Improvements in or relating to Cork Extractors.
Year: 1895

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883), as allowed by
the decision of the Comptroller General of the 13th day of March, 1896.
Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in or relating to Cork Extractors.
[A communication from ALBERT PICK Merchant of Chicago, Illinois, United
States of America.]
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
This invention is intended to be used with cork-extractors (hereinafter called
mechanical cork-extractors) of the class in which the insertion of the screw into
the cork, the withdrawal of the cork from the bottle and the stripping of the cork
from the screw are all effected mechanically, by the operation of say a single
actuating lever. The invention which consists in providing these devices with means
for holding the bottles while the above named operations are taking place will be
best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 an inverted plan showing my invention
applied to a mechanical cork-extractor only portion of the lower part of the latter
being represented.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A. is part of the mechanical cork-extractor which for convenience in applying
this invention to it may be provided with a flange A¹ having at one part a lug A2
perforated for receiving a bolt or pivot pin B by which and the nut B' on the bolt,
the two concave jaw-pieces (Care pivotally connected to each other and to the
cork-extractor A. In the drawings the jaw piece Cat its pivot end is shown
forked to embrace the tenon formed at the corresponding end of the other jaw
piece C¹, but if desired they may be connected together in any other convenient
manner.
Each of the jaw pieces CC is provided with an overhanging lug 02 which
engages with the upper side of the flange A' so as to hold the jaw pieces up against
the cork-extractor A while allowing them to pivot freely on the pin B. The
flange A is provided with a projection or stop A³ for preventing either of the jaw
pieces from moving past its innermost position.
The jaw pieces (Care each provided with a handle C³ by means of which they
may both be simultaneously forced inwards to grasp the neck of the bottle by one
hand of the operator and between which acts a spring D which tends always to
force the handles into the position shown in Fig. 2.

page_text: The concave faces of the jaw-pieces are preferably lined with india rubber as
at E so as to form good gripping surfaces which yield sufficiently to prevent the
bottle neck being damaged.
When it is desired to hold a bottle in the before described device, it may be
placed between the jaw-pieces CC by one hand while with the other grasping the
handles C³ the jaw pieces are forced against the bottle neck. In this manner the
bottle is securely held between the jaw-pieces by one hand of the operator whose
other hand is thus left free to actuate the cork-extractor.
The before described device may be modified without departing from the spirit
of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;-
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1. In a device for holding a bottle while the cork is extracted therefrom the
combination with a mechanical cork-extractor of two jaw pieces such as C C¹
pivotted to the cork extractor, a spring for opening the jaw pieces and handles
such as C by which the jaw pieces may be moved towards each other by the
operator substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In combination with a mechanical cork extractor the combination and arrange-
ment of parts constituting the complete bottle-holding device substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of February 1895
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.