Year: 1896

page_text: I, WALTER VAUGHAN, of 134 Cattell Road, Small Heath, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to mechanism used for the purpose of drawing corks from
bottles and other similar articles, and has for its object the construction and
arrangement of such mechanism after the following manner.
I provide a stand or frame which may be secured to a table counter or other
place and preferably I should secure it by means of a screw clamp.
The front part of this frame is made of a tubular or barrel form which may be
in an angular or vertical direction, preferably the latter. Within this tubular part
works a sliding barrel at whose lower end is fixed the screw nut, in or through
which the corkscrew revolves, and in so doing advances or recedes as the case
may be. Within this sliding barrel is further arranged the corkscrew (piston)
rod; at whose lower end is attached the corkscrew, which latter is held in the
said rod by means of a screw cap or nut in such a manner as to allow of the screw
being free to revolve. The exterior diameter of this nut is made a little larger
than the rod. The other end of this rod is formed having a cross slot with
which engages a lever, whose one end is fulcrumed upon the upper end of a
pillar like formation upon the rear part of the frame, and at the other end having
the handle by which it may be operated. This lever about its middle part is
formed slotwise so as to embrace the crosshead of the rod; a più being passed
through the lever and the cross slot in the crosshead to connect them. Reverting
to the sliding barrel :-At its upper end is provided a sleeve nut which slides upon
the rod, and which is passed thereon before the nut which holds the corkscrew in,
is placed in position, so that the said sleeve nut cannot slide off the rod. To this
sleeve nut is now screwed the sliding barrel, and upon the front of the barrel is
formed a projection or lump which slides in an open slot or groove in the frame
barrel to prevent rotation of the sliding barrel.
Further this frame is secured to the counter, table or other fixture, by means
of a screw cramp which is easily attached to the frame by means of a dovetail
formed upon the said cramp sliding into a dovetail formed in the lower side of the
frame so that the bottom of the frame and the screw part of the cramp from the
cramp as a whole.
Its action is somewhat as follows :-The lever is raised and the neck of the bottle
from which the cork is to be drawn is placed in the mouth of the barrel. The
lever is now pulled down and the corkscrew is thereby made to revolve in the sliding
nut, and is thus screwed into the cork. By now pushing up the lever, the cork is
withdrawn from the bottle, and by further continuing the upward movement of the
lever the sliding nut and the cork are carried up the lever part of the barrel
until the sliding nut comes in contact with the shoulder in the said barrel when its
further upward progress is stopped; but the corkscrew still going upward unscrews
the cork therefrom, and it falls from the mouth of the barrel. The lever has now

page_text: reached its highest position which is regulated by a suitable stop arrangement at
the fulcrum. The machine is then ready to repeat the same process.
Dated this 4th day of May 1896.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COгk-drawing Machines.
1, WALTER VAUGHAN, of 134 Cattell Road, Small Heath, in the City of
Birmingham, 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:-
This invention relates to mechanism used for the purpose of drawing corks from
bottles, and other similar articles, and has for its object the construction and
arrangement of such mechanisin after the following manner.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention I have appended hereunto
an illustrative drawing upon which are figures and numbers of reference similar
numbers referring throughout the several views to the same thing or part.
Fig. 1, is a part sectional view of my invention showing the corkscrew in its
forward position, as though it was inserted into the cork in a bottle.
Fig. 2, is a part plan view in detail of the lever, showing the central slot.
Fig. 3, is a part front view of the frame barrel.
I provide a stand or frame 5 which may be secured to a table, counter 6 or other
place, and preferably I should secure it by means of a screw cramp 7.
The front part 8 of this frame is made of a tubular or barrel form which may be
in an angular or vertical direction. The drawings are made to show it in the former
position.
Within this tubular part works a sliding barrel 9 at whose lower end is fixed the
screw nut 10, in or through which the corkscrew 11 revolves, and in so doing
advances or recedes as the case may be. Within this sliding barrel is further
arranged the corkscrew (piston) rod 12, at whose lower end is attached the cork-
screw, which latter is held in the said rod by means of a screw cap or nut 13 in such
a manner as to allow of the screw 11 being free to revolve. The exterior diameter
of this nut 13 is made a little larger than the rod. The other end of this rod 12 is
formed having a cross slot 14 which by means of the pin 15 engages with the lever 16
whose one end is fulcrumed at 17 upon the rear part of the frame 5, and at the
other end having the handle 18 by which it may be operated. At the middle
part of the lever is formed a slot 19, which embraces the crosshead 20 of the rod 12,
the pin 15 being passed through the lever and the cross slot in the crosshead to
connect them. Reverting to the sliding barrel 9:-At its upper end is provided a
sleeve nut 21, which slides upon the rod 12, and which is passed thereon before the
nut 13 (which holds the corkscrew in), is placed in position so that the said sleeve
nut 21 cannot slide off the rod. To this sleeve nut is now screwed the sliding barrel
by means of the screwthread at 22.
Further, this frame is secured to the counter, table or other fixture by means of
the screw clamp 7 which is easily attached to the frame by means of a dovetail 23
formed in the lower side of the frame 5, so that the bottom of the frame and the
screw part of the clamp form the cramp as a whole.
Its action is somewhat as follows:-The lever 18 is first raised to its highest
position as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,-when the neck of the bottle from
which the cork is to be drawn, is placed in the mouth 24 of the barrel 8. By now

page_text: pulling the lever downwards, the piston rod 12 and the sliding barrel 9 all move
forward together until the shoulder 25 of the sleeve 21 reaches the interior shoulder
of the barrel 8, as shown in section in Fig. 1, by which the forward motion of the
said barrel 9 is arrested. The continued movement of the lever 16 however drives
forward the screw 11 through the nut 10 into the cork in the bottle. By now
returning the handle back into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the
screw 11, and slide 9 are first raised together until the shoulder 26 upon the slide 9
reaches the internal shoulder 27 in the barrel 8 by which its further movement is
prevented. The cork is thus withdrawn. The continued movement however
of the handle 16 now pulls the rod 12 further forward and in doing so the
screw 11 is drawn through the nut 13 and hence the cork is thus thrown off the
screw.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said.
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In cork drawing mechanism, the combination with the frame 5 having the barrel 8,
lever 16 having the slot 19, and the rod 12 with slot 14, and screw 11, of the sliding
barrel 9, sleeve 21, all constructed and operating substantially as set forth and shown.
upon the drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1897.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12 Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.