An Improved Device for Opening Corked or Internally Stoppered Bottles and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
An Improved Device for Opening Corked or Internally Stoppered
Bottles and the like.
I, JOHN STANLEY GARLICK, of the Philharmonic Restaurant, Cardiff, in the County
of Glamorgan, Carver, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an improved device for opening corked or internally
stoppered bottles.
In carrying it into effect I form on the shank of an ordinary hand or machine
corkscrew a cone the apex of which is merged into the top of the screw. I prefer to
make the point of the screw longer than this part is usually made.
The object of the cone is to remove a drawn cork from the stem of the screw by
bursting it in the act of turning the screw into a second cork.
One end of the ordinary handle is formed as a push for opening internally stoppered
bottles of aerated waters, and the other is bent at a right angle to be used for revolving
the head, while the screw is held in an upright position by the left hand grasping the
last drawn cork on the stem of the neck of the bottle to be opened.
Dated this 14th day of April 1887.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Device for Opening Corked or Internally Stoppered
•Bottles and the like.
I, JOHN STANLEY GARLICK, of the Philharmonic Restaurant, Cardiff, in the County
of Glamorgan, Carver, 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:—
My invention relates to improvements in corkscrews; and in order that it may be
thoroughly understood I will describe it in detail, referring in so doing to the
accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this specification and read
therewith.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a corkscrew made according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation, partly in section, shewing the screw partially through
the cork to be drawn.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation shewing the screw farther through the cork to be drawn
than in Fig. 2, and the last drawn cork splitting away from the cone.
Fig. 4 is an end elevation shewing the cork drawn, the screw having been turned
as far through the cork as was necessary to gain a drawing hold of it, and to also
split into two pieces the last drawn cork.
Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation of the left hand end of the head as the same is
illustrated in Fig. 1.
A is the head of the screw and which I make longer than it has hitherto been the
practice to make this part of a corkscrew. The shank B is not joined to it in the
centre, but to one side of the centre, so that one half, a, of the head-that, on the
right hand of Fig. 1,-is longer than the other. From the extremity of the longer
half projects a stout pin, C, by which the screw, F, can be turned into the cork to be
drawn much more rapidly, in virtue of the increased leverage due to the extra length
of the half a, than in the case of ordinary corkscrews with transverse heads and shanks
fixed centrally therein, in actuating which the available lever is not longer than half
the width of the hand..
E is a cone formed upon the shank B. The purpose of this cone is to split asunder
a drawn cork during the act of turning the screw into the next cork; and to thereby
save the time occupied in removing a drawn cork from the screw before the latter can
be turned into the next cork.
F is the screw, which I prefer make rather longer than usual, so that sufficient
screw may project beyond the drawn cork to obtain a good hold of the cork in the
bottle neck, enough to prevent the resistance of the drawn cork to the splitting action
of the cone, E, tearing the cork to be drawn.
The point, f, of the screw is preferably long as compared with the points of cork-
screws in present use.
G is a stud projecting from the end of the shorter half of the head, A ; and g, an
annular recess in the end of the head.

page_text: The stud forms an opener for bottles of aerated waters stoppered with "patent."
H is the cork to be drawn from the bottle neck, h; and I is the cork that was last
drawn.
A corkscrew made in the way above described is operated as follows.
The point, f, is pushed into the top of the cork, and the shank, B, and cone, E,
grasped with the left hand. The pin, C, is then taken by the thumb and finger of
the right hand and turned round according to the hand of the screw. Thanks to the
distance of the pin from the axis of rotation which passes through the fulcrum of the
half-head or lever, a, and also to the fact that the right band can be kept at work
constantly instead of intermittently only, the screw is turned down through the cork
with half the effort and in half the time necessary with corkscrews of the ordinary
construction.
I in Fig. 2 shews the position of the first drawn cork upon the screw, where it
remains. The screw F is shewn as projecting beyond it for a distance rather greater
than the length of the next cork, H, for a reason already explained. As the screw is
being turned down into the second cork, H, the drawn cork I improves the hold which
the drawer's left hand has of the shank the screw which latter is turned on until the
cork falls away from the cone, when the cork H is drawn in the usual way.
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
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1. In corkscrews with T-heads, a long head to which the shank is fixed nearer to
one end of the said head than the other; substantially as described with reference to
the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of long head; shank fixed thereto at a point nearer to one end
of said head than to the other end; pin projecting from the extremity of the longer
portion of said head; and stud projecting from one end of said head substantially as
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of shank; cone; and long pointed screw substantially; as
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination of long head; shank fixed thereto at a point nearer to one end
of said head than to the other end; pin projecting from the extremity of the longer
portion of said head; cone; and long pointed screw; substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of January 1888