B67B 7/02
Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers: for removing stoppers
Official title: for removing stoppers
B67B7/02 (Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers: for removing stoppers) appears on 352 US grants and 247 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B67B- Granted patents
- 352
- Published applications
- 247
- Assignees
- 132
- Inventors
- 556
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 13 | 0 |
| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 6 |
| 2002 | 12 | 11 |
| 2003 | 11 | 15 |
| 2004 | 11 | 16 |
| 2005 | 7 | 11 |
| 2006 | 9 | 9 |
| 2007 | 11 | 16 |
| 2008 | 9 | 6 |
| 2009 | 4 | 7 |
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| 2011 | 3 | 8 |
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| 2017 | 10 | 12 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15 |
| 2019 | 8 | 14 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10 |
| 2021 | 11 | 4 |
| 2022 | 8 | 13 |
| 2023 | 9 | 12 |
| 2024 | 9 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Corkscrew6 Oct 2026US D1,151,123 S1Innovative Openers, LLC · Design
- Corkscrew with cork integrity protection apparatus15 Sep 2026US 12,735,308 B2
- Tool for seizing and ejecting closure plugs for tubes receiving samples to be analysed, and use of such a tool25 Aug 2026US 12,715,747 B2Biomerieux
- Mechanism for driver head adjustment14 Apr 2026US 12,600,612 B2Thermo Fisher Scientific (Shanghai) Instruments Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for removing an internal closure from a container23 Dec 2025US 12,503,350 B2
- Method for emptying beverage containers17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274638 A1
- Handgrip Corkscrew2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184552 A1
- Apparatus and method for removing an internal closure from a container12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070773 A1
- Axially Aligned Tandem Penetrator for a Corkscrew18 Dec 2025US 2025/0382167 A1
- Corkscrew14 Aug 2025US 2025/0256949 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic test tube plug extraction apparatus75US 4,982,553 A1991
- Pressurized cork-removal apparatus for wine bottles and other containers72US 5,020,395 A1991
- Wine bottle closure61US 5,662,233 AInnovative Molding · 1997
- Inclined rack and spiral radius pinion corkscrew machine57US 6,357,322 B1Williams-Sonoma, Inc. · 2002
- Cork-extracting apparatus51US 4,703,673 AHallen Company · 1987