Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th Mar, 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 13th Apr, 1889
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co, Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
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This improvement consists of certain novel features in a cork-puller of such
character that first a corkscrew is forced by a downward movement of the hand to
enter a cork in a bottle having a mouth portion held against a supporting frame and
subsequently to the insertion of the corkscrew in the cork, a lever or crank arm
18 operated to impart a bodily movement to the cork-screw and forcibly extract
the cork
The improvement consists in the combination with a frame provided with a
cylindric portion, the lower end of which is adapted to receive and hold the mouth
portion of a bottle, of a cyhnder fitted within the said cy hndric portion of the frame
and having a rack, a toothed segment supported by the frame and engaging with
the rack of the cylinder, a lever or crank arm for oscillating the segment so as to
enable the latter to raise the cylinder, a corkscrew Journalled within the said cylinder
so that it may rotate therein and yet may be carried upwardly when the cylinder is
moved upwardly through the agency of the segment and a hand-piece provided
with reds or arms extending downwardly through slots arranged longitudinally
at opposite sides of the cylinder, and having at their lower extremities pins which
extend through these slots in the cylinder and along a spiral groove in the shank
of the corkscrew
A bottle will be held with its mouth in the lower part of the cylindric 1 ortion of
the trame, the hand-prece will then be forced downwardly A rotary notion of the
corkscrew will thus be produced in the proper direction to cause the corkscrew to

page_text: enter the cork
Afterwards the lever or crank arm will be oscillated and through
the segment will raise the said cylinder bodily, and as the latter will carry with it the
corkscrew, the cork will be forciby extracted or pulled from the bottle
Dated this 11th day of June 1888
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, WC,
Agents for the Applicant
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the niture
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 improvement relates to a corh-extractor wherein a corkscrew 18 forced by a
a downward movement of the hand of the operator to enter a cork while the mouth
portion of the bottle containing the cork rests in a supporting frame and wherein,
after the insertion of the screw into the cork, a lever or crank arm is operated to
extract the cork
The improvement consists in the combination with a frame provided with cylindric
portion provided at the lower end with a rest for the mouth portion of a bottle, of a
corkscrew arranged within said cylindric portion, a device movable lengthwise of the
said cylindric portion to rotate the corkscrew for the purpose of inserting it in a cork
and a lever or arm, co-acting with the rest for the mouth portion of the bottle to
produce a relative movement between the cork and the bottle for causing the cork-
screw to extract the cork
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In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a sectional side view of a device embodying
my improvement Figure 2 is a vertical section taken at the plane of the dotted
line a x Figure 1 Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken at the prane of the dotted
Line y9
Figure 4 is a side view of a modified construction embodying my improve-
ment Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures
A designates a frame which is here shown as adapted to be clamped upon the edge
of a table, bench or bar, it being provided with two jaws a' a' and a screw a fitted in
a tapped hole in one of the jaws and provided with a bearing piece at its upper end
and a hand piece at its lower end
The upper end of the frame A' is provided with a cylindric portion A', which at the
lower end is shown as flared outwardly so as to be capable of receiving the mouth

page_text: portion of a bottle
The interior of this naring portion or, in other words, the race
which will receive the mouth portion of the bottle may advantageously be lined with
leather, india rubber or lhe material so as to reduce the danger of fracturing the
bottle
Within the cylindric portion A¹ of the frame A is a cylinder B This cylinder B
has at one side a series of notches The portions of the cylinder between the notches
form teeth It will be seen, therefore, that this cylinder B is provided longitudinally
with a toothed-rack b
C designates a toothed segment engaging with the rack 6 of the cylinder B This
segment is fitted into a bifurcated portion of the frame A and extends through slot
in the cylindric portion A¹ of the said frame so as to reach the rack of the cylinder B
This segment is secured to a shaft journalled in the bifurcate portions of the frime A
One end of the shaft has a crank arm C¹ affixed to it By swinging the crank arm
the shaft and segment may be oscillated and the segment will then raise or lower the
cylinder B
Within the cylinder B the shank of a corkscrew 1) is arranged The corkscrew
extends below the cylinder The shank is journalled in blocks arranged it the ends
of the cylinder In the shank of the corkscrew a spiral groove of quick pitch is
formed
F" F" designate
E designates a collar surrounding the shank of the corkscrew
two pins shown as consisting of screws which pass through longitudinal slots 6* in
opposite portions of the cylinder B and are secured to the collar E, also to two
rods G G which fit within said slots 63 64 The rods G G are fastened to a hand
piece H
By moving the hand piece H up and down, the pins F1 F2 will travel along the spiral
groove in the shank of the corkscrew and rapidly rotate the corkscrew During the
downward motion of the hand piece the corkscrew will be rotated so as to enter
the cork of a bottle arranged with its mouth in the flaring lower end portion of
the cylindric part A¹ of the frame A When the hand piece is raised the corkscrew
will be rotated in the reverse direction
The
Normally the cylinder B will occupy its lowest position within the cylindric
portion A of the frame A To pull a cork from a bottle the mouth of the bottle will
be held against the flaring lower end of the cylindric portion A¹ of the frame
hand piece H will then be raised Afterwards it will be pushed down quickly The
corkscrew will thereby be made to screw into the cork Then the crank arm C will
be oscillated so as to cause the segment to raise the cylinder B and pull out the
cork I have shown the front of the cylindric portion A¹ of the frame A as provided
with a device for breaking or cutting wire and cords employed to secure corks in
bottles
Turning now to Figure 4, it will be seen that there is a frame substantially like the
frame A heretofore described In the cylindric portion a' of this frame a corkscrew D
1s Journalled The corkscrew extends slightly below the cylindric portion
¹ designates a lever or arm fulcrumed at one end to the frame A as here shown
by means of a pin extending through a standard on the frame A and passing through
a longitudinal slot in the lever or arm Between the ends this lever or arm is con-
nected to a collar E It may be connected to the collar by pins F1 F³, such as
have been previously described and the collar may be engaged with the spiral
groove in the shank of the corkscrew by other pins, or these pins which connect
the lever or arm to the nut may extend through the nut and engage with the
spiral groove in the shank of the corkscrew
In this modification of my invention, there is a bar A³ fitted to slide longitudinally
along the lower part of the cylindric portion A¹ of the frame A It is shown as held
in place by pins A³ extending from the cylindric portion A¹ of the frame A and
extending into longitudinal slots in the bar A' The lower end of the bar A' 18
shaped to receive the mouth of a bottle To extract a cork from a bottle, the bottle
is placed in the lower end of the bar A' and pushed upwardly, thus elevating the
bar A as far as it will go, and the lever or arm C¹ is moved downwardly The result

page_text: is that the corkscrew will be inserted in the cork and when the lever or armı descends
far enough to reach the bar A³ it will force the bar A downwardly, and in this way
extract the cork from the bottle
It will be seen that my cork-puller is simple and cheap in construction, not liable
to get out of order and capable of being very easily, quickly and efficiently operated
to extract a cork
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign Correspondent, 1 declare that what I claim is
1 The combination with a frame provided with a cylindric portion provided at the
lower end with a rest for the mouth portion of a bottle, of a corkscrew arranged
within said cylindric portion, a device movable lengthwise of the said cylindric
portion to rotate the corkscrew for the purpose of inserting it in a cork and a lever or
arm co-acting with the rest for the mouth portion of the bottle to produce a relative
movement between the cork and the bottle for causing the corkscrew to extract the
cork, substantially as specified
2 The combinat.on with a frame having a cylindric portion, of a cylinder provided
with a rack fitted to slide in the cylindric portion of said frume, a segment supported
by the frame and engaging with the rack of the cylinder which is fitted within the
cylindric portion of said frame, a crank arm for operating the segment, a corkscrew
having its shank provided with a spiral groove and fitted to the cylinder which is
provided with a rack, pins engaging with the spiral groove in the shank of the cork-
screw, rods connected to said pins and a hand piece connected to said rods, sub-
stantially as specified
Dated this 11th dow of Manh 1000