US474788A - Device for extracting corks - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

' S. D. WEBB.

"DEVICE FOR EXTRAGTING GORKS.

No. 474,788. Patented May 10, 1892.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets- Sheet 2. S D WEBB DEVICE FOR EXTRAGTING GORKS.

No. 474,788. Patented May 10, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL D. I/VEBB, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF NINETEEN TWENTY-FOURTHS TO ANDREW B. WEBB, MARTIN V. WEBB, AND P. A. DARNEILLE, OF SAME PLACE. V

DEVICE FOR EXTRACTING CORKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 474,788, dated May 10, 1892.

Application filed February 9, 1892. Serial'No. 420,889. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: flat portion A, with screw-holes a therein, and

Be it known that I, SAMUEL D. WEBB. a citifrom which base extends an arm B, preferzen of the United States, and a resident of ably formed integral with said base, and on Washington, District of Columbia, have inthe end of this arm is formed or otherwise vented new and useful Improvements in Deconnected a cylindrical case C, in which the 5 vices for Extracting Corks; and I do hereby operating parts hereinafter referred to are declare the following to be a full, clear, and mounted. exact description of said invention, reference The upper end of the case C, and on each being had to the accompanying drawings, and side at points diametrically opposite each to the letters of reference marked thereon, other, is provided with grooves C, and mountwhich form a part of this specification. ed to slide within the caseis a double-threaded This invention relates to improvements in nut D, engaged with the case through the devices for extracting corks from bottles, jugs, slots by means of screw heads or lugs (1, seand similar vessels. cured to the nut, and which lugs are adapted I5 The object of my invention is to provide a to move back and forth in the grooves or slots. device by which theneck of the bottle or other The casing C at the upper ends of the article is clasped and held by mechanical grooves or enlarged portions C and m is promeans while the cork is extracted, thus obvivided with apertures 0", through which the ating any liability of cutting the operators screws are passed and secured to the nut D 20 hands by reason of splitting the neck of the and disk N. Also mounted in the case and b ttl below the guide is a toothed plunger E, hav- Referring to -the drawings, Figure 1 is a ing the teeth e on one side. Mounted within front elevation of the device with the handle this toothed plunger or cylindrical rack E is and clamping-jaws in position and the exa double-threaded screw G, secured thereto 2 5 tractingscrew in the position it takes when as described in the Letters Patent before rein the cork in the neck of the bottle. Fig. 2 ferred to, and connected to the doubleis alsoafront elevation with the handle raised threaded screw G is the cork-worm H, of a and the clamping-jaws open to receive the single thread or twist, the pitch of the single neck of the bottle. Fig. 3 is a side view of thread being equal to the pitch of the double- 30 the device. Fig.4 is a vertical sectional view threaded screw, so that one revolution of the taken on the line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a top screw will impart one revolution to the corkor plan View of the lower portion of the clampworm. ing device, taken on the line to roof Fig. 2 and Formed with or otherwise connected to the showing the spring for opening the clamping stationary case and projecting rearwardly 3 5 device. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view therefrom 1s a bearing-lug Z, and mounted through the casing, taken on the line .2 z of therein is a shaft K, carrying on one end an Fig. 4, showing the operating parts in their operating-lever L and on the other a see;- lowest position. mental toothed rack M to engage the cylin- Myinvention relates more especially to imdrical rack E, the cylindrical case being cut 40 provements in cork-extractors for which apopen or slotted at the proper point to permit plications were filed March 14, 1890, Serial No. such engagement. 343,918, by E. J Lumley, George T. Jacobs, The cylindrical case at its lower end .is and S. D. Webb, and upon which Letters Patmade flaring, and slightly above the liaring ent were issued March 15, 1892, No. 471,057, portion the case is provided with elongated 5 and application filed November 10, 1890, Segrooves m, said grooves being arranged op- 5 rial No. 370,888, by Samuel D. Webb and posite each other, as in the case of the grooves George T. Jacobs, for attachments for cork- C, and being arranged preferably in line t t with said grooves or slots, and mounted to A base by which the device is secured to move within the case is a disk N, having a cen- 50 the table, shelf, or other point consists of the tral perforation for the passage of the cork I00 grooves O and m.

worm. This disk N is arranged to move within the groovesm through lugs connected therewith in the same manner as described in reference to the lugs 01 for connecting the nut D with the case.

For the purpose of holding the bottle or other vessel without having the operator to clasp the same with his hands, and in which this improvement consists, I secure to the under side of the main supporting-standard B, by means of screw f, separable clamps or jaws 0, said jaws being provided on their front ends with lugs g and on the inner side thereof with a spring at for throwing the jaws open when the same are released by raising of the operating-handle.

A are levers pivoted near their centers to the casing G on each side of the slot A the lower ends of said levers being adapted to engage the lugs g on the jaws O. The upper ends of the levers A are flared outward to receive and guide the operating-wedge, which will now be more fully described.

A is a wedge-shaped lug cast with or otherwise secured to the toothed plunger and travels with the same in the slot A to open the upper ends of the levers A and close the lower ends of the same against the lugs g on the clamps O. The inside of the clamps above the spring may be lined with rubber, as shown at B, Fig. 5, so that the clamps are adapted to fit the neck of bottles of different sizes. Furthermore, the levers A being pivoted a rising-and-falling motion of the same is prevented, and the device is adapted for long as well as for short necked bottles.

On the outer end of the bearing-lug Z is formed a segmental flange 1', which forms a stop for the operating-lever L and prevents the same from being'thrown too far either in its upward or downward movement.

The operation of the device is as follows: When it is desired to draw acork, the device stands in such a position that the cork-worm is drawn within the cylindrical case with the operating-leverin a vertical position and with the lugs or screws d at the upper ends of the In this position the bottle is held up into the flaring mouth of the case and between the jaws 0, the lever is pulled downward, and as the double-threaded nut is held stationary the action of the segmental rack of the toothed rack will carry the plunger downward, and by which means causes the jaws to close and said not to impart a revolving movement to the double screw and to the cork-worm and cause the same to be forced into the cork. In the first movement downward of the plunger the point of the wedge carried thereby is forced between the levers, forcing their upper ends apart and causing the lower ends to act against the lugs g on the clamps 0, overcoming the tension of the spring at, which acts normally to hold the jaws open and closing the clamps around the neck of the bottle during the entire downward and return movement of the plunger both in forcing the worm into and withdrawing the cork and stripping the same. In the reverse movement of the lever theplunger will be carried upward, in which movement the lugs d will be free to travel through the grooves Oand mto the upper ends thereof, which acts to extract or draw the cork from the bottle, in which movement the disk N has been carried, so that the lugs d have reached the upper ends of the slot m. A continued upward movement of the lever carries the plunger still farther upward, and as the nut D is held fast from turning the double screw is again caused to be revolved in a reverse direction to that when engaging the cork and by the engagement of the cork with the disk N to withdraw the cork or discharge the same'therefrom.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cork-extractor, the pivoted spring clamping-jaws adapted to grasp the neck of the bottle, levers pivoted to the main body of the extractor to engage the jaws, and a reciprocating plunger carrying a lug to engage the levers and cause the same to close the clamping-jaws, substantially as described, whereby the neck of the bottleis grasped during the operation of engaging and drawing the cork and released at the completion of the operation, as set forth.

2. In a cork-extractor, the pivoted spring clamping-jaws, the lugs projecting therefrom, the levers pivoted centrally to the main body of the machine and with the lower ends to engage the lugs of the clamping-jaws, anda wedge-shaped lug carried by the plunger through a guide-slot in the main body of the extractor, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL D. WEBB.

I Vitnesses:

H. M. STERLING, L. W. SINSABAUGH.

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