Patent ID: 6981431

Claim:
A cork extractor for corks of bottles, wherein a build-up portion of said cork surrounds a top end of a bottleneck of a bottle while a driving collar of the cork extractor engages a build-up portion of said cork from beneath for pulling out said cork, wherein the driving collar is liftable by means of an actuating lever in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the bottle relative to an abutment collar supported on the bottle, wherein said driving collar ( 8 ) is arranged on a first half-cylinder shell ( 1 ) and said abutment collar ( 10 ) is formed on a second, complementary half-cylinder shell ( 2 ), wherein each of said half-cylinder shells ( 1 , 2 ) comprises a recess ( 12 , 13 ) for enclosure of the build-up portion of said cork, wherein said driving collar ( 8 ) is liftable by means of said actuating lever for pulling out said cork while said cork is guided along said second half-cylinder shell ( 2 ) during lifting of the cork.