Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1886.
Specification Accepted, 7th Jan., 1887.
I, CHARLES HENRY HUDSON, manufacturer of 165 Broadway in the City of New
York in the County and State of New York in the United States of America, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates especially to devices employed for removing corks from bottles
and has for its object the provision of a cork screw simple in construction; easy to
operate, and which has great power and strength, and wherein the parts may be
adjusted to suit different sizes of bottles, and lengths of corks, and wherein means are
provided for readily discharging the cork from the screw.
To attain the desired ends my invention consists essentially in a main shell or
barrel adapted to rest upon and fit over the neck of a bottle, and having different
diameters forming a series of steps and bearing two arms at top, said arms being
provided with hooks and with cutting, sawing or filing edges for removing wax, wire
string etc., from the neck of the bottle and extremity of the cork. The top of the
shell is preferably provided with a screwthreaded perforation wherewith engages the
preferably screwthreaded shank of the cork screw, said shank being surmounted by a
imanipulating knob or handle. I also provide a name plate cast in the head of the
screw, and a brush for removing dust, and means for adjustably holding the screw
at any point in the shell regulating the distance the point enters the cork; and my
invention also involves certain other novel and useful combinations or arrangements
of parts and peculiarities of construction and operation all of which will be hereinafter
first fully described and then pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved cork screw, and
Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof, Figure 3 shows a method of arranging
the set screw passing through the shell; Figure 4 represents a modification of my set
screw and Figure 5, & 6, a modification of the shank of my cork screw.
Like letters of reference wherever they occur indicate corresponding parts in all the
figures.
A, is the shell or barrel formed of any approved material, and provided at its lower
extremity with steps B. The shell is perforated at the top, said perforation being
preferably screw threaded, as plainly indicated.

page_text: Upon each side of shell A are formed flaring manipulating arms C, which may be
varied in construction from those shown if desired said arms being preferably
provided with a hook or hooks D, for severing wire, strings, etc., and with a blade E,
and a saw or file F, said devices enabling the operator to easily remove any wax, wire,
string, tin foil or other covering from the neck of the bottle. B₁ are perforations in
the sides of shell A for convenience in holding the shell when in position upon the
bottle, or for holding the cork after it has been extracted from the bottle for the
purpose of disengaging the corkscrew therefrom.
G, is a set screw passing through shell A, and arranged to bear against the shank
of the cork screw, to hold the same rigidly in place when it is desired to regulate the
distance it shall penetrate the cork. In the modifications shown in Figures 3 & 6,
the shank of the set screw G, or equivalent pin G' is made small and passes through a
securing cap or plate H, rigidly attached to the shell A, or through an equivalent flat
spring holding plate H, one end of which is rigidly attached to the shell, and preventing
in either case the withdrawal and loss of the screw or pin. Or if desired the shell
and shank may be rigidly united by a pin G', passing through the hole as is clearly
shown in Figure 4, and the arms upon the top of the shank may be dispensed withı.
I, is the cork screw extending from a preferably screw threaded shank J, said shank
being surmounted by a manipulating knob or thumb piece L, which is preferably
provided with a stop I, as shown in Figure 1, the purpose of which is (upon the screw I
of the shank J being screwed down into the cork) to engage with one of the flaring
arms C, in order that the rotation of the thumb piece L, shall turn the arms C. In the
said thumb piece or knob L, is a name plate L, and to the same there may be attached
a brush K, for removing dust etc. from the bottle neck. The position of the shank J,
may be changed by turning the same in cases where it is threaded, the screw thread
engaging with the thread in the perforation in the top of the shell A, or by simply
raising or lowering it when the shank is not threaded, the parts being rigidly held
together in either case by means of the set screw G, or pin G.
The shank J, may
be modified in form and provided with flat-perforated sides as shown in Figure 5, if
desired.
M, is a spring, fitting into the shell and finding a seat upon one of the steps B,
which are preferably square or right angled said spring forcing the cork from the
screw when removed from the bottle. Springs of different sizes are provided to fit
the different diameters of the shell to conform to the size of the corks and bottles
wherewith my improved corkscrew is employed.
As it is evident that many slight changes in the construction and relative arrange-
ment of parts might be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my
invention, I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the particular
construction and arrangement of parts shown and described.
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,
1. In a cork screw of the character herein specified the flaring arms C, substantially
as shown and described.
2. In a cork screw, a shell provided with steps at its lower extremity and integral
flaring arms at its upper extremity substantially as shown and described.
3. În a device for removing corks from bottles, a shell adapted and arranged to
pass over the neck of any size bottle, a cork screw having a preferably screw threaded
shank engaging directly with the top of said shell, said shell and cork screw being
provided with independent operating handles the operating handle of the shell being
formed thereon or therewith, substantially as shown and described.
4. In a device of the character herein specified the combination with shell A,
having handle C, formed thereon or therewith and openings or perforations B', of
cork screw I having preferably screw threaded shank J, and operating handle L,
substantially as shown and described.
5. In a device of the character herein specified the combination with the shell A,
made in steps and having an operating handle C, formed thereon or therewith, of the

page_text: corkscrew I, having the preferably screw threaded shank J, and operating handle L,
substantially as shown and described.
6. A device for removing corks from bottles consisting of a shell A, provided with
a manipulating handle C, blade E, and perforations B₁, cork screw I having preferably
screw threaded shank J, and manipulating handle L, the whole combined and
arranged to operate substantially as shown and described.
7. In a cork screw of the character herein specified a spring surrounding the
extracting screw and being seated upon a step placed at the lower extremity of, and
within the shell substantially as and for the uses and purpose shown and described.
8. The combination with the shell or barrel A, and cork screw I, of removable
spring M, surrounding the extracting screw and being seated upon one of the steps
placed at the lower extremity of and within the shell, substantially as and for the uses
and purpose shown and described.
9. The combination with the shell or barrel A provided at its lower extremity with
steps B, and at its top with arms C, of the cork screw I, and the spring M, said
spring surrounding the extracting screw and being seated upon one of the steps in the
barrel or shell substantially as shown and described.
10. The shell A, having arms C terminating in hooks D, one of said arms being
provided with teeth F, and the other with blade E, substantially as and for the uses
and purpose shown and described.
11. The combination with the straight shank J, of the cast knob or thumb piece L,
said knob or thumb piece L, bearing the smooth raised panel L', as set forth.
12. The combination with the shell A, having arms C, terminating in hooks D, one
of said arms being provided with teeth F, and the other with blade E, of the cork
screw I and shank J, provided with a knob or thumb piece L, and brush K.
13. In a cork screw the combination with a shell or barrel adapted and arranged to
rest upon the neck of a bottle and with the shank J of cork screw I, of a set screw
or equivalent pin adapted to hold the two parts rigidly together substantially as shown
and described.
14. In a cork screw of the character herein specified the combination with the
flaring arms C, of shell A, of the shank J, provided with the knob or thumb piece L,.
and stop L³, substantially as and for the uses and purpose shown and described.