IMPROVEMENTS IN CORK SCREWS OR CORK EXTRACTORS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Guy Wilson, of the British and Foreign Patent
Office, 71, Market Street, in the City of Manchester, Engineer and Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORK SCREWS OR CORK
EXTRACTORS." A communication from abroad by Bernhard Winkler, of Muskau,
dam of Prussia, in the Empire of Germany.
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11the 22nd June 1880, and dated the 23rd December 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Guy Wilson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd December 1879.
JOHN GUY WILSON, of the British and Foreign Patent Office, 71, Market Street,
"IMPROVE-
in the City of Manchester, Mechanical Engineer and Patent Agent.
MENTS IN CORK SCREWS OR CORK EXTRACTORS." A communication from abroad by
Bernhard Winkler, of Muskau, Kingdom of Prussia, in the Empire of Germany.
The object of these improvements is the construction of a cork screw or cork
extractor whereby bottles can be uncorked in less time than has hitherto been
practicable, and without so injuring the corks as to render them unserviceable for
0 future use.
In accordance with one modification of this Invention a metallic rod is provided
having at its upper end a loop, or ring, or other convenient form of handle, and at
its lower end a pointed shovel or half spear which is so shaped as to correspond on
its inner side with the shape of the cork, and on its outer side with the inner
5 surface of the neck of the bottle. The action of this modification is as follows:-
The shovel being thin enough for the purpose is passed between the cork and the
neck of the bottle sufficiently far to allow it to turn round below the cork to about
a right angle, when the upper end of the shovel, which may be provided with a
20 bottom of the cork, and so withdraws such cork without causing any injury to the
suitable point, in the act of withdrawing the apparatus comes in contact with the
same except the small incision made by the point. Another modification of this
Invention serving the purpose of withdrawing shallow corks consists of a similar rod
having its lower extremity curved to the shape of the cork on the inner side, and
25 point with an angular projection from which protrudes upwards a sharp point. This
to the inner surface of the neck of the bottle on the outer side, and provided at its
part of the improved cork extractor is placed upon the upper surface of the cork
Dear its periphery, and being pressed down the cork is so caused to tilt over on its
Bide in the neck of the bottle; through the orifice thus produced the extremity
30 of the cork, when the same may be withdrawn without injury as in the last
of the cork extractor is passed until the sharp point catches hold of the periphery
mentioned modification.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of un
Cuers Patent filed by
the said John Guy Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
June 1880.
ic] JOHN GUG WILSON, of the British and Foreign Patent Office, 71, Market Street,
A communication from abroad by Bernhard"
in the City of Manchester, Engineer and Patent Agent.
SCREWS OR CORK EXTRACTORS."
'IMPROVEMENTS IN CORK
Windler, of Muskaw, Kingdom of Prussia, in the Empire of Germany.
or cork
extractor whereby bottles can be uncorked in less time than has hitherto been
practicable, and without so injuring the corks as to render them unserviciable for
future use.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents a front view, and Fig. 3 a side
or edge view of one modification of this improved cork extractor, and Figs. 2 and 4
represent respectively a front sectional view and partial plan of the neck of
bottle with a cork in the act of being extracted in accordance with this Invention.
In all the views a is a metallic rod provided at its upper end with a loop or ring b
or other convenient form of handle, and at its lower end with a pointed shovel or
half spear c, which
which is so shaped (as seen most clearly in Fig. 4) as to correspond on
its inner side with the shape of the cork, and on its outer side with the inner surface
of the neck of the bottle e. The action of this modification is as follows:-The
shovel c being thin enough for the purpose is passed between the cork f and the
neck of the bottle e sufficiently far to allow it to turn round below the cork to
about a right angle, when the upper edge of the shovel, which may be provided
with a suitable point d, in the act of withdrawing the apparatus comes in contact
with the bottom of the cork, and so withdraws such corks without causing any
injury to the same except the small incision made by the point d.
Another modification of this Invention serving the purpose of withdrawing
shallow corks is illustrated in front view in Fig 5, in side sectional view in Fig. S
and in partial sectional plan in Fig. 9; the shank a' of this apparatus is similarly
provided with a loop or ring b₁, or other suitable handle commonly used for
corkscrews, and at its lower extremity with a tapered shovel c¹ provided with a
point projecting upwards, as illustrated; the back side of the shovel c' is curved
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so as to correspond with the inner surface of the neck of the bottle.
is placed on the top of the cork near its edge or periphery, as seen in Fig. 6, and
The method of withdrawing a cork with this apparatus is as follows:-The shovel c
then is pressed down, when the cork being shorter in length than in diameter is
easily caused to tilt over on its side, as indicated in Fig. 7; this done, the shovel d
pushed down inside the neck of the bottle until the point d' passes below the
cork, so that when the apparatus is withdrawn again the point d' lays hold of the
periphery of the cork and draws it out sideways without injury.
injured in the act of being withdrawn.
It will thus be apparent that with this improved cork extractor very shallow
corks may be extracted and used over and over again, seeing that they are not
nicated to me from abroad, as aforesaid, together with the best methods with which
Having thus practiciably described the nature of the said Invention so commu
I am acquainted for carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be
understood that I claim,-

page_text: Constructing corkscrews or cork extractors, substancially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Guy Wilson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty second day of June, in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
JOHN GUY WILSON. (LS.)