US600424A - Cork-puller - Google Patents

Description

(No Model) F. L. JOHNSON.

CORK FULLER.

No. 600,424. Patented Mar. 8, 1898.

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FRANKLIN L. JOHNSON, OF VALLEY SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA.

CORK-PULLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,424, dated March 8, 1898.

Application filed October 28, 1897. Serial N0. 656,657. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN L. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Valley Springs, in the county of Calaveras and State of California, 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 it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cork-pullers, its object being to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient tool for extracting corks from bottles and analogous liquid-receptacles.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved corkpuller; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section thereof; Fig. 3, a cross-section of the same, and Fig. 4: a perspective view showing a modified form of cork-puller.

The cork-puller comprises a comparatively broad, approximately spoon-shaped blade 1, formed at one side with a recess or concavity 2 and having its opposite side rounded or convex-shaped, the blade thus being concavoconvex in cross-section for the greater portion of its length. The side edges 2 of the blade are broad and blunt to prevent cutting or bruising of the cork and converge at the lower end of the blade and form a wedging or entering point extremity 3, and the concaved side or face of said blade is beveled off, as at 4:, from the tip of the point upwardly to and beyond the lower edge of the concavity, thereby forming a guiding-groove 5.

A handle 6 is fitted on the upper end of the shank 7 of the blade. This handle may be made rigid or detachable or adapted to fold in order that the cork-puller may be conveniently carried in the pocket.

The operation is as follows: The wedging or entering point of the blade is inserted between the bottle-neck and cork, with its concaved side facing the latter and pushed down until the shoulder 5 has been forced below the cork. During this operation the cork first yields or gives and then expands into the concavity 2, While the side edges of the blade press on diametrically opposite sides thereof. The cork is thus gripped firmly and may be readily and conveniently withdrawn by the tool by giving it an upward and lateral movement to the right or left.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the blade is formed with an inclined lug or shoulder 8, which is adapted to engage the lower end of the cork in extracting, as Will be readily understood.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a cork-puller which is simple in construction and that by its use corks may be Withdrawn with facility and without the necessity of puncturing or otherwise mutilating the same.

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

1. A cork-puller,comprising a spoon-shaped blade formed with a convexed outer side, and a concaved inner side having broad blunt side edges converging to areduced shank at its upper end and a wedging-point at its lower end, the said wedging-point being beveled from its tip to the edge of the concavity, and a handle attached to said shank, substantially as described.

2. A cork-puller,comprising a spoon-shaped blade formed with a convexed outer side and a concaved inner side having broad, blunt side edges converging to a reduced shank at its upper end and a wedging-point at its lower end, the said wedging-point being beveled from its tip to the edge of the concavity and lying wholly within the plane of said side edges, substantially as described.

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

FRANKLIN L. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

J AMES Q. CLARK, J. F. PAULK.

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