and the device (1) one The handle unit and the device (1) as such, when it is in use, the crown cork ("30) with a lever-like one Part (5) spanned like a bridge, with a front claw (7) engaging under the crown cap (10) and a transverse web (11) or the like. Is supported on this approximately along a diameter line of the crown cap (10). 3. Device according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that that the catch and receiving container (4) consists of a pipe section (2) made of metal or plastic, which is preferably integrally merges into the lever-like part (5) of the device (1) and a detachable one at the other end Closure, for example a plug (3). 4. Device according to claims 1 to 3, characterized in that that the lever-like part (5) of the device (1) 7109 4 Tf 2 4.8.71 in cross section a semicircular and flowing into the Pipe cross-section of the collecting and receiving container (4) has a transition shape and at a front end edge (6) the claw (7) gripping under the edge of the crown, which plate-like the width of the semicircular cross-section spanned and on the side facing the crown cap (10) the radius of curvature of the bottle neck (9) is adapted, while the transverse web (11) or the like. Sunk about the cork height in the semicircular shape (5) can. 5. Device according to claims 1 to 4, characterized in that that the lever-like and semicircular part (5) of the device (1) designed in its length is that with the device (1) resting on the crown cork (10) between the pipe section (2) of the collecting and receiving container (4) and the bottle (9) a gap remains, the lower part of the front edge of the pipe section still can be recessed according to the curvature of the bottle neck (cf. 13). 6. Device according to claims 1 to 5, characterized in that that in the front area of the pipe section (2) of the collecting and receiving container (4) one, e.g. from a Wire loop existing drop flap (15), which, when viewed in the horizontal position of the device (1), is sharpened at the top is articulated like a kidney and runs slightly obliquely downwards to the rear, the upper articulation (see FIG. 16) being preferably concealed . 7. "Device according to claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the chrome-plated and / or high-gloss sprayed or otherwise surface-treated surfaces of the device (1) with visible fields (18) for inscriptions, advertising purposes, etc. or with embossing of any kind are equipped. 710141224.8.71