US2347734A - Bottle cap remover - Google Patents

Description

May ,2, 1944.

'c. H. cowAN, JR" 2,347,734

BOTTLE GAP nsuov'm Original Filed Aug. 12, 1941 Patented May 2, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BOTTLE CAP REMOVER Charles H. Cowan, Jr., Stonington, Conn.

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a bottle cap remover and has for an object to provide a device of this character which may be attached to the neck of a bottle and then this bottle used as a handle to exert great leverage upon a hook portion of the device which is engageable underneath the cap of the bottle to be opened, so that the cap will be detached from the bottle in a single operation and with very little manual exertion.

A further object is to provide apparatus of this character which will be formed of a single part, which will be inexpensive to manufacture, and which will not easily get out of order.

With the above and other objects in View the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, it being understood that various modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bottle cap remover applied to one bottle to be used as a handle and engaged with the cap of a bottle to be opened.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the bottle cap remover showing the opposite side from that shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the bottle cap remover shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of the bottle cap remover shown in Figure 2.

Figure 5 is a rear elevation of the bottle cap remover shown in Figure 2 looking toward the left end of the figure.

Figure 6 is a rear elevation of a modified form of the invention.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of reference designate similar parts in the various views, It designates a bottle to be used as a handle and H designates a bottle from which the metal cap 12 is to be removed.

The bottle cap remover comprises a lever l3, preferably formed of resilient metal and curved longitudinally and transversely to fit snugly against the neck of the bottle it which will form a handle. The lever is removably held in place by curved arms I4 and H), of equal length, both arms forming integral parts of the lever and being adapted to embrace the bottle neck.

The lever is curved downwardly and inwardly from the arms to form a hook it adapted to be engaged underneath the metal bottle cap 1 2 which is to be removed. The opposite end of the lever is provided with an outwardly curved extension H between which and the bottle Iii forming the handle a metal bottle cap I8 may be inserted to detach the bottle cap remover from the neck of the bottle ii].

In operation the neck of the bottle it is passed laterally between the arms l4 and 85, these arms being resilient to receive the bottle neck and to clamp the bottle neck tightly to the lever E3. The bottle ii! is then used as a handle to engage the hook it underneath the bottle cap 12 on the bottle H which is to be opened, whereupon the bottle it is forced downwardly to engage the lever upon the bottle cap i2 as a fulcrum and simultaneously lift the hook It upwardly to detach the cap easily and quickly from the bottle H with minimum manual effort.

A modified form of the invention is shown in Figure 6. In this form of the inventio the bottle neck embracing arms l9 and 2b are of unequal length and receive the bottle neck in the same manner as the arms I4 and I5 of equal length.

From the above description it is thought that the construction and operation of the invention will be fully understood without further explanation.

This application is a substitute for applicants earlier application for the same invention filed August 12, 1941, Serial No. 406,549.

What is claimed is:

1. A bottle cap remover comprising, a resilient lever curved longitudinally and transversely to fit the contour of the neck of a bottle, curved arms, integral with the forward end of the lever adapted to embrace the neck of the bottle to secure the lever to the bottle to permit the bottle to form a handle for exerting leverage on the lever, said lever being provided at said end thereof with a rearwardly and upwardly extending hook to engage underneath and re move the metal cap of a bottle disposed at substantially a right angle to the first named bottle.

2. The structure as of claim 1 and in which the rear end of the lever is curved outwardly .to be engaged by any object to pry the lever off of the first named bottle.

CHARLES H. COWAN, JR.

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