An Improved Instrument for Severing the Wire and String retaining the Cork in Bottles of Sparkling Wines or Aerated Liquids.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd July, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument for Severing the Wire and String retaining
the Cork in Bottles of Sparkling Wines or Aerated Liquids.
I, REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co. Patent Agents of 18
Buckingham Street Strand W.C. London Civil Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Joseph Gérard
of Paris in the Republic of France, Manufacturer to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an improved instrument for severing
the wire and string which retains the cork in a bottle of sparkling wine or aerated
liquid.
The instrument has two handles with blades thereon, crossing each other and
pivoted by a pin or bolt in the usual way. The blades are crescent shaped at
their inner and their outer ends they overlap and are made of proper sharpness for
cutting wire, along their inner edges they are sharpened as knives for cutting the
string so that by putting this instrument around the cork a single act of pressure
severs the wire at both sides and also the string thus completely unfastening the
cork from the bottle in one motion.
The instrument may also be made with the outer ends of the blades simply to
meet as nippers or pincers which may or may not be sharp for the general cutting
of the wire or pulling the end from the bottle, in this case two movements are
required to completely sever the fastening, the wire being cut on the one side and
the strings severed during the first movement, and the wire cut on the other side
during the second movement.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1891.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Instrument for Severing the Wire and String retaining
the Cork in Bottles of Sparkling Wines or Aerated Liquids.
I REGINALD HADDAN of the firm of Herbert & Co., Patent Agents of 18
Buckingham Street Strand W.C. London, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Joseph Gérard of
Paris in the Republic of France, Manufacturer 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 an improved instrument for severing
the wire and string which retain the cork in a bottle of sparkling wine or aerated
liquid. The object is principally to enable the wire cutters to hold the end of wire
and also to provide for the quicker unfastening, by enabling the instrument to cut
all the wires and string at once.
The instrument has two handles with blades thereon, crossing each other and
pivoted by a pin or bolt in the usual way. The blades are crescent shaped at their
inner ends, and at their outer ends they overlap and are made of proper sharpness
for cutting wire; along their inner edges they are sharpened as knives for cutting
the string so that by putting this instrument around the cork, a single act of
pressure severs the wire at both sides and also the string, thus completely
unfastening the cork from the bottle in one motion.
The instrument may also be made with the outer ends of the blades simply to
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page_text: meet as nippers or pincers which may or may not be sharp for the general cutting
of the wire or pulling the end from the bottle, in this case two movements are
required to completely sever the fastening, the wire being cut on the one side
and the springs severed during the first movement, and the wire cut on the other
side during the second movement.
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The instrument may be made only as a cutter for cutting each wire or string
separately and for holding the end of wire to enable it to be pulled off the cork or
bottle.
In the drawings
Fig. 1 shows the last mentioned form of instrument in which the two shanks AB
are provided with the blades CE, the one blade E being thickened at D to be
against the outside edge of the other blade C at c when the instrument is closed to
form at this part nippers to grasp the end of the wire. a a are sharpened edges
for cutting wire or string.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the part A Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a similar view of the part B. The first described form of instrument
which encircles the cork is shown in Fig. 4 the blades being made to encircle the
cork and sharpened at C C. E F to sever the wire and also on their inside curved
surfaces between these points to sever the string.
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Figs. 5 and 6 are side views of the two parts of the instrument shown in Fig. 4.
The part G projects as shown in Fig. 5 to act with the end of the blade
nippers.
Fig. 7 shows an instrument in which the edges D and C are sharpened but the
outer ends I J form nippers of the ordinary straight meeting only.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
An instrument for the purpose set forth having two blades forming overlapping
nippers at the outer end and sharpened at the part within said nippers, both blades
being shaped and arranged as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.