US388844A - Cork-extractor - Google Patents

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L. M. DEVORB.

CORK EXTRAOTOR.

No. 388.844. WBaJQBnted Sept. 4, 1888.

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LEVI M. DEVORE, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.

CORK-EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION iorming part of Letters Patent No, 388,844, dated September 4, 1888.

Applieatiou filed October 7,1887.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI M. Dnvonu, a resident of Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in OorkFxtractors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full. clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention is an improvement in cork extractors of the class wherein the longitudinal motion of the bottle is prevented or arrested by a fixed stop, while the axial line of the corkscrew is fixcdand passes through said stop.

It is found that in cork-extractors havinga perforated or slotted stop for the bottle and having the axial iine of the corkscrew fixed, careful insertion of the corkscrew near the middle of the cork is necessary to avoid breakage, for if the screw be inserted at one side of the cork the lateral movement required to bring the cork into coincidence with the aperture in the stop causes a strain upon both the screw and the side wall of the bottle-mouth, often breaking one or both.

To remedy this defect is the object of this improvement. The desired result is acconr plishcd by providing a bottle-stop whose plane is, as usual, fixed at right angles to the line of the corkscrew, but which may be moved bodily in any direction in its own plane.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the base of a cork-extractor provided with my devices, the corkscrew be ing indicated in position in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 shows the base, seen from below with the stop removed. Fig.4 shows the stop alone, seen from above.

In these figures, A is a base adapted to be screwed upon the edge of a shelf or similar I support. It is provided with a bearing, B, and knife 0, designed, respectively, for supporting a corkscrew and for splitting and removing the cork as it emerges from the bottle. The horizontal portion of the base A is recessed upon its lower surface, leaving at its outer margin a flange, I), Figs. 1, 2, and 3, for resting upon the upper surface of the shelf, to

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which the whole is fixed by screws passing through the perforations I), Fig. 3. A stop, F, lies in the recess, and is held loosely in cout-tct with the lower surface of the baseplate by a screw, G, passing through a slot, II, in the stop. The outer end of the stop is provided with an aperlu re, l, forthe passage ofthe cork too small to allow the passage of the bottlemouth. The angle and length of the sloping walls of this opening bear such a relation to the diameter that the end of the bottle must always fall within the walls, even if the cork screw be inserted at one side of the cork or near its circumference, and it is plain that so falling it must tend when pressed against the stop to become concentric with the opening therein-that is, to take such a position that its entire circumference bears upon the sloping walls. \Vith constructions heretofore employed the force with which the bottle end seeks this position is a serious strain laterally upon the corkscrew itself and upon the wall of the bottle-mouth. \Vith this construction, however, the stop moves to the right or left,

in or out, automatically accommodating itself to the position ofthc screw in the cork, and thus prevents serious strain upon either screw or bottle. It does this by swinging and sliding upon the screw G, and evidently. whatevcrits position in its own plane, it offers equally positive resistance to the bottle end pressing against it.

I am aware that neck-clasping jaws have heretofore been employed in bottle-openers and in eorkextractors; but these accomplish a different result in a different way.

I am further aware that a stop offering re sistance to the end or mouth of the bottle has been so constructed as to permit its own replacement by another of different size; but this also is foreign to my invention, and, so far as I am aware, it is new to provide a stop that resists endwise motion of the bottle, and at the same time admits of adjust ment by the motion ofthe bottle itself in any direction transverse to its own axis or to the line of the motion resisted by the stop.

XVhat I claim as now,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cork-extraotor,thc combination,with a fixed corkscrew support, of a bottle-stop mounted upon said support and movable in all directions in a plane at right angles to the corkscrew, whereby axial advance of the bottle may be prevented without interfering with its lateral adjustment, and whereby the resistance of the stop maybe applied at all points of the circumference of the bottlemouth, whatever its lateral adjustment.

2. The combination of the eorkserewsupport A B, the bottle-stop F, secured in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the corkscrew and provided with the conical aperture l and with the slot II, and the screw G, passing through said slot and loosely attaching said bottle stop to said support, substantially as I and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two snhscribing witnesses.

LEVI M. DEVORE.

Wit nesscs:

C. V. }RAIIAM, J. A. GRAIN.

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