New or Improved Hand Tool Used in Wiring Bottle Mouths in order to Secure Corks therein, and applicable also for Releasing the Wire and Removing Corks from said Bottle Mouths.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1897-Accepted, 26th June, 1897
New or Improved Hand Tool Used in Wiring Bottle Mouths in
order to Secure Corks therein, and applicable also for Releasing
the Wire and Removing Corks from said Bottle Mouths.
1 JOHN BUNTING of Victoria Buildings, Clay Cross, near Chesterfield in the
County of Derby, Manager for Hodgkinson and Co. Aerated Water Manu-
facturers and Hop Bitter Brewers do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
1 ..
My present invention relates to a new or improved tool used in wiring bottle
mouths in order to secure corks therein applicable also for releasing the wire, and
removing corks from said bottle months, and the object thereof is to combine
simple and compact mechanism whereby a handy tool is secured for pressing the
wire around the bottle neck and over the cork, and finally by an automatic action
expeditiously twisting the wire into secure position, and also so that the same tool
may be used for expeditiously undoing said wire and removing the cork when.
required; to attain which
I construct and arrange a hand tool and operate the same substantially as herein-
after described with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings which show a
typical form of my improved hand wire tool but which it will be obvious may be
modified in shape or form or varied in size as desired without departing from the
combination forming the essential particulars of my invention.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved hand tool used for the
purpose
before described.
Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation taken on broken line a a and Fig. 3 is a cross
sectional elevation taken on line bb of said Fig. 1, and
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hand tool showing the hands of an operator
using the same in wiring over a cork and around the mouth of an ordinary ginger
beer bottle. Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each
view.
My said improved tool is arranged with a hollow handle A, within the end of
which is secured a nut B, through and into which works a screw C, having one
end in the form of a hook c' and the other a disc or head c².
The part of screw C extending within the handle A is surrounded by a spiral
spring D, one end of which bears against the head and the other end against the
face of nut B.
The part of screw C which extends on the outside of handle A receives a thumb
or grip piece H which is secured firmly thereto, and into this thumb or grip piece-
at the side or face opposite the screw is inserted and made secure the hook cl
aforesaid.
The outer surface of the handle A may have a recess a' formed in it within which
may be hinged a corkscrew E as shown Figs. 1 and 2.
When wiring bottle mouths for securing corks therein the said tool is operated
as follows.
I take the connected angles of the looped wire W and place them at back
part of bottle J close to underside of flange of bottle neck and this I hold firmly
with a finger of the left hand M. I then take the tool in the right hand N place

page_text: the hook in the loops w¹ of the wire and grip tightly the thumb or grip piece H
draw the wire over the cork K and down to the under flange of bottle neck so that
the wire comes neatly down and all around the bottle neck. I then lower the handle A
to an angle of about 45° with the bottle and simultaneously with the liberation of
the grip or thumb piece 'H I pull the handle A with the right hand when the wire
becomes neatly twisted and secured to neck of bottle.
When using the tool for unwiring place the hook c' in the small loop. of twisted
wire W and pull the handle A, when the wire becomes at once liberated, and when
there is not sufficient pressure within the bottle J to force out the cork K the
corkscrew E may be used in the ordinary way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is.
1. In a hand tool used in wiring bottle months in order to secure corks therein
and applicable also for releasing the wire for the removal' of said corks, the
combination of a hollow handle A, nut B and screw C, with thumb grip H and
hook e spiral spring D substantially as described and illustrated.
2. The combination of a cork screw E with the handle A of the said tool
substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of April 1897
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Barnsley, Patent Agent.