AN IMPROVED COMBINED AERATED WATER BOTTLE OPENER AND CORKSCREW
Year: 1884

page_text: I MATT PERKINS of Frankfort Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Wood Turner do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVED
COMBINED AERATED WATER BOTTLE OPENER AND CORKSCREW to be as follows:-
I construct a head or handle similar to an ordinary cork screw handle but with a
projecting piece at one end over which I place an India rubber washer. The handle
is pierced through this projecting piece into the centre so as to form a tube, a
tubular stem is inserted into the centre of the handle pierced so as to communicate
with the tubular portion of the handle and a short tube is formed at the other end
of this tubular stem pointing in the same direction as the opening in the projection
on the handle.
A corkscrew being inserted in the end of the tubular stem closes up the end and
at the same time forms the instrument with the screw stem and handle similar to
an ordinary corkscrew.
In using it as an aerated water bottle opener the projecting portion on the handle
is pressed upon the cork or stopper of the bottle and drives it inwards when the
gas and a portion of the liquid rises up through the tube and is directed towards
the glass which is to receive the liquid by the short tube at the other end of the
stem the washer on the projecting piece assisting to prevent the escape of gas at
the neck of the bottle, by this arrangement the usual waste in opening aerated
water bottles is avoided-the cork screw can be used in the ordinary way.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
100, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I MATT, PERKINS of Frankfort street Birmingham in the county of Warwick
Wood Turner, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVED
COMBINED AERATED WATER BOTTLE OPENER AND CORKSCREW, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
I construct a head or handle similar to an ordinary corkscrew handle but with a
projecting piece at one end over which I place an india rubber washer. The handle
is pierced through this projecting piece into the centre so as to form a tube, a
tubular stem is inserted into the centre of the handle pierced so as to communicate
with the tubular portion of the handle and a short tube is formed at the other end
of this tubular stem pointing in the same direction as the opening in the projection
on the handle.
A corkscrew being inserted in the end of the tubular stem closes up the end and
at the same time forms the instruement with the screw stem and handle similar to
an ordinary corkscrew.
In using it as an aerated water bottle opener the projecting portion on the handle
is pressed upon the cork or stopper of the bottle and drives it inwards when the
gas and a portion of the liqued rises up through the tube and is directed towards
the glass which is to receive the liqued by the short tube at the other end of the
stem, the washer on the projecting piece assisting to prevent the escape of gas at
the neck of the bottle.
By this arrangement the usual waste in opening aerated water bottles is avoided
the corkscrew can be used in the ordinary way, and by cutting a portion of the
end of the tubular stem tooth shaped which is inserted in the handle and rivetting
a pin (transversely) through the handle and stem it forms a neat and secure
connection.
To further illustrate my Invention I will refer to the annexed sheet of drawings.
Figs 1. and 2. show a complete side and plan view of the combined opener and
corkscrew. Fig 1. also shows how the opener is operated on a section of the neck
of a bottle. The part marked a. is the head or handle, the part marked c. is a
flexible rubber washer incircling the projecting piece marked b. which is inserted in
the neck of the bottle marked g. The part marked d. is the tubular stem which is
secured to the handle by the pin marked . The worm marked f. is screwed into
the end of the tubular stem which closes its end, near to which is secured the short
tube marked c. The arrows show the tubular connection of the relative parts and
how the gas and liqued passes from the bottle through the opener and out of the
short tube.
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
I claim the combination of a corkscrew and an aerated water bottle opener that
will allow the gas and liquid to escape in the manner described, or any mere
modification thereof.