An Improved Combined Corkscrew and Valve for use with Aerated Liquors and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Corkscrew and Valve for use with Aerated
Liquors and the like.
I, CHARLES SOULIER of Boulevard Henri IV Paris in the Republic of France
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a cork extractor or corkscrew which is
hollow and provided with a valve or cock so that the same may be used as a cork-
screw in the usual manner or when aerated or gaseous liquids are contained in the
bottles, may be used as a cock or valve from emptying the liquid from the bottles
as and when desired without withdrawal of the cork.
The improved device consists of a tube screw threaded on its outer side and
terminating at one end in a corkscrew of the usual form which closes the end of
the tube and forms a continuation thereof. Near this end of the tube the latter is
provided with lateral holes. The tube is screwed at the other end into a cross head
which forms the handle of the corkscrew and on the upper side of the cross head
is an orifice in line with the tube. The cross head carries a valve held in
place by a spring and at one end of the cross head is a projecting plunger or
knob by pressure on which the valve is moved to unclose the upper end of the
tube and allow the liquid to escape from the aforesaid orifice, the bottle being held
mouth downwards.
In place of a spring valve, a rotary perforated plug may be employed as in
ordinary taps.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Corkscrew and Valve for use with Aerated
Liquors and the like.
I, CHARLES SOULIER of Boulevard Henri IV, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Manufacturer, 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 a cork extractor or corkscrew which is
hollow and provided with a valve or cock so that the same may be used as a cork-
screw in the usual manner or when aerated or gaseous liquids are contained in the
bottles, may be used as a cock or valve for emptying the liquid from the bottles as
and when desired without withdrawal of the cork.
The improved device consists of a tube screw threaded on its outer side and
terminating at one end in a cork-screw of the usual form which closes the end of
the tube and forms a continuation thereof. Near this end of the tube the latter is
provided with lateral holes. The tube is screwed at the other end into a cross
head which forms the handle of the corkscrew and on the upper side of the cross
head is an orifice in line with the tube. The cross head carries a valve held in
place by a spring and at one end of the cross head is a projecting plunger or knob
by pressure on which the valve is moved to unclose the upper end of the tube and
allow the liquid to escape from the aforesaid orifice, the bottle being held mouth
downwards.
In place of a spring valve, a rotary perforated plug may be employed as in
ordinary taps.

page_text: The annexed drawings show various forms of the valve corkscrew.
Fig. 1 is an exterior view of the corkscrew already driven through the cork its
lower extremity being below the cork for communication with the liquid.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof.
Fig. 3 a vertical section of a modified form.
Fig. 4 a similar section on line 4, 4 Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 exterior view of a simplified rotary plug valve corkscrew.
Fig. 6 vertical section thereof (closed).
Fig. 7 vertical section thereof (open).
The principal part of the present invention is the hollow shaft A, which on its
lower extremity is furnished with an ordinary helicoidal corkscrew B screwed
therein and in consequence thereof capable of being replaced if necessary.
Immediately above this corkscrew B is the beginning of the interior passage A¹
and in the tube A are provided perforations C in sufficient number that their area
of opening is twice as great as the cross sectional area of the passage A'. Around.
the shaft A is a helical thread D similar to that on a wood-screw, arranged so as to
penetrate into the cork E, while the corkscrew B is still firmly engaged in the
cork. The screw D is intended to penetrate so far that the enlarged portion F of
the shaft A presses firmly upon the cork E, which at the same time is compressed
by means of the ring G so as to render impossible any escaping of gas alongside
the shaft A. The interior passage is continued up into the handle, traversing the
latter to the orifice P, which is upon the upper part, and through which the liquid
flows out. In the handle there is enclosed the valve and its mechanism, the closing
being effected either by means of an automatic valve (Figs. 1. and 2) or an ordinary
plug cock (Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7).
The drawings annexed to this Specification illustrate sufficiently the different
constructions of valve and mode of operation.
Figs. 1 and 2 show an automatic valve with spring. The valve plug H furnished
with two washers of caoutchouc R R on its extremities is moved by the pin I,
which is displaced by pressure exerted on the head J on which it is fixed. This
displacement of the valve H leaves the passage A' open. As soon as the pressure
on the head J ceases the compressed spring Q returns the valve.
A washer is arranged at K to prevent the escape of gas around the pin of the
valve.
The Figures 3 and 4 show the valve-corkscrew with an ordinary rotary plug.
The Figures 5, 6 and 7 show a corkscrew with an ordinary rotary cock, the
tube A of which is made in one piece with the one part L of the handle of the
corkscrew, the plug N which is prolonged to form the other part of the handle
revolves in a socket in which it is held by a screw a engaging in a slot b around the
plug.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A. hollow corkscrew adapted to serve as a faucet or as an extractor, having
at the end of the hollow screw-threaded shaft A a helicoidal corkscrew B.
2. A corkscrew for the purposes set forth having a spring actuated valve arranged
and constructed substantially as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
3. A corkscrew for the purposes set forth having a rotary plug valve constructed
and arranged substantially as described with reference to Figs. 5, 6 and 7.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1892.
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HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.