US1474105A - Bottle opener - Google Patents

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E. CAMP ET AL BOTTLE OPENER Original Ffiled June 5. 1920 S 4 w y m; a: nu r m W m name can

ERNEST CAMP AND ALBERT F. SCHATZEL, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE OPENER.

Application filed June 3, 1920, Serial No. 386,295.

To aZZ whom e't'vnay concern:

Be it known that we, ERNEST CAMP and ALB RT F. Sormrznn, citizens of the United States, residing at San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Gpeners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to bottle openers and lore particularly to a device carried by the bottle whereby corks may readily be removed therefrom.

An important object of the invention is to provide a device of the above character, which is simple in construction, maybe applied to bottles packed in cartons and which, when so applied, may be shifted so that the operating parts thereof do not in any way interfere with the packing of the bottle.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent throughout the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, where for 2 the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred form of our invention and wherein like numerals designate like parts throughout:

Figure 1 is a perspective of a bottle show ing our improved opener attached thereto for use.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a bottle showing in solid lines the position in which the opener is placed when the bottle is being packed for shipment, and in dotted lines the position to which the opener is shifted when it is desired to remove the cork, and

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary side elevation of a bottle showingour improved opener attached to the neck thereof and illustrating in dot-ted lines, the position assumed by the opener when the cork is being removed.

teferring now more particularly to the drawings, our improved bottle opener is formed of a single piece of wire and preferably of resilient wire. This wire is provided at one end with a curved portion 10 adapted to partially encircle the neck of the bottle, to which the device is to be applied, such curved portion being of suiiicient length that it is readily retained upon the neck of the bottle, the space 11 between the ends thereof, being slightly less than a semicircle.

Renewed September 18, 1922. Serial No. 589,012.

T 1e wire at one end of the curved portion' 10 is provided with a horizontal extension 12 which is bent back upon itself as at 13. The wire is provided at each side of the bend 13 with an angular horizontally disposed bend 1. 1 thereby forming a thumb piece or hand grip portion 15. The free end of the wire forming the hand grip portion 15 extends inwardly and engages the neck of the bottle and is provided with an upward extension 16, which, when the device is applied to the neck of the bottle as clearly shown in Fig. 1, abuts the neck N of the bottle. The end of the upward extension is offset as at 17, said offset ter minating in a second upwardly extending portion 18 sufficiently spaced from the neck of the bottle to clear the bead S from the necir. The upward end of the extension 18 terminates in a horizontal portion 19 extendingrfrom the mouth of the bottle and providedin its end with a loop 20 which is adapted to receive a screw 21 or the like by means of which the loop 20 is secured to the cork G of the bottle.

When the bottle having our device applied thereto is to be packed in a carton, or the like, the extension bearing the thumb piece 15 thereof may be swung to the position indicated in Fig. 2, so that it extends over the shoulder 3 of the bottle and will not interfere with the packing thereof. When it is desired to remove the cork the device may be rotated so as to bring the thumb piece to the position grasped by the end for this purpose.

It will be obvious, to those familiar with the art, that by the use of our remover, the use two hands in opening a bottle is unnecessary, and that furthermore, by holding the thumb piece 15 between the thumb and fore finger with the remaining fingers of the hanc grasping the bottle, the position of the cork may be regulated to govern the outlet of the contents of the bottle as desired.

It will further bev obvious, that in the construction of our device, the particular formation hereinbefore set forth need not be specifically adopted, and we therefore do not limit ourselves to such particular construction, but may make any such changes, without departing from the spirit of the invention, or the scope of the subjoined claims.

'Having now described our invention,

what we claim is:

1. A bottle opener of the class described forbottles, provided at the upper end of the neck thereof \vith a bead, comprising, a curved member adapted without disengagement from the bottle neck to be vertically shiftable and mounted upon and roof a bottle, said curved member being provlded with a horizontally dlsposed portion forming a thumb piece, an upwardly extending portion connected with said thumb piece adapted to engage the outer wall of V the neck'of a bottle through a portion of its length and provided upon its upper end with a horizontal portion adapted to extend over the mouth of a bottle and be secured to the cork thereof.

3. A bottle opener of the class described comprising, a single piece of wire provided upon one end thereof with a curved portion adapted to be mounted'upon and rotatable about the neck ofa bottle,the wire at one end of said curved portion extending horizontally and being provided with 'ofiset bends forming a thumb piece, the free end of the portion of the wire forming the thumb piece being adapted to engage: the

neck of a bottle and being provided with' a vertically extending "portion likewise adapted to engage the neck, said vertically extending portion being provided withan offset terminating in a second vertically'ex tending portion, the upper end of said last named vertically extending portion being provided with a horizontal extension terminating in a loop adapted to be secured to a bottle stopper.

4-. The combination with a bottle embodying oppositely directed shoulders and the usual neck, provided at the upper end 7 thereof with a bead,'of a member vertically shiftable without disengagement from the bottle neck and rotatably mounted upon the neckbelow the head of the bottle embody: ing, a vertical portion adaptedto have secured thereto 'a cork' and a thumb piece whereby the member may be shifted, said thumb piece being adapted .to normally overlie one of the shoulders of the bottle.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures.

ERNEST CAMP. ALBERT F. 'SCHATZEL.

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