Cork Drawing Machine.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Cork Drawing Machine.
I WILLIAM ASHTON of No. 53 Old Park Lane Southport in the County of
Lancaster Mechanic do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The object of my invention is to provide improved means for removing corks
from bottles and it consists in a novel construction and combination of parts such
as will be hereinafter described and pointed out particularly in the close of my
Specification.
My invention does away with pressing the bottle upward. At the moment the
corkscrew enters the cork there is a lever and spring worked by the cam which
the handle is fixed to, and when the handle is brought forward the lever presses
the bottle neck against the part of the machine and holds it there until the screw
is forced through the cork with a forward motion. When the backward motion is
operated on the cork is withdrawn. The cork, slide box, and screw go up together
to a certain point, then the slide box stops; the corkscrew passing on, clears itself
of the cork, and by the use of a small spring the cork is pushed on one side down
a slot into a box to receive the corks.
To avoid the machine standing so high in a vertical position the corkscrew is
operated on by a link chain fixed at one end to the cam, and working round with
it. The other end of the chain is attached to the corkscrew that is, it is allowed
to work freely round and also up and down the slide box to relieve itself of the
cork. This gives a circular part to the machine that can be used for indicating
the number of corks extracted, a date calendar, a barometer, or any kind of
ornament.
Dated this 4th day of August 1894.
WILLIAM ASHTON.
Cork Drawing ACHING.
WILLIAM ASHTON, 53 Old Park Lane, Southport in the County of Lancaster
Mechanic 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 :-
The object is to provide means for removing corks from bottles, and consists of a
novel construction and combination of parts, such as will be hereinafter described
and pointed out, particularly in the claims at the close of this Specification.
Fig. 1. represents a front view of my improved appliance in position when ready
for use.
N shows the arrangement for clamping the machine to a counter or table
by a thumbscrew. The indicators V. show the immmber of bottles, corks have been
extracted from. if preferable at V. barometer or days of month may be used.
Fig. 2. is the internal construction showing in full lines the parts in position
which they occupy after the cork has been extracted or removed from the bottle.
The spring lever C is fixed to lever D by a small shaft with nut and screw S.

page_text: Fig. 3. The lever C is made of steel to give and take to various thicknesses of
bottle necks. An ordinary link chain H can be made square or round solid or in
parts, and is fixed to the cam A at one end, the other end is arranged for part P.
which holds the spiral cork screw and allows it to swivel round T. The internal
part of slide box F Fig 2 has internal screw thread which engages with screw thread
on outside of part P. and which when passing up and down F twists the spiral
corkscrew in and out of cork.
When the handle B is moved forward, the lever C. is forced on the plain part or
edge of the cam A, at the same time the lever D being worked by or in conjunction
with lever C comes against the bottle neck and clips it together with the part L
on machine frame, holding the bottle until cork is withdrawn.
The link chain H and slide box F work down to G, then the slide box stops,
with the forward motion of H. the screw on P is forced through F which gives the
twisting action to corkscrew T. and causes it to pierce the cork, which completes
the forward motion.
The
On the return of the handle B. the cork is withdrawn from the bottle E.
link chain H. slide box F. and cork I, work back all together until the slide box top
gets to R. where F is arrested, the continued backward motion of H causes the
screw P to move up box F, and by the same action unscrews the corkscrew from
cork I. which is then acted upon by spring J causing the cork to pass down slot M
into a box fixed to the machine to receive it.
Fig. 3. is end view of machine, and showing the lever D. applied to front part
of machine or in reverse position to that shown in Fig. 2. taking position of L.
and operated by rearrangement of lever and cam.
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 spring lever and cam for securing bottle whilst drawing the cork, as
described above.
2. The rotary chain arrangement and slide box, as described above.
3. The provision of slot conveying corks to a box or other receiver, as described
above.
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WILLIAM ASHTON.