Cap remover
OwnerHiroshi Kichijyoinventor
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Abstract
A cap remover for uncapping a bottle easily only by pushing down a pusher or a lever or by gripping a lever. The lever is pivotally mouted to a main body having an opening for receiving and holding the cap and mouth of the bottle. A vertically extending hooking member provided with a hook portion at its bottom end for engaging the undersurface of the rim of the cap is pivotally mounted at its top end to an end of the lever so that pivoting of the lever lifts the hooking member and prys the cap from the bottle. Uncapping can be effected by one hand, without tilting or tumbling the bottle and spilling contents.
Claims12
A cap remover for removing a cap having an exposed rim undersurface from the mouth of a bottle, comprising:
- a main body having an opening in the bottom thereof for receiving the mouth of a bottle with a cap thereon, with main body including in said opening a lower surface and an upper surface above said lower surface for respectively engaging the mouth and the cap;
- a lever pivotally mounted to said main body to pivot about a first axis;
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- a hooking member having a hook portion at a lower end thereof for engaging the rim undersurface of the cap pivotally mounted to said lever for pivoting about a second axis spaced from said first axis with said upper and lower surfaces respectively engaging the cap and the mouth of the bottle, whereby pivoting of said lever about said first axis lifts said hooking member upward with respect to said upper and lower surfaces to pry said cap from the said bottle.
A cap remover for removing a cap having an exposed rim undersurface from the mouth of a bottle, comprising:
- a main body having an opening in the bottom thereof for receiving the mouth of a bottle with a cap thereon, said main body having sidewalls in said opening for engaging the mouth;
- a lever pivotally mounted to said main body to pivot about a first axis;
- a vertically moveable hooking member, having a hook portion at a lower end thereof for engaging in a cap engaging vertical position thereof the rim undersurface of the cap, pivotally mounted to said lever for pivoting relative to said lever about a second axis spaced from said first axis;
- a pusher member vertically slidably connected to said main body, downwardly moveable in response to an externally applied downward force thereon;
- means, responsive to downward movement of said pusher member from an initial vertical position, for pivoting said lever from an initial rotational position about said first axis to lift said hooking member upward from said cap engaging position to pry said cap from said bottle;
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- first spring means for restoring said pusher member, said lever and said hooking member to said initial vertical position, said initial rotational position and said cap engaging vertical position, respectively, when said hooking member is above said cap engaging vertical position and said external force is not being applied to said pusher.
A cap remover for removing a cap having an exposed rim undersurface from the mouth of a bottle, comprising:
- a main body having an opening in the bottom thereof for receiving the mouth of a bottle with a cap thereon, said main body including lower and upper internal surfaces forming boundaries of said opening shaped to hold the mouth and cap therein with said lower internal surface engaging the mouth and said upper internal surface engaging the cap;
- a vertically moveable hooking member having an upper end and a lower end and a hook portion at said lower end for engaging in a cap engaging vertical position of said hooking member the rim undersurface of the cap;
- a lever having an inner portion inside main body and a handle portion outside said main body pivotally mounted to said main body between said inside and outside portions and pivotally mounted to said hooking member at said upper end thereof, such that movement of said handle portion in a first rotational direction from a first rotational position with said lower and upper internal surfaces respectively engaging the mouth of the bottle and the cap lifts said hooking member with respect to said lower and upper internal surfaces to pry said cap from said bottle;
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- first spring means for urging said lever in a second rotational direction toward said first rotational position when said hooking member is above said cap engaging vertical position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.