EP1151960B1 - Pocket cork-screw - Google Patents

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EP1151960B1
EP1151960B1 EP20010106852 EP01106852A EP1151960B1 EP 1151960 B1 EP1151960 B1 EP 1151960B1 EP 20010106852 EP20010106852 EP 20010106852 EP 01106852 A EP01106852 A EP 01106852A EP 1151960 B1 EP1151960 B1 EP 1151960B1
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cork
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Cesare Patrizio
Alessandra Patrizio
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B7/00—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers
    • B67B7/02—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers for removing stoppers
    • B67B7/04—Cork-screws
    • B67B7/0417—Cork-screws with supporting means for assisting the pulling action
    • B67B7/0423—Cork-screws with supporting means for assisting the pulling action of wine-waiter, i.e. sommelier type
    • B67B7/0429—Cork-screws with supporting means for assisting the pulling action of wine-waiter, i.e. sommelier type having means for varying the effective lever arm length

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  • the present invention relates to a pocket cork-screw as set forth in the preamble of the claim.
  • a cork-screw is known from US-A 4 437 359.
  • pocket cork-screws often replaced the traditional cork-screws due both to cost reasons and to overall dimensions, as it could be inserted into a pocket and easily taken out from it whenever it should be operated.
  • cork-screw The main problem of such a type of cork-screw is given by that two distinct operations are necessary for a total extraction especially whenever a long (up to 5 cm.) cork should be extracted from bottle neck. At first cork is screwed with extraction means, then bottle neck is propped with propping means, a first extraction operation is made and then a second operation is repeated in order to obtain a complete cork extraction.
  • propping means are made of an arm, which is pivoted in correspondence of the end in the central body; on said central body two levers are pivoted, each one provided with a step, which are arranged at different height with respect to bottle neck (see e.g. US-A 4 437 359).
  • a further solution which is available on the market, concerns the presence of a double propping means, i.e. means provided with two distinct arms, which are both pivoted on the same pin.
  • a first arm is provided with a first step
  • the second arm is provided with a second step, which is just a bit more distant from pin with respect to first step.
  • Distance between first and second step is substantially small, i.e. first step isn't situated at a significant distance from the second one, otherwise an interference between two steps should occur, which could knock against cork. Consequence of such a solution: presence of second step doesn't appear resolutive as far as a complete extraction of a cork from bottle neck is concerned, especially when cork is 5-6 cm. long.
  • cork-screw intends to solve concerns the possibility that a pocket cork-screw is provided with means, which guarantee a complete cork extraction from bottle neck also in the case of long (5-6 cm.) corks, avoiding a further screwing of extraction means and utilizing sophisticated propping means, which could be provided with at least two levers, each one with one step, doing away with requirement that operator applies a manual control against a possible interference of cork to be extracted with non operative step.
  • the cork-screw according to the invention comprises a central body (Figs. 1,2), where, in correspondence of its substantial center line, rotating extraction means are pivoted. They are made of a screwing spiral 2, whereas propping means are present for cork 3 extraction, which are comprising two levers, a first one 4, shorter than a second one 5, which are both pivoted on a pin 6.
  • Lever 4, pricked in Fig.2, contains lever 5, and it is therefore external to lever 5, which is adapted to rotate around pin 6 inside slot 7.
  • Lever 5 is provided with a shoulder 8 (se also Figs.3,5), which is adapted to act against a shoulder 9 (Fig.5) of lever 4, so that it could make lever 4 rotate clockwise as soon as lever 5 becomes operative. Therefore pin 6, slot 7 and shoulders 8,9 represent rotating means of lever 4 with respect to lever 5, so that interference of lever 4 with cork during operation of definitive extraction controlled by second lever 5, should be avoided.
  • Lever 4 is provided with a step 10, which is adapted to lean a neck of a bottle 11, whereas lever 5 is provided with a step 12, which is adapted to lean neck of bottle 11, as it will be apparent later on.
  • a first solution which could solve the problem, is given by a possible independence if two steps, based on that they are two independent levers. But also such a solution doesn't appear sufficient, because step of first lever could be always adapted to interfere with cork during second and definitive extraction run of cork from bottle.
  • the cork-screw according to the invention provides the presence on two levers 4,5 of shoulders respectively 9,8, which should eliminate interference of first lever 4 with cork or bottle neck, as soon as step 12 of second lever 5 becomes operative.
  • step 12 of lever 5 is leaning bottle neck (Fig.4)
  • a light effort which acts on lever 5 (Fig.5), is sufficient for making pin 6 in slot 7 lower from position in Fig.4 to position in Fig.5, whereby shoulder 8 of lever 5 acts against shoulder 9 of lever 4.
  • Said lever 4 is obliged to rotate clockwise around pin 6 and consequently step 10 is removed from bottle neck, as Fig.5 shows.
  • first lever 4 is removed from second lever 5, as a consequence of mutual action of shoulder 9,8 of levers 4,5.
  • Such a mutual action is due to the cork extraction operation, which is exerted by operator just when central body 1 is manually raised.

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EP20010106852 2000-05-03 2001-03-19 Pocket cork-screw Expired - Lifetime EP1151960B1 (en)

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ITPN20000028 ITPN20000028A1 (it) 2000-05-03 2000-05-03 Cavatappi tascabile
ITPN000028 2000-05-03

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US10494242B2 (en) 2016-12-29 2019-12-03 Kristen A. Lippert Wine key

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DE20205368U1 (de) * 2002-04-06 2002-06-13 Fackelmann Gmbh & Co Kg Korkenzieher
FR2978133B1 (fr) * 2011-07-18 2014-08-29 Distri Coutale Tire-bouchon a double point d'appui
IT201700050698A1 (it) 2017-05-10 2018-11-10 Patrick S R L Cavatappi

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FR2482940B1 (fr) * 1980-05-23 1986-03-07 Desnoulez Bruno Tire-bouchon
IT8360470V0 (it) * 1983-10-28 1983-10-28 Cellini Ferdinando Dispositivo levatappi.
ES1042171Y (es) * 1998-12-31 2000-06-01 Presa Eguren S L Sacacorchos portatil mejorado.

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US10494242B2 (en) 2016-12-29 2019-12-03 Kristen A. Lippert Wine key

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