Improved Means for Extracting Corks from Bottles and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 23rd May, 1890-Accepted. 28th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Extracting Corks from Bottles and the like.
1 HENRY SEWARD BOWLES GOODALL of 7 Bartletts Buildings, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to improved means for extracting corks from bottles and the
like, and has for its object the safe extraction of the cork, in a more ready and
efficient manner than heretofore.
In carrying my invention into practical effect I form of metal or any other
suitable material, a lever device, consisting of two suitably shaped bars of metal
or other material, placed one over the other, and which are fastened together in
that position, near one end, by two flat pieces of metal or other suitable material,
placed one on each side of the said bars, which said flat pieces have two slots cut
therein in each piece, one perpendicular and the other horizontal, through which pass
rivets, firmly securing the under bar to the flat pieces, but allowing the top piece to
move freely about in the aforesaid slots.
The lower bar, at the end nearest to where it is fastened to the other bar, terminates
in a semicircle, which fits on the neck of the bottle and attains the purchase required
to draw the cork, while the like end of the top bar, terminates in a slight hook,
which fits into a hole provided for that purpose, in the handle of an ordinary
corkscrew.
The other ends of the two bars are shaped so that they can be firmly grasped by
the person drawing the cork.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Extracting Corks from Bottles and the like.
1 HENRY SEWARD BOWLES GOODALL, of 7 Bartletts Buildings Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex Merchant, 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 improved means for extracting corks from bottles and
the like, and has for its object the safe extraction of the cork, in a more ready and
efficient manner than heretofore.
And in order that my said invention may be more readily understood, I have made
reference to the same on the accompanying drawing, wherein is shewn a view of the
appliance in use.
A are two pieces of metal or other material, formed as shewn, the under piece
riveted at D to plates B, one on each side, of the form shewn, having slots Ċ cut
therein.
The upper piece A is pivoted at D' to the said plates B, so that when the handle H
is pressed downward or upward, the pivots travel along the slots C, thereby always
maintaining the position of the hooked end E directly over the mouth of the
bottle.
The end E terminates in a slight hook, which passes through a hole formed in the
handle part of an ordinary corkscrew.

page_text: The end G of the lower piece terminates in a half circle or collar which fits
over the neck of the bottle and supplies the resisting power necessary to extract
the cork.
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 form of the plates B having slots C, and acting as hereinbefore shewn and
described, and for the purpose set forth.
2. The combination of the various parts in conjunction with the plate B, substantially
as hereinbefore shewn and described, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated th: 02-11
SM 1800
HUGHES & SON,
5, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.