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US 11,198,601 B2Granted
Corkscrew and bottle opener apparatus
AssigneeNoah Greenstein
InventorNoah Greenstein
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a pocket-sized corkscrew, bottle opener, and key chain combination apparatus that can be used to open corked and capped bottles, which when stored shields the corkscrew tip, and which can be converted from its storage configuration to its corked-bottle opener configuration with requiring disassembly of the pieces of the apparatus.
Claims15
An apparatus capable of opening capped and corked bottles comprising:
- a first piece comprising a corkscrew with a point at one end and a bottle opener with a slot capable of receiving a rigid object at the opposite end;
- and
- a second piece comprising a flexible strand connected to a keyring;
- wherein the first piece is connected to the second piece through the flexible strand and the first piece and the second piece of the apparatus can be arranged in at least two modes comprising;
- a first mode wherein the flexible strand portion of the second piece is wound around the corkscrew portion of the first piece such that the corkscrew point is shielded;
- and
- a second mode wherein the flexible strand portion of the second piece is unwound such that the second piece does not interfere with use of the corkscrew.
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An apparatus capable of opening capped and corked bottles comprising:
- a first piece comprising a corkscrew with a point at one end and a bottle opener with a slot capable of receiving a rigid object at the opposite end;
- and
- a second piece comprising a flexible strand connected to a keyring;
- wherein the first piece is connected to the second piece through the flexible strand and the first piece and the second piece of the apparatus can be arranged in at least two modes comprising;
- a first mode wherein the flexible strand portion of the second piece is wound around the corkscrew portion of the first piece such that the corkscrew point is shielded;
- and
- a second mode wherein the flexible strand portion of the second piece is unwound such that the second piece does not interfere with use of the corkscrew and a rigid object is inserted into the slot capable of receiving a rigid object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.