US452625A - Cork-puller - Google Patents

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E. WALKER. CORK FULLER (No Model.)

Patented May 19,1891.

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IN WALKER, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORK-FULLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,625, dated May 19, 1891, Application filed May 1, 1889- Serial No; 309,309. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN IVALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cork-Pullers; 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 113' appertains to make and use the same, ref erence being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in the improvements in cork-pullers hereinafter set forth and ex: plained, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the drawing is a perspective view of my improved cork-puller, portions thereof being broken away, so as to show the mechanism thereof.

In the construction of my invention shown, A is the upright part of the frame of the machine, and B the base, by meanswhereof it may be'secured to a table. The lower end 0 of the upright portion is made of suitable size and shape to engage with the top of a bottleneck, above which point I make a chamber D, of sufficient size and height to receive a cork after it is extracted. Above the chamber D the frame is contracted to a sufficient size to admit of a vertical opening being bored therein to fit the stem E of the corkscrew E. On the upper end of the stem E a crank F is secured for operating the screw E.

Above the base B, I make an oblong chamber G. In the sides H of this chamber I make slots 1, which form the bearings for a bellcrank lever J K, this lever being secured in place, preferably, by means of a removable inclined plate L, which also serves as a cover for a portion of the chamber G and as a name plate. The short arm K of the bell-crank lever is within the chamber G when the lever is in place, and the long arm J thereof extends downward on the outside of one of the sides II of the chamber G and serves as an operating-handle. To the end of the short arm K of the bell-crank-lever I pivot a vertically-inclined push-bar M, which extends through an opening N in the top of the chamber G upward to the upper end of the corkscrew-stem E, where it is provided with a lateral extension 0, having an elongated opening therein adapted to pass over the upper end of the corkscrew-stem to allow for the upward and lateral movement of the push-bar M when raised, where it is secured between a collar P, secured on the stem E, and the hubf of the crank F, so that the raising and lowering of the push-bar M moves the corkscrew E with it.

In operation the neck of a bottle is placed against the lower end C of the chamber D. The screw E is then inserted into the cork a sufficient distance by turning the crank F. The operator then grasps the long arm J of the bell-crank lever and raises it, which causes the push-bar M to raise the stem E and the corkscrew E with the crank thereon up into the chamber D, thus drawing the cork from the bottle. A

I am aware of the patents of Hurley, Nos.

'M having an oscillating movement,which entirely does away with the long sliding sleeves surrounding the corkscrew-stem and the slotted arms or gears thereon,with which the op crating-lever connects for moving the same, and also doing away with moving parts liable to become fouled from the overflow of bottles being uncorked therewith.

Having thus described my invention so as to enable others to makeand use the same, what I-claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination, in a cork-puller, of a corkscrew-stem mounted in a frame so as to slide vertically therein and having a crank on the upper end thereof, and a bell-crank lever mounted in the base of said frame,with a link provided with an elongated slot or hole in its upper end, haviu g a vertical and lateral movement extending from one of the arms of the bell-crank lever to and engaging with the upper end of the corkscrew-stem by means of said elongated hole in the upper end of the said link, substantially as and for the punl the eorkserew-ste1nE, which passes through pose set forth 1 an elongated hole in the upper end of said 2. The combination, in a cork-puller, of a t link M to allow for the movement of the link snpporting-frame A B, a corkscrew-stem E, t M thereon, substantially as and for the pur- 5 mounted in the upright portion A thereof, l pose set forth.

and a chamber G in the base B of the frame, i In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in having slots I I in the sides thereof, with a i presence of two witnesses.

bell-crank lever J K, mounted in said slots I I, and a link M, having a vertical and lateral EDWIN \VALKER. to movement, the lower end of which link is piv- Witnesses:

oted to the short arm K of said bell-erank le- 1 T. A. THOMAS,

ver and having its upper end connected with I ll. .I. CURTZE.

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