Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Corks from Bottles and like Containers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1897- Accepted, 18th Sept., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Corks from Bottles and
like Containers.
Wo JOHN RELF of 40 Duke Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster,
Bottler, and ALPRED GLOVER of 68 Liffey Street Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster, Gasfitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide apparatus for drawing corks from
bottles or like containers which shall be simple in construction, efficient in action
and which shall allow of greater facility in manipulation than has been possible
hitherto.
For these purposes we secure to a stand or frame a block forming a nut through
which a corkscrew attached to or forming one end of a spindle can work. The
other end of the said spindle is formed with a thread or threads of opposite pitch
to the corkscrew. A collar free to slide in guides which prevent rotation is provided
with a pin or pins or ball bearings which engage with the thread or threads on the
spindle and cause such spindle to rotato when the said collar is moved along tho
guides by means of a lever connected with such collar thus causing the corkscrew
to screw through its block aud into the cork of a bottle held against such block.
The said lever also actuates a sleeve or mouthpiece surrounding the said block so
as to push away the bottle from the block and from the cork which is retained by
the corkscrew. On a reverse motion of the lever the spindle rotates in the opposite
direction and withdraws the corkscrew from the cork, and the lever also is
arranged to retract the pushing off sleeve.
A groove or grooves, or thread or threads, is or are provided in or on the spindle
into which the pin or ball bearing in the collar slides so as to hold the spindle
stationary whilst the pushing off sleeve is being actuated.
Dated the 10th day of Santambon 1900
W. B. JOHNSON,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Drawing Corks from Bottles and
like Containers.
We JOHN RELF of 40, Duke Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancashire,
Bottler and ALFRED GLOVER of 68, Liffey Street, Liverpool in the County of
Lancashire, Gas Fitter 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide apparatus for drawing corks from

page_text: bottles or like containers which shall be simple in construction, efficient in action
and shall allow of greater facility in manipulation than has been possible hitherto.
For these purposes we secure to a stand or frame A a block forming a nut B
through which a corkscrew C attached to or forming one end of a spindle D
can work.
The other end of the said spindle D is formed with a thread or threads of opposite
pitch to the corkscrew C. A collar F free to slide in guides which prevents
rotation is provided with a pin or ball bearings which engage with the thread or
threads on the spindle D and cause such spindle D to rotate when tho said collar F
is moved along the guides G by means of a lever H connected with such collar
thus causing the corkscrew C to screw through its block B and into the cork of a
bottle held against such block B.
The said lever I also actuates a sleeve I or mouthpiece surrounding the said
block B so as to push away the bottle from the b'ock B and from the cork which
is retained by the corkscrew C by means of lover H coming in contact with side
stops ou collar marked L in sleeve I for advancing the pushing off sleeve I.
On a reverso motion of the lever H the spindle D rotates in the opposite direction
and withdraws the corkscrew C from the cork and the lever H is also arranged to
retract the pushing off sleeve I by means of side stops on collar marked F engaging
with the top of a slot G. in the sleeve I.
A straight groove narked K or grooves or threads E is or are provided in or on
the spindle D into which the pin or ball bearings in the collar F slides so as to hold
the spindle D stationary by means of collar F coming down into straight groove
marked K whilst the pushing off sleeve I is being actuated by collar L.
The apparatus is so arranged with a loose block B by means of the side screws
marked J so as to be easily removed without taking the machine to pieces to replace
the corkscrew C which screws into one cud of grooved spindle D in case of screw
breaking.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the samo is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
A single spiral, or straight right and left handed grooved or threaded spindle
with sliding collar with ball or pin bearings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.
JOHN RELF.
ALFRED GLOVER.