Improved Apparatus for Drawing Corks.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left 28th May 1889-Accepted. 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Drawing Corks.
GEORGE STEGMANN 64 St. Johns Road, London S.W. in the county of Surrey
Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The chief parts of the machine are as follows:-A standard with suitable base,
carrying a pair of movable jaws with eccentric slots actuated by two pins on a disc
plate to which is attached a handle with spring to act as Ratchet stop on a toothed
quadrant which is fixed to Standard Corkscrew working through head of Standard by
means of combined right and left hand screw actuated by small hand wheel attached
or bevil gearing.
The various parts to be of Iron, Steel Gun-metal or suitable material.
The standard is intended to be fixed on edge of counter, table, or the like in a
perpendicular or oblique position.
An upward movement of handle opens the movable jaws, depressing handle closes
jaws and holds bottle securely whilst cork is withdrawn by a continuous circular
motion of corkscrew.
Dated this 30th day of August 1888.
GEORGE STEGMANN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Drawing Corks.
GEORGE STEGMANN of 64 St. Johns Road, Clapham Junction London S.W. in the
County of Surrey Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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The objects of this invention are Firstly, that the corks of bottles are more quickly
and easily drawn, and Secondly the danger of a bottle bursting in the hand is entirely
obviated.
And in order that my invention and the manner of performing the same may be
properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings, to be herein-
after referred to, The various parts shewn on these drawings are lettered the same in
each view as follows
a a a, Standard frame.
b b, Bevil wheels.
c, Spindle.
Slotted portion of do.
Concave screw on do.
c3 Fixed pin engaging in do.
c' Corkscrew.
dd, Movable jaws.
e, Actuating lever.
f, Box containing spring.
99, Slots in movable jaws.
, Pins in actuating lever.
i, Disc portion of lever.
The objects mentioned I attain
Firstly, by attaching an ordinary corkscrew, c, solidly to the end of a vertical
spindle, c, Rotary motion to this spindle is imparted by means of a pair of smalj

page_text: bevil wheels, bb, or an ordinary crank handle, or hand wheel, may be used direct
without bevil gearing.
The upper portion of spindle is slotted, c¹, and slides freely up and down through
the bevil wheel, b, on a feather piece fixed on that wheel.
The reciprocating notion necessary for drawing cork is attained by means of a
combined right and left hand thread cut on one portion of the aforesaid spindle, c²,
engaging with the end of a fixed pin, c³.
The use of this right and left hand thread causes the up and down travel of spindle
on a circular motion being imparted to the spindle, continuous in one direction.
Secondly, To hold the bottle automatically whilst the cork is being drawn I employ
two movable jaws, dd, these are loosely pinned at. their top ends, and have each
a. slot, gg, in which engage the projecting pins, hh, of a pivotted lever, e.
This lever may be fitted with the handle on either side of machine.
A motion of lever opens the jaws, and, after the head of bottle is inserted, the jaws
are automatically closed by means of an ordinary spring, at f, operating on the
pivotted lever, e, and the bottle is thus securely held while the cork is being drawn by
the combined rotary and reciprocating, motions of the screw spindle, c.
The whole of this gearing is mounted on a strong standard frame, a a a, with
suitable base, and intended to be fixed on edge of Counter, Table, or the like, in a
perpendicular or oblique position as may be found desirable.
The various parts to be of Iron, Steel, Gun-metal, or other suitable material.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine complete.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same.
Fig.
3 is a front elevation of spindle, c, showing; the top length of same slotted, c¹,
to engage with bevil wheel, b, centre portion with right and left hand screw thread cut
on same, c², and bottom portion consisting of ordinary corkscrew, c', the whole forming
one solid spindle.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the two movable jaws, d d with the pivotted lever e
and actuating pins h h dotted in.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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(1) The entire novelty of the machine as a whole, devised and used for the purpose
of drawing corks from bottles.
(2) Particularly the combination of parts in spindle c.
(3) And the original design and mode of working movable jaws, d d, with the
spring, at, acting in conjunction with same for holding bottle.
Dated this 28th day of May 1889.
GEORGE STEGMANN.