Improved Apparatus to be Employed for the Extraction of Corks from the Bodies of Bottles and other Vessels.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Feb., 1898
Improved Apparatus to be Employed for the Extraction of Corks
from the Bodies of Bottles and other Vessels.
I, ROBERT NICHOLSON, Junior, of 1, Stanhope Villa, Horncastle, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:-
My invention for improved apparatus to be employed for the extraction of corks
from the bodies of bottles, and other vessels, will be understood from the following
description. From a strip of steel, (on account of its elasticity, and of the kind
used for clock springs) of a required guage, length and width, I first bend down
from its centre, forming a bowed figure, or bifurcation, and by a clip of metal, or
by other means I connect the two sides together, the dependent parts or limbs I
form as a spring clip and the terminals are bent inwardly as claws.
The spring clip is compressed sufficient to pass down the neck of the bottle or
vessel, until reaching the body when it takes its normal position, it is then arranged
to engage the cork so that by the application of the hand to the bowed part, and
with an outward pull the claws engage the cork and it is withdrawn.
I may construct the bowed part as a loop, of a sufficient size to receive a handle
of wood, or other material of any desired pattern, the other parts constructed as
before described.
I may construct the above from two strips of steel for forming the limbs as a
spring clip, with the terminals bent inwardly as claws. In this case I employ a
bowed loop handle of wire, or casting in metal or other material provided with a
stem and open to receive the upper ends of the limbs secured thereto by rivetting
or metal clips.
Or I may construct the above from a strip of steel as above described and employ
a second strip of steel of a required length but narrower and thinner in guage, this
I should double down from its centre forming the dependent parts or limbs, as a
spring clip, the terminals bent inwardly as claws, these limbs are configurated to
lie in or between the larger ones and are workable upon a pin in the sides, about
the middle, which also hold the parts together, but allow of it being moved up to
the bowed part or handle, when so required the spring clip so constructed admits
of its passage into small bottles for the extraction of corks.
Or I may construct the above from wire and the dependent parts to form the
spring clip I should flatten by rolling or hammering and by preference should
twist the two sides to form the stem.
And in order that this my said invention may be more fully understood I will
now proceed to describe the same more particularly and for that purpose I shall
refer to the sheet of drawings, hereunto annexed, the same letters of reference
indicating like or corresponding parts throughout all the figures.
Fig. 1, is a view in elevation of the apparatus for extracting corks from bottles,
and other vessels, and constructed according to my invention.

page_text: Fig. 2, shews the same in application.
Fig. 3, is a side view elevation as Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a view in elevation substantially as Fig. 1, but adapted to receive a
handle of wood or the like.
Fig. 5, is a side view elevation as Fig. 4.
Fig. 6, is a view in elevation substantially as Fig. 1 but shewing the limbs
formed from two strips of steel and affixed to the stem of a bowed loop handle.
Fig. 7, is a view in elevation substantially as Fig. 1, but shewing the employ-
ment of a smaller spring clip arranged thereto.
Fig. 8, is a view in elevation, being a modification, by constructing the apparatus
from wire.
a, and b, respectively are the bowed figure or loop for the hand, and the depen-
dent parts, or limbs, both formed from one strip of steel, and form the spring clip,
the terminals c, c, are formed as claws, it will be perceived that one of the said
limbs is slightly longer than the other this allows it to pass over the shorter one,
and further to engage with the cork more securely, d, is the clip of metal for hold-
ing the two sides together, or I may bind the same by a coil of wire, or by rivetting,
e, is the handle of wood, or other material, f, is a bowed handle of metal, with a
split stem g, to receive the two limbs b, constructed from two strips of steel, and
secured to g, by the rivets h, h. i, represents a glass bottle with my apparatus as
Fig. 1-after its compression and passage down the neck of the bottle and engaging
with the cork j, in the body of i, brought by the power of extraction to the neck
of i, and by the force of c, c, under or into j, enables the object of this invention
to be effected, that is withdrawn from i. The spring clips b, b, being now free, and
by its own power now assumes its normal position, and the cork j, is released
therefrom.
6¹ is a strip of steel narrower and thinner than b, and doubled down at 7, forming
the spring clip, and working upon the pin h, which allows its being moved to the
position indicated by the dotted lines 62. a¹ is the loop for the hand made from
wire, the sides being twisted as the stem m, and the dependent parts, bb, flattened
out.
While I have described above, and shown upon the drawings the features of
my invention, I would observe that I do not limit myself to form or details as I
may make desirable changes without departing from the principle of my said
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In, "Improved apparatus to be employed for the extraction of corks from the
bodies of bottles and other vessels" :-
1. From a strip of metal, (steel by preference) the construction or configuration
of the said apparatus, substantially as herein before described and shown in
Figs. 1, 2, 3.
2. From a strip of metal (steel by preference) the construction or configuration
of the said apparatus, substantially as herein before described and shewn in
Figs. 4-5.
3. From two strips of metal (steel by preference) the construction or configura-
tion of the said apparatus, substantially as herein before described and shewn in
Fig. 6.
4. From two strips of metal (steel by preference) the construction or configura-
tion of the said apparatus, substantially as herein before described and shewn in
Fig. 7.
5. From a length of wire (steel by preference) the construction or configura-
tion of the said apparatus, substantially as herein before described and shewn in
Fig. 8.

page_text: 6. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts substan-
tially as herein before described in the foregoing specification and illustrated on
the accompanying sheet of drawings.
1000
THOS.
KENDRICK,
50, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent.