Cork extracting device
AssigneeWKI Holding Company, Inc.
InventorsKevin R. Lozeau, Richard C. Shonfeld
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Abstract
A cork extracting device includes a bifurcated body defining a pair of depending legs. Circumferentially spaced ribs project laterally from each leg to define guide surfaces for an extracted cork, the lower ends of the ribs defining two different-sized bottle neck seats. An oblong handle with an elastomeric covering is fixed to one end of a worm which extends through a collar in the upper end of the body and downwardly between the legs. Flexible and resilient fingers are cut from each leg and respectively carry foil cutters, the fingers being manually depressible to engage the cutters with a bottle neck foil for cutting the foil in response to rotation of the body about the bottle neck.
Claims16
Apparatus for extracting a cork from a bottle neck comprising:
- a body having a bottle neck-engaging seat,
- a corkscrew assembly including a handle and a worm and carried by the body for rotation relative thereto for screwing the worm into the cork when the bottle neck is engaged with the seat, and
- an elastomeric covering on the handle.
Apparatus for extracting corks from different-sized bottle necks having end surfaces, the apparatus comprising:
- a body having a bottle neck-receiving portion,
- first bottle neck seating structure disposed on the body and shaped and dimensioned for engaging the end surface of a bottle neck of a first size without engaging a cork closing the bottle neck,
- second bottle neck seating structure disposed on the body and shaped and dimensioned for engaging the end surface of a bottle neck of a second size without engaging a cork closing the bottle neck, and
- a corkscrew assembly including a handle and a worm and carried by the body for rotation relative thereto for screwing the worm into a cork closing a bottle neck when the bottle neck end surface is engaged with one of the seating structures.
Apparatus for extracting a cork from a bottle neck covered by a foil and having a central axis, the apparatus comprising:
- a body having spaced-apart depending legs cooperating to define a bottle neck-receiving portion,
- and a foil cutting assembly carried by at least one of the legs for movement relative thereto toward and away from a bottle neck disposed in the bottle neck-receiving portion,
- the cutting assembly including a cutter engageable with a foil covering a bottle neck disposed in the bottle neck-receiving portion for cutting the foil in response to rotation of the body relative to the bottle neck about the axis of the bottle neck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.