Improvements in Cork Pullers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Improvements in Cork Pullers.
"I'HARRISON SMITH MARTIN Manufacture of 512 N. Capital. Street
Washington DC.U.S A. 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
Thus, mvention relates to improvements in cotkpullers, and has special reference
to that, portion thereof designed to support a bottle during the insertion of 'the
Screw.
The objects of the invention are to provide an attachment designed to apply to
airy ordinary colk-puller now, in use, and which will support in a convenient manner
& bottle dining, the insertion of the screw, to so: construct the attachment as
to adapt it to fit various diameters of bottle necks, to adapt it to fit various
depths of heads or beads; and furthermore, so. as to be swung aside out of operative
position
Va arious other objects, and advantages of the invention will appear in the
following descriptiou, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed
out in the claims.
Refering to the drawing:
Figure 1, is,a side elevation of a cork-puller embodying my invention.
Figure 2,, is a plan and,side view of one form of the bottle neck support.
Figure 3, is a plan,and side view of the segment or pinion wheel "employed 'for
operating the mechanism of the cork-screws.
Figures 4 and 5, show, an elevation and plan, of a modification of the bottle
support.
Figure 6, shows a similar form of bottle support with a different stop mechanism.
Figures 7, 8, and 9, show another modification of the bottle support, adapted to
open sufficiently to engage bottle necks of various sizes.
Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawing
1, designates the clamp, for engaging the edge of the bar or other-support, and
from which, at its upper end, the neck, 2, extends, the same supporting at its upper
end the barrel, 3, containing the screw and its operating mechanism
Thus far I have described merely the ordinary cousti uction of a corkpuller, and it
remains to provide some convenient, cheap and efficient means for holding and
supporting the necks of bottles during the insertion of the screw. This invention
consists, therefore, in the means. hereinafter described for accomplishing the purpose
In view.
The connecting neck, 2, between the clamp, 1, and the bariel, 3, 18 provided
with a vertical and in this instance, cylindrical perforation, and arranged for
vertical movement therein is the screw or bolt, 14, whose upper end' 15 threaded.
In Figures 4, 5 and 7, transversely through the neck, 2, and impinging upon the
bolt, 4, is a binding screw, 5, and upon the upper end of the bolt, 4, which extends
though the neeb, 2, 18.a milled nut, 6, which may be used to naise and lower the
bottle support, 7, when, the screw, 5, 1s.loosened
7, indicates the bottle,support and embracing prongs, which may be hinged and
separable, as shown in Figures 7, 8 and 9, and which, when combined, represents a
rest of Ushape, the, position of the bottle when embraced thereby being directly
under and line with the scien
8, is a cone-shaped aperture through the bottle-support, 7, which admits of a

page_text: forward movement of the support, 7, which forward. movement disengages the
lugs. 9 from the fixed plate, 10, and permits of the support being sn ung pivotally
upon the bolt, 4, out of line with the barrel.
11, is the lever for operating the screw mechanism, and 18 swung upon the
pivot, 12, and having an extending arm beyond the pivot, connection being made
to the segment, 13, at a proper point on the extended portion by means of the
screw, 14, thus securing great leverage and ease of action.
In Figme 6 the bottle support, 7, is held in line with the banel by means of the
sping stop, 15, the upper end of which, when the support is in line with the bariel,
is entered into the hole. 16, in the neck, 2, and by depressing the stop, 15, so as
to withdraw it from the aperture an 16, the support, 7, may be swung out of line
with the baricl
17, indicates a coiled sping around the bolt, 4, which by its sprending action-
firmly holds the support, 7, at a point is far below the neck, 2, as the milled nut, 6,
will permut
In Figures 7 and 8, the bottle support, 7, is shown as hinged and separable into
two members, the rear ends of which extend backwand a sufficient distance to
admit of the passage through them of the bolt, 18, which has upon it a
coiled spring, 19, and by means of this mechanism the prongs of the support
may be sepainted to any desired extent, the bolt, 18, may also be placed in
advance of the bolt, 4, instead of behind it, as shown in Figure 9, the action
being the same
The construction in Figures 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, may be applied where it is not
necessary to provide for various diameters of bottle necks. If it is desirable
to make such a provision, the construction shown in Figmies, 7, 8 and 9 18
preferied
From this description it will be seen that the prongs of the support, 7, are
capable of opening to the extent desned to receive a bottle neck, and the head of
said neck will est upon the prongs, whereby a firm support is provided for the
bottle during the insertion of the screw It will be observed that the support is
constructed so that when the bottle is placed between the prongs of the support, 7,
aud shoved backwardly to its limit, it will be m line with the barrel, 3. und
directly under the cork-pulling mechanism. If bottles having a greater depth of
bead are to be uncorked, it is only necessary to lower the rest to the desued extent
by means of the nut, 6. Should it be desnable to uncork jars of other vessels
having an exceedingly great depth of bead, or none at all, the test can be
disengaged and swung aside in a manner as will be obvious In the form shown in
Figure 1, this will be done by lifting the prongs of the support, 7, upwardly
sufficiently to disengage the lugs, 9, from the stop plate, 10, in Figure 6 by
depressing the spring stop, 15, and in the other figuies by loosening the binding
sciew, 5.
Having thus described the invention, what I claim and desire patented le as
follows.
1. The combination with the barrel, the operating mechanism and the support of
a cork-puller, of a bottle-neck cst pivotally and adjustably supported under and in
lue with the barrel, substantially as specified
2 The combination with the barrel, operating mechanism, clamp and connecting
nech of a coth-puller, said neck having a vertical perforation, of a bolt, adjustable
in the perforation and depending below the same, and a rest for a bottle-neck
cared by the bolt, substantially as specified.
3. The combination with the barrel, operating mechanism, neck, and clamp of a
cork-puller, the latter having a vertical perforation, of a bolt swiveled in the
perforation and threaded at its upper end, a nut arranged on said upper end, a
bottle-neck receiving rest carried by the lower end of the bolt, and a sping inter-
posed between the upper end of the rest and the underside of the neck, substantially
as specified.

page_text: 4. The combination with the barrel, operating mechanism, clamp, and neck of a
cork-pullor, of a bolt depending from the neck, a pair of prongs terminating at
their rear ends in hinge-members loosely mounted on the bolt and provided with a
transverse opening, a bolt passing through the opening, and a nut on the bolt,.
substantially as specified.
5. The combination with the barrel, operating mechanism, clamp, and neck of a
cork-puller, said neck having a vertical and a horizontal threaded perforation, a
bolt arranged in the vertical perforation and having a threaded upper eud, a thumb-
nut on the upper end of the bolt, a binding screw arranged in the threaded perfora-
tion, & pair of prongs, having hinge-membors loosely arranged on the lower end of
the bolt and provided with perforations, and the transverse bolt, 18, substantially
as specified.
Dated this 17th October 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.