Patent ID: 7395737

Claim:
A bottle opener, comprising: a housing having an inner cavity extending therethrough; a pair of clamping handles, each having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein each of the upper portions is pivoted to a lower part of said housing, and each of the lower portions includes a clamping part mated with the neck of a bottle; an actuator; a first sliding block movable in a longitudinal direction with respect to the inner cavity of said housing; a helical screw assembly, wherein an upper portion of the screw assembly has been changed in said first sliding block by a bearing member; and a second sliding block slidably mounted in said inner cavity along the longitudinal direction and restrained between a bottom plane of said inner cavity and a lower surface of said first sliding block, wherein said second sliding block includes a screw passage therethrough adapted to receive said helical screw; latch means having a pair of first springs adapted to selectively latch said second sliding block; and clutch means adapted to transfer a driving force of longitudinal movement from said first sliding block to said second sliding block, wherein said clutch means includes a pair of connection members and a pair of second springs, wherein each of said connection members respectively includes an upper portion having a hole for receiving a raised portion of said first sliding block, a middle portion rotatably installed on two opposite sides of said second sliding block, the middle portion having a hole for receiving a boss extending radially from each side of the second sliding block, wherein the second springs are respectively installed between said second sliding block and lower portions of said connection member, wherein the first hole receiving the raised portion of the first sliding block located at the upper porton of the connection member is spaced from the second hole receiving the boss from the second sliding block, the second hole being spaced from the lower portion of the connection block securing the second spring thereby placing the second hole between the first hole and the spring wherein said second sliding block is locked while said clutch means is under a separate state and said second sliding block is released while the clutch means is under an assembled state.