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US 4,414,865 AGranted
Beverage bottle and can opener
OwnerPaul Brooks, John P. Brooksinventors
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Abstract
A combined opener for removing a twist-off bottle cap and the lift-off tab of a beverage can. The opener body is provided with a downwardly opening recess formed with protuberances adapted to complementarily mate with the knurls of a twist-off bottle cap. The body is also formed with a socket that receives the pull-tab of a beverage can
Claims6
A combined opener for a twist-off bottle cap on a beverage can lift-off tab, said opener comprising:
- a body member provided with a downwardly opening recess formed about its periphery with protuberances adapted to complementarily mate with the knurls of said bottle cap;
- a horizontal socket extending outwardly from one side of said recess, said socket being formed with a tunnel to receive said lift-off tab;
- a downwardly depending peripheral lip member circumferentially disposed about said side of said recess, said horizontal socket formed in one piece formation with said side of said recess and said lip member;
- and,
- with said body member being rotated when said recess is applied over a twist-off bottle cap to facilitate the removal of said cap from said bottle, and said body member being raised upwardly when said socket is applied over the lift-off tab of a can to lift said tab from said can.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.