New or Improved Device for Extracting Pickles from Bottles, or for analogous purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1805
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Device for Extracting Pickles from Bottles, or for
analogous purposes.
I, JOHN TOM HICKMAN WARD, of H.M. Gunboat Yard, Haslar, Gosport,
Hants, Engineer R.N. 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 relates to a new or improved device for extracting pickles from
bottles, or for analogous purposes, and has for its object to provide means whereby
objects such as pickled onious, or other articles of food of a similar nature, can be
extracted from a bottle or like receptacle, in a quicker and easier manner than
heretofore was, and at present is, possible.
And in order that this my invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
wherein :-
Fig. 1 is an elevational view of the device complete, Fig. 2 being a view of the
outer casing thereof while Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1, but with the rod or
extractor partly withdrawn to illustrate the position same would assume when in
operation.
Referring to the drawings, a is a tube or case, the lower end a whereof is
provided with, or given the form of an inverted cup as shewn, while the edge of
the upper extremity is preferably flanged as at a².
Through this tube or cylindrical casing a passes a rod b, adapted to work freely
up and down within such tube or cylindrical casing, the lower or forward end 6' of
such rod b being pointed and barbed, so that same will readily enter any moderately
hard substance such as a pickled onion for instance, but will require a certain
force to be exerted in order to remove the object into which the said end ¹ has
eutered.
The upper or rear end 62 of the rod b is fashioned into, or provided with, a
suitable handle, so that same can be readily grasped by a person's hand, and the
rod manipulated.
If desirable a spiral or other suitable spring may be interposed between the said
handle b² and the upper end of the tube or cylindrical casing a or be located in any
other suitable position for the purpose of returning the rod to the position
necessary for the next operation, after such rod has been depressed or pushed into
the tube or cylindrical casing a.
In operation the rod 6 is raised or partly withdrawn from the tube or cylindrical
casing a until in the position shewn by Fig. 3, the cup-like end 6¹ is then placed
over the pickle or the like to be impaled and withdrawn from the receptable in
which it reposes, and the barbed end b¹ of the rod b then forced into the said
pickled onion or the like sufficiently to enable same to be withdrawn.
By now raising or partly withdrawing the rod b again the impaled object is
forced against, and partly inside, the cup-like end a', and is thereby dislodged from
the barbed end 6 of the rod b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The device for extracting pickles from bottles or other receptacles, or for
analogous burnnces substantially as described, and as illustrated.

page_text: 2. The device for extracting pickles from bottles or other receptacles, or for
analogous purposes, consisting of a tube or cylindrical casing having a cup-like end
through which tube or casing works a rod barbed and pointed at one end, and
provided with a ring or handle at the other, substantially as specified, and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 30th day of November 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents for the Applicant.