Improved Appliance for Opening and Stoppering Bottles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th June, 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Opening and Stoppering Bottles.
I, BROOKE MARTIN of 9 Broomwood Road, Wandsworth Common, S. W.
London, in the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
A combined implement adapted for opening the various bottles now in general
use, and for screwing up screw stoppered bottles.
This invention consists of a combined implement for opening the various bottles
now in general use, viz. : Screw stoppered bottles, ball stoppered bottles, corked
bottles, and wired bottles.
The hook at A having been passed around the screwed stopper of bottle, moving
the handle and cam to the left hand will unscrew the stopper; or the hook having
been passed around the stopper in the opposite direction, moving the handle and
cam to the right hand will screw up the stopper.
The plug B when inserted in the neck of a ball stoppered bottle and pressed
from above will open it.
The screw C is for use in opening corked bottles.
The hooked knife D is for cutting the wires of wired bottles.
The whole combination is arranged in a compact form suitable for domestic or
travellers' use.
Dated this 12th dow of Cannahou 1002
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliance for Opening and Stoppering Bottles.
I. BROOKE MARTIN of 9 Broomwood Road, Wandsworth Common London, in
the County of Surrey, Civil Engineer, 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 a combined appliance for opening screw stoppered
bottles, ball stoppered bottles, corked bottles, and corked and wired bottles, and
for screwing up screw stoppered bottles.
The appliance may be made in various ways for carrying out the above objects.
Figs. 1 and 2 on the drawing accompanying this Specification shew one method
of combining the implements and Figs. 3 and 4 an alternative method of combination,
but I prefer the combination shewn in Figs. 3 and 4.
The appliance consists of a haft or handle A which may be be made as a light
casting in brass, of cast malleable iron, or other suitable metal, or of thin plate
stamped out and riveted together.
At one end of the haft A is an arrangement consisting of a hook B and cam C
for use in opening or screwing up the screwed stoppers of bottles as hereinafter
described, the hook may be made in steel or cast malleable iron, and the cam in
steel cast into the haft when the baft is in brass, or when the haft is in cast
malleable iron it may form part of the casting. This hook can be shut up when
required into the position shewn by dotted lines.
At the opposite end of the haft is a steel knite D. for cutting the wires of wired
bottles; in the arrangement shewn by Figs. 1 and 2 the knife is fixed and cast into

page_text: the haft, but in that shewn by Figs. 3 and 4 it is hinged and can be shut up when
required into the position shewn by dotted lines. The knife in either case is to be
made in steel.
A plug E. for use in opening ball stoppered bottles is placed on one side of the
haft and riveted through it in the arrangement shewn by Figs. 1 and 2, but in that
shewn by Figs. 3 and 4 it is placed in such a position upon the haft that the hook
when shut up is over it; in this case the plug may be cast as part of the haft if
preferred.
A screw or worm F. for use in opening corked bottles is so arranged that when
-shut up it lies within the haft, but can be readily opened out when required for use,
this screw is of any ordinary pattern and made in steel.
The appliance may be either bronzed or nickel plated.
The method of using the various implements is as follows;
(a) For screw stoppered bottles―
The hook B already described having been passed around the screwed stopper of
bottle, turning the handle A and cam C to the left will unscrew the stopper, and
similarly the hook having been passed around the screwed stopper in the reverse
direction, turning the handle and cam to the right will screw up the stopper.
(b) For ball stoppered bottles-
The plug E having been inserted into the neck of a ball stoppered bottle, pressure
on the opposite side will open the bottle.
(c) For corked bottles with or without wiring-
The screw F and knife D to be used in the ordinary manner.
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 combination in one appliance of the several implements herein described
and shewn' for opening various bottles arranged in a portable and serviceable form
.for general use.
Dated this 19th dex of June 1801
BROOKE MARTIN.