US824807A - Cork-extractor. - Google Patents

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PATBNIBD JULY 3' H.- w. Hons. CORK EXTRAGTOR. APPLIOATIOI FILED 001. 21. 10015..

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imirnn STATES PATENT rricn BARRY W. NOYES, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES A. MAOLEOD, OF ORANGE, CONNECTICUT, TRUSTEE.

CORK-EXTRACTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jury 3, 1906.

Application filed October 21, 1905. Serial No. 283,831.

To all whom it 11211.." 1 concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY WV. NOYES, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cork-Extractors; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view of a cork-extractor constructed in accordance with my invention with the parts intheir closed position, the screw being also shown open in broken lines; Fig. 2, a side view showing the device as engaged with a cork in the neck of a bottle and in the position of having partially removed the cork from the bottle; Fig. 3, a front view of a corkscrew having its plate and ears formed from wire; Fig. 4, a side view of the same, showing the parts in the operating posit-ion, as in Fig. 2.

This invention relates to an improvement in cork-extractors, and particularly to that class which is provided with a fulcrum and adapted to have a screw folded into a looplike handle, so that the device may be conveniently carried in the pocket, and is an im provement on the invention set forth in United States Patent No. 793,318, granted to me June 2-7, 1905.

One object of the invention is to arrange the fulcrum so that as it is pushed out against the screw it will force the screw toward its open position, thus providing convenient means for turning the screw to its open position and admitting of the use of a longer screw.

A further object is to provide a fulcrum which will give an extensive bearing upon the neck of a bottle when the device is in use; and the invention consists in a cork-extrac tor having certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I employ a loop-like handle formed from a strip of metal the sides 2 and 3 forming a loop, while the ends 4 and 5 are brought together, the metal having more or less elasticity. Between the ends 4 and 5 the shank 6 of a corkscrew 7 is pivoted, the inner faces of the ends 4 5 being recessed to closely fit around the shank 6, so as to hold the screw in its open and closed po sitions. Pivoted between the sides 2 3 and near the point where the sides merge into the 'ends 4 5 is a plate 8, which, as shown in Figs.

1 and 2 of the drawings, is formed from sheet metal and preferably bowed transversely. This plate corresponds substantially in width to the space between the sides 2 3 and about midway of its length is provided on opposite sides with ears 9 10, which bow outward, so

as to rest upon the edges of the sides 2 3, the

extent of projection of the ears 9 10 being about the same as the width of the metal from which the sides 2 3 are formed, so that when the ears bear upon one edge of the sides 2 3 the plate 8 will be substantially flush with the opposite edges. The screw 7 is adapted to pass between the ears 9 10 and rest upon the plate 8 between them, thus admitting of the use of a long screw. If it is desired to open the screw, the plate 8 may be forced outward against the screw, and the point of the screw will ride upon the plate and be turned outward thereby, so that the screw can be readily brought to an open position without taking hold of the screw itself. By transversely bowing the plate it permits the use of a larger screw without increasing the width of the metal from which the loop is formed. A further advantage of bowing the plate is that the outer end which bears against the upper edge of a bottle being curved will permit the ears to pass to a greater extent over the upper edge of the bottle. The use of screws of this character are too well known to require description further than to say that after the screw has been turned into a cork the ears 9 and 10 rest upon the top of the neck of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, forming a fulcrum for the handle to raise the screw and withdraw the cork.

Preferably and as herein shown the edges of the cars which bear upon the neck of the bottle are tapered, so as to secure a firm grip upon the upper edge of the neck of the bottle. Instead of forming the plate 8 from sheet metal, as above described, it may be formed from wire, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, in which case a piece of wire is doubled and its ends 11 bent outward through holes formed for them in the sides 2 and 3 at a point where the plate would be pivoted. From the ends the sides extend toward each other, so as to nearly meet and form a bearing for the screw. Beyond this point they are bent outward, forming ears 12, corresponding in function to the ears 9 and 10. Beyond the ears the central portion ol the wire forms a loop 13, which protects the screw and also has the same effect as a bowed plate in. permitting the ears 12 to be set over the upper edge of the neck of a bottle. By forcing the loop 13 outward the screw bearing upon the contracted portion of the wire adjacent to the ears 12 will be turned downward in the same manner as is the screw when a solid plate employed. Thus in either construction the screw is fully protected when in the closed position, may be turned to an open position by the outward movement of the plate, and the ears permitted. to fully engage with. the upper edge of the neck of a bottle.

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

1. A cork-extractor comprising; a loop-like handle having substantially parallel sides contracted at their outer ends, a corkscrew pivoted between the said outer ends and adapted to fold into the handle, and a plate pivoted at one end between the sides of the said. handle within the loop, said plate corresponding in width to the width of said loop and formed on opposite sides with. ears adapted to bear on opposite edges of the loop and form a fulcrum to bear upon the neck of the bottle.

2. A cork-extractor comprising a loop-like handle having substantially parallel sides contracted at their outer ends, a corkscrew pivoted between said outer ends and adapted to fold in-Lo the handle, and a plate pivoted at one end between tl1 sides of the said handle within the loop, said plate corresponding in width to the width of the loop and transversely bowed and formed on opposite sides th bowed ears adapted to bear upon opposite edges of the loop when in a closed position and to form a fulcrum adapted to bear upon the neck of a bottle, substantially as described.

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

HARRY \V. N OYES.

ld itnesses FREDERIC C. EARLE, CLARA L. Venn.

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