Improvements in Pocket-knives and Cork-screws Combined.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 13th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket-knives and Cork-screws Combined.
I, CARL HUGO MÜLLER, of Solingen, in the German Empire, Cutler, do hereby.
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in pocket-knives and cork-screws combined
and has for its object to so fix a cork-screw to the knife back that the straight part
of the cork-screw is received by a ring adapted to turn between the sides at the back
of the knife and in which ring the said straight part can readily glide and the free
end of which latter is formed with a round or square flat head.
To this end I form each knife side at the back with an eye positioned opposite to
each other, in which I mount a ring having pivots. This ring is adapted for the
reception of the straight part of the cork-screw, the inner end of which is formed
with a head.
When the cork-screw is out of use it lies along the knife back and is retained in
such position by means of a spring fixed thereto, which presses the headed end of the
cork-screw upwards and the screwed part downwards.
The cork-screw is placed in position for use by gripping its screw, drawing it out
of the said ring until its head abuts against the said ring and afterwards turning
the cork-screw 90 degrees, in which position its head bears against the knife back.
Dated this 11th day of May 1896
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
I, CARL HUGO MÜLLER, of Solingen, in the German Empire, Cutler, 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 improvements in means for securing cork-screws and
the like to hafts.
The pocket knife illustrated on annexed drawing has a cork-screw with a plain
shank and although nearly as long as the knife itself will be positioned in the middle
of the haft when open and secured in position in and out of use by a ring in which
the plain part of the cork-screw can slide and which is adapted to turn between
projections on the sides of the haft.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures, Fig. 1 being a side view of a knife and cork-screw
combined constructed in accordance with my invention, the cork-screw being shown
open,

page_text: Fig. 2 a longitudinal section and a cross section at line x-x, and
Fig. 3 a back view showing the cork-screw closed.
Fig. 4 shows in detail the ring a, the cork-screw and its head b.
In carrying out my invention the shank of the cork-screw is passed through the
ring a and to prevent it falling out at the end furnished with a head b. When out of
use, the cork screw rests in the back of the knife taking up nearly the whole of its
length and is secured in position therein by the ring a. In the knife spring dis
inserted a thin spring c, the free end of which bears against the head of the
cork-screw and prevents it sliding out. The ring a has pivots g which are received
by projections or eyes e on the sides of the haft and allow of raising and lowering
the cork-screw in and out of use.
If the plain part or shank of the cork-screw is of an angular section the hole in the
ring a will be made correspondingly in shape.
The described securing device may also be used in connection with hafts containing
besides a cork-screw another tool or instrument.
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-
The combination of a cork-screw or the like with a haft of a pocket knife by
employing between the haft sides or projection thereon a ring a adapted to turn
therein and receive the plain part of a cork-screw or other tool or instrument
adapted to slide therein and thereby be brought in and out of use, all substantially
as set forth.
Dated this 12th day of Jon 1907
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.