Improvements in Cork Pullers.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cork Pullers.
I, EDWIN WALKER of the City of Erie, in the County of Erie, State of
Pennsylvania, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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 cork-pullers of the kind described in.
my previous Specifications No. 4162 of 1894 and No. 5259 of 1895.
According to my present improvements I provide a lever so arranged as to
clamp and firmly hold a bottle neck during the operation of pulling the cork and I
provide on the screw carrier a yoke which is engaged by one of the stud-pins on
the operating lever during a portion of its movement so as to ensure the proper
relative movement of the parts of the mechanism.
In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention :
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved cork-puller.
Figure 2 is a side view with parts sectioned.
Figure 3 is
rear view.
Figure 4 is a separate side view of the cork-screw carrier and its yoke, part of
the nut carrier being sectioned.
Figure 5 shows the inner face of the operating lever.
A is the base of the frame adapted to be secured to a counter or other suitable
support, A' is the tubular part containing the cork-screw mechanism which is the
same as that described in my prior Specifications above referred to.
The lower end of the tubular portion is extended downward for some distance so
as to form a socket C to receive the upper end of a bottle neck, and the lower side
of this socket is further extended forming a semi-tubular arm E so as to form a.
rest or support for the under side of the bottle neck so that when a bottle neck
is placed on E the cork screw G will pass centrally down into the mouth of the
bottle.
On the side of the socket C I pivot a lever H, the lower end of which has a
curved jaw h, preferably faced with an elastic pad.
The handle H' of the lever H is such and so situated by its weight it holds the
jaw h up so as not to interfere with the insertion of a bottle neck into the socket C.
When the operator grasping a bottle in his right hand inserts its neck into the-
socket C and then with his left hand draws forward the handle H he brings the
jaw h against the bottle neck so as to hold it firmly pressed against the support E..
This being done, the right hand is free to move the lever I to draw the cork.
The lever I has a central stud-pin J turning freely in a hole J¹ of the frame and
has a half disc K, in which are fixed the two inwardly projecting stud pins L.
and L. On part of the periphery of K there is also an inwardly projecting
circular rib k extending from the point round to * so that there is a part
between the pins L and L' without any rib and the lug n on the nut carrier N can
therefore pass up between the pins L and L' during part of the movement of the
lever I; as described in my previous Specification No. 5259 of 1895.
To the cork screw carrier F is secured a yoke O having at its lower end a
hook O made with an open slot or gab o which, when the lower end O' of the
yoke O comes in contact with the lug n coincides with the slot n' and in common
with that slot receives the pin L so that while the nut carrier N is moved up and
down by the pin L, the nut carrier N and the screw carrier F necessarily move in.

page_text: unison until the pin L moves out of the slot o of the yoke O, and the slot n¹ of the
nut carrier N, and then the pin L' engages the slot m in the projection M on the
screw carrier F, and moves the screw carrier upwards independently of the nut
carrier N, which is retained in its lower position by the rib-b-on-the-operating
lever I being engaged with the projection n on the nut carrier N.
Thus the movement of the cork screw carrier F, the nut carrier N and the
lever I are the same in all respects as is described in Specification No. 5259
of 1895 whilst the yoke O operates only to ensure the movement of the parts
in time relatively to each other, the slots m and n being always maintained in
such relative positions as to be properly engaged by the pins L' and L of the
operating lever I.
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. In a cork puller in combination with the socket and rest for the bottle
neck a lever with padded jaw to hold the bottle neck in position substantially
as described.
2. In combination with the carrier of the cork-screw, a yoke attached thereto
having a gab to receive the lever pin while it is moving the nut carrier
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 7th day of April 1896.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.