Claims
- 1. 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.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the handle includes a first part fixed to the worm and a second part attachable to the first part.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the handle is substantially oval in transverse cross section in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the worm.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the handle has a reduced neck portion fixed to the worm and substantially circular in transverse cross section.
- 5. 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.
- 6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein each of the first and second bottle neck seating structures includes a plurality of seating shoulders spaced circumferentially relative to the bottle neck-receiving portion.
- 7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein each of the first and second seating structures includes six seating shoulders.
- 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the six shoulders include three shoulders on each of two opposed sides of the bottle neck-receiving portion.
- 9. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first seating structure defines a seat for a bottle neck end surface having a first diameter and the second seating structure defines a seat for a second bottle neck end surface having a second diameter less than the first diameter.
- 10. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein each of the seating structures includes a plurality of ribs disposed on the body and projecting laterally inwardly therefrom, the lower ends of the ribs defining the first and second seating structures and the upper ends of the ribs defining guide surfaces for a cork being extracted from an associated bottle neck.
- 11. 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.
- 12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the body includes two depending legs.
- 13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the foil cutting assembly includes cutters respectively carried by the legs.
- 14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the foil cutting assembly includes a disk-like cutter mounted for rotation about an axis substantially parallel to the axis of the bottle neck.
- 15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein each of the legs includes a flexible and resilient finger thereon and movable relative to the rest of the body, each of the fingers including a cutter.
- 16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein each of the fingers is cut from the associated leg.
RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application claims the benefit of the filing date of copending U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/280,080, filed Mar. 30, 2001.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60280080 |
Mar 2001 |
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