US752776A - Bottle-opener - Google Patents

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N0. 752,776. PATENTBD FEB. 23, 1904.:

F. B. HQRTON.

BOTTLE OPENER.-

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

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' cap inconvenience and annoyance have been UNITED STATES Patented February 23, 1904:

PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK B. HORTON, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-OPENER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of LettersPatent N0. 752,776, dated February 23, 19.04.

Application filed August 20, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. HORTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at'Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachu setts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Openers; 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.

The present invention relates to an improvement in bottle-openers, and more particularly to an improvement in devices for removing and replacing the caps of wide-mouthed bottlleis, such as paper-capped milk-bottles or the As milk bottles are very generally constructed the wide mouths are provided with a shoulder slightly below the top of the bottle from which the walls of the bottle contract upwardly to thetop. After the bottle has been filled it is closed by means of a pasteboard cap slightly larger than the mouth of the bottle, which is pressed through the mouth down upon the shoulder, the tapering walls of the mouth above the shoulder serving to hold the cap in place. In removing this paper experienced because of the liability of the cap to yield suddenly under the pressure of the instrument employed to remove it or because of the difliculty of getting at the cap with the ordinary implements at hand, all of which were. objectionable because of the frequent spattering and spilling of the contents of the bottle. Furthermore, it is frequently desired after removing the cap from a bottle and pouring out a portion of its contents to replace the cap in the bottle, so as to preserve the remainder of the contents until the need therefor arises. After a cap has been removed in the ordinary manner it is so frequently torn or injured that its further use is impossible.

The object of my invention is to produce a device for removing and replacing such bottle-caps without spattering the contents or such injury to the cap ;as to prevent the same from being replaced to preserve the contents of the bottle until it shall be needed.

To the above ends the present invention Serial No, 120.322. (No model.)

,consists in the device hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred form of my invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; and Fig. 3 is a view showing the device in place in the cap of the bottle, 7

the bottle and cap being shown in vertical section.

In the drawings the handle 1 consists of two coils of wire, one end of the Wire extending downwardly and then substantially at right angles to the point or prong 2, which is adapted to pass through the cap 3 and engage the under side of the same. The prong'2 has a pointed and downwardly-inclined end, so that when it is pressed against the top of the cap 3 it penetrates the same and then slides along until the vertical portion 4 engages the side of the hole.

The device thus far described in and of itself constitutes a complete and operative bottleopener, and my invention viewed in its broader aspects contemplates and includes such or equivalent construction. It will be observed, however, that this device as thus far described could not conveniently be used for replacing the cap upon the bottle. I prefer, therefore, to employ in connection therewith means for engaging the upper surface of the cap near its periphery, so that the cap may be held and retained between such means and the prong underneath and easily replaced. To the above end, therefore, I have extended the end 5 of the handle-coil around the vertical member 4 and thence spirally outward,as

shown best in Fig. 2, until the periphery of the disk-like spiral 6 thus formed is ofsuch size as to engage the upper side of the cap near its periphery. It will be observed that the spiral 6 is resilient and that the cap is engaged and held between the prong and the spiral with elastic pressure. The portion of the edge of the spiral opposite the'prong conduces to the easy insertion of the prong in the cap without liability of tearing the same during insertion of the prong or during the removal of the cap and at the same time holds the cap from accidental displacement when it is out of the bottle.

My invention contemplates a cap-remover having a handle, a prong to be inserted through and to engage the under side of the cap, and means for yieldingly engaging the upper side of the cap opposite the prong. My invention also contemplates a cap remover and replacer having means for penetrating and engaging the under side of the cap and cooperating means for engaging the upper side of the cap near the periphery of the same, so that the cap may be replaced after it has been removed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A bottle-cap remover and replacer having a handle, a prong to penetrate the cap and ing a prong to penetrate the cap and engage the under side of the same, and a substantially circular member resiliently connected to the prong and engaging the upper side of the cap near its periphery.

3. A bottle-cap remover and replacer formed of a single piece of wire, the intermediate portion of the wire being bent to form a handle, one end of the wire being bent to the form of a hook or prong, and the other end being bent to the formof a spiral adjacent to the hook and in a plane substantially parallel thereto, substantially as described.

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

FREDERICK B. HORTON.

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