DRAWING CORK FROM BOTTLES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ando Olsson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 30th October 1882.
ANDO OLSSON of Sandviken, in the Kingdom of Sweden
DRAWING CORK FROM BOTTLES
"
"APPARATUS FOR
This invention has for object improvements in apparatus for drawing corks from
bottles, and has reference to apparatus by which the cork is withdrawn by the
rotary motion of the screw which during the time the cork is actually being
withdrawn has no endwise movement.
One form of apparatus according to my invention comprises a cork screw
attached to a spirally twisted rod supported by a movable frame running along
guides.
This rod is made to rotate by means of a nut fastened to a movable cross piece
which is provided with handles and also runs along guides. A cross piece joined
to the frame is provided with a hole into which the cork is drawn by the cork-
screw; this hole on its upper part inside is furnished with plates or ribs, which
prevent the rotation of the cork whether the screw is entering it or being withdrawn
from it.
When it is desired that the apparatus should be easily portable it consists of a
corkscrew provided with a crank and loosely inserted into a bush or bearing attached
to or forming part of a socket which is placed over the neck of the bottle from
which the cork is to be withdrawn. When the screw has been inserted into the
cork so far that the socket bears on the bottle neck the further revolution
withdraws the cork.
A jaw or cutter for breaking wire over corks may be combined with the crank.
Apparatus for drawing corks according to my invention may be constructed in
various ways without departure from the essential features of my invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Ando Olsson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd April
1883.
ANDO OLSSON of Sandviken in the Kingdom of Sweden, "APPARATUS FOR
DRAWING CORK FROM BOTTLES.
This invention has for object improvements in apparatus for drawing corks from
bottles, and has reference to apparatus by which the cork is withdrawn by the
rotary motion of the screw which during the time the cork is actually being
withdrawn has no endwise movement.
One form of apparatus according to my invention comprises a cork screw
attached to a spirally twisting rod supported by a movable frame running along
guides.
This rod is made to rotate by means of a nut fastened to a movable cross-piece
which is provided with handles and also runs along guides. A cross piece joined
to the frame is provided with a hole into which the cork is drawn by the cork-
screw; this hole on its upper part side is furnished with plates or ribs, which
prevent the rotation of the cork whether the screw is entering it or being
withdrawn from it.
Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings illustrate such an arrangement of
apparatus and suitable for use when a great number of corks are required to bo
drawn. Fig. 1 is a front elevation partly in section, and Fig. 2 a plan. The apparatus
stands on a base plate a which may be fastened to a table or other support. To
this plate are fastened two rods or guides b, b, up and down which four cross
pieces c d e f can be moved. The cross pieces c and d are firmly attached to rods g, g
and support the spirally twisted or threaded rod h to whose lower end under the
cross piece d is attached the corkscrew itself. The cross pieco e has two small
rods i, which pass through holes in the cross piece d, and are at their upper ends
provided with knobs too large to pass through such holes, by which means the
cross piece e is caused to move upward with the frame formed by the cross pieces c
and d and connecting rods g after that frame has been moved upward a certain
distance without e. The cross piece c has also a hole k for the corkscrew, and
this hole is sufficiently large to contain the drawn cork and to fit the upper end of
the neck of the bottle. The cross piece f is provided with handles ll, and has
firmly attached to it a nut m, which on the cross piece of being moved up and down,
turns the rod h and the attached corkscrew. The spiral springs n, n serve to
support the cross pieces f, d e and to lessen shocks.
The mode of using the apparatus is as follows:-
The frame c d and the piece e are lifted up, thus drawing up the corkscrew into
the hole k. The bottle to be uncorked is then placed on the base a between the
rods bin such manner that the upper end of the neck of the bottle is in the middle
of the hole k; in order to facilitate this some circles may be drawn on the base a.
Thereupon the cross-piece fis moved upward by means of the two handles. On
the cross piece being moved downward the corkscrew turns and pierces the cork,
which at the end of the downward movement is drawn out of the bottle. The
bottle being uncorked can then be removed. The cork which still remains on the
corkscrew will fall off if the cross piece ƒ be raised with the one hand, while the
cross piece e is held down with the other, to facilitate which these cross pieces are
provided with projecting ears oo In order to prevent the cork from turning
during this motion, projecting plates are provided in the upper part of the hole k as
seen in Fig. 1

page_text: When it is desired that the apparatus should be easily portable I employ an
arrangement illustrated in section and plan respectively by Figs. 3 and 4. The
apparatus consists of a socket a with a bush or guide bearing b in which is loosely
inserted the corkscrew which is provided with a crank c.
In using this apparatus the socket a is placed over the upper part of the neck of
the bottle and the crank c is turned a slight pressure being used till the corkscrew
has somewhat penetrated the cork. Afterwards it is only necessary to continue to
turn in the same direction until the cork is drawn out of the bottle. The cork-
screw is afterwards freed from the cork by turning the former in the opposite
direction. By turning the crank in the opposite direction and at the same time
pressing the cork against the small teeth at the lower end of the bush the cork
may be removed without soiling the fingers.
The crank arm c is lengthened some distance beyond its axis, and is at the end
provided with a notch e, which may be used as a tool for removing the wire from
those bottles which have corks retained by wire.
Having described the nature of the said invention and the manner of performing
it what I clain is:
1. An apparatus for uncorking bottles comprising a corkscrew attached to a
spirally twisted rod supported by a movable frame able to travel along guides, a
nut on a cross piece movable along guides by handles to rotate the said rod and
a cross piece connected to the movable frame & having in it a hole into which
the cork is drawn by the corkscrew, and which hole at the upper part of its interior
is furnished with plates or ribs substantially as described.
2. An apparatus for uncorking bottles comprising a corkscrew provided with a
crank and a socket to be placed over the neck of the bottle, this socket being
furnished with a bush or guide bearing through which the corkscrew is passed and
whereby it is supported substantially as described.
In Witness whereof I the said Ando Olsson have hereunto set my hand and
seal this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.
ANDO OLSSON (L.S.)