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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001871 | Corkscrew A corkscrew (1) with fulcrum moving and acting alternately in two different positions: the first one to screw the worm into the cork; the second one to extract it. The three operations (screwing, extracting and ejecting the cork) take place with a single reci... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7775140 | Cork extractor A cork extractor significantly reduces the countervailing forces that must be applied to a bottle during extraction of a cork by providing a handle having a rotational axis substantially perpendicular to the vertical, longitudinal axis of a cork as it is removed fro... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7437972 | Apparatus for fastening and loosening a lid from a container The device performs the function of opening and/or closing lids attached to containers, and more particularly child-proof lids in at least some embodiments. The device preferably includes a base, a post, a lever, a plate to engage the lid of a container, and a mecha... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7421831 | System and method for simultaneous capping/de-capping of storage containers in an array The system for removing or replacing caps for vials in a fixed array includes a removable cartridge with a plurality of sets of gripper plates corresponding to the number of columns in the array. Each plate has a plurality of gripper arms corresponding to the number... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7398709 | Cork extractor Apparatus for extracting a cork from a bottle comprises a corkscrew mounted in a carrier, the carrier being mounted on a frame for longitudinal reciprocating movement with respect to the longitudinal axis of the corkscrew and the corkscrew being rotatably mounted on... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395737 | Bottle opener A bottle opener including a housing with a inner cavity; a pair of clamping handles having upper portions coupled to the lower portions of the housing, and the lower portions including clamping portions configured to mate with the neck of the bottle. Also included a... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7370556 | Corkscrew A corkscrew comprising a body and a handle, the body including a socket adapted to receive the neck of a bottle sealed by a cork, an actuation lever, an axially rotatable worm spiral mounted on a carriage within the body and arranged to rotate and penetrate the cork... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7287446 | Rack and pinion bottle opener with insert A cork removal apparatus utilizes a rack and pinion mechanism and conventional corkscrew assembly to remove a cork from the neck of a bottle. The apparatus includes a yoke for retaining a handle portion of the corkscrew assembly and a retainer for retaining and posi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7240600 | Rifle charging handle with ambidextrous latch A charging handle for a rifle having a housing. The handle has a body with an elongated bar having a forward end and a rear end. The bar has a bolt engaging element at the forward end, and a crossbar having an intermediate portion connected to the rear end of the ba... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234375 | Electric air pressure corkscrew An electric air pressure corkscrew includes an upper shell for containing a motor driving a speed-reducing gear unit, which then turns a rotatable block contained in a lower shell fixed in the upper shell. The rotatable block then pushes an interactive block to reci... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7204171 | Apparatus for fastening and loosening a lid from a container The device performs the function of opening and/or closing lids attached to containers, and more particularly child-proof lids in at least some embodiments. The device preferably includes a base, a post, an arm, a mechanism that converts straight movement to rotatio... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7159488 | Cork bottle opener A cork bottle opener is disclosed. The cork bottle opener comprises a stand, a clamping element, a cork opening element and a cork removing element. The clamping element holds the bottle neck when the bottle is being opened. Spinning a turning crank drives the cork ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152506 | Push opener Disclosed is a push opener suitable for removing a cap (12) fitted to an opening of a bottle (10). The push opener includes an intermediate lid (31) having an elongate arm, a first operation arm (32) formed with an engagement projection t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146878 | Ink container opener An ink container opener has a base member having an opening for receiving a cap of an ink container and a holder member which is inserted over a body of the ink container. The holder and base member each has a first arm and a second arm substantially perpendicular t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146879 | Champagne bottle opener The Champagne Bottle Opener, a hand manipulable device is described for removing mushroom-shaped stoppers from sparkling beverage bottles. It includes a pair of bifurcated jaws and opposing handles about a common pivot wherein each jaw contains improvements over pri... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7124663 | Bottle opener A bottle opener includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes an engaging section. The second member comprises a cap-removal portion and a grip portion. One of the first member and the second member includes two slots defined therein. An axl... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7114233 | Engine cover puller A device for facilitating the separation and removal of an engine cover from a sealing surface on an engine. The engine cover puller may reduce or eliminate the deformation of an engine cover during its removal and allows for its potential reuse. In addition, the en... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7107873 | Inkjet cartridge top remover and method Disclosed is a device and method for removing the lid of an inkjet cartridge. The device holds the cartridge within two jaws, which secure only the bottom of the cartridge. A driving mechanism is used to pop off the top of the cartridge in order that it may be refil... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7069815 | Container opener A container opener comprising a handle portion on which force is applicable when removing a lid from a container and a utility portion for engaging with said lid to be removed from said container, one or both of said portions are generally made of a resilient but re... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069825 | Corkscrew A corkscrew comprising a body and a handle, the body including a socket adapted to receive the neck of a bottle sealed by a cork, an actuation lever, an axially rotatable worm spiral mounted on a carriage within the body and arranged to rotate a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069813 | Corkscrew A corkscrew comprising a body and a handle, the body including a socket adapted to receive the neck of a bottle sealed by a cork, an actuation lever, an axially rotatable worm spiral mounted on a carriage within the body and arranged to rotate a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7024965 | Semi-automatic jar opener The present disclosure is a semi-automatic jar opener made up of a lower part including a run button activating an electric motor mounted under the lower part, which allows a lower plate to turn and activate a gear rack allowing the lower jaws provided with non-skid... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024715 | Cork screw provided with a cap cutter which can be inserted in the handle A bottle opener is disclosed with a corkscrew and a cap cutter, which can be used separately from the corkscrew, wherein the corkscrew can also be used when the cap cutter is arranged on the corkscrew. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013757 | Beverage container opening device A device including a body portion having proximal and distal end areas, and defining an internal cavity opening at the distal end area, and a channel that extends along a perimeter of the internal cavity in a spiral inclined planar configuration leading from the ope... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6981431 | Cork extractor for corks of bottles of champagne, sparkling wine, prosecco, cider or the like In a cork extractor for corks of bottles of champagne, sparkling wine, prosecco, cider or the like, wherein a build-up portion of said cork surrounds the front side of the bottleneck while a driving collar of the corkscrew engages the build-up portion of said cork f... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6978696 | Corkscrew A corkscrew for easily removing a cork from a wine bottle in the manner wherein a holding screw fixedly inserted in the cork is raised, even by a weak force, by rotating a removal handle, which is spirally coupled to a conveying screw integrally extended in a line f... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6871566 | Cap opening system and method for opening cap A cap opening system which can handle various containers having caps and container bodies of different sizes is disclosed. In this system, when a cap of a container is to be opened, a container body of the container is gripped by a container body holding apparatus t... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6854361 | Jar opener A Jar Opener includes a beam, a handle, a fixed jaw, and a movable jaw. The Jar Opener is able to securely clamp a jar lid between the fixed jaw and the movable jaw, and the beam and handle are then turned to open the jar. The Jar Opener functions as a lever arm to ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6823760 | Cork extractor A winged corkscrew has a lock box that prevents a non-stick coated worm from turning in a reverse direction and slipping out of a cork when two wings of the corkscrew are closed. The lock box locks onto a collar on a main shaft of the cork screw, and thereafter, a c... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6799490 | Lever corkscrew A lever corkscrew has a body and a central spindle received inside the body. A transport assembly is slidably mounted inside the body, and two anchors securely are mounted on the one side of the transport assembly. Two arms with tooth-like protrusions are pivoted wi... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6736030 | Champagne cork remover A hand tool with a U-shaped cutout to slide into the groove at the top of a champagne bottle, and pivoted lever-arms above the cutout straddling the stopper of the bottle. Extractor links connected to these lever-arms, are hinged at the outer end, and have teeth acr... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6637295 | Cork remover for champagne bottles or the like A cork remover for removing corks from bottles, particularly bottles having substantial internal gas pressure, such as champagne bottles, includes a tapered, generally tubular part, which is placed over the shoulder of the bottle. A hollow, threaded, tubu... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6622330 | Corkscrew A corkscrew has an external tubular body having a mouth forming a support over a bottle, a spiral introducible into a cork when rotating the corkscrew, a support for supporting the spiral, and an actuating unit including a toothing provided on the tubular... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6530295 | Corkscrew spacer A spacer and method for facilitating removal of a cork from a bottle with a corkscrew. The spacer has a bottom surface that abuts the bottle, a top surface that abuts the bottom of a corkscrew, and a side opening that is sufficiently large to receive the ... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6427556 | Centering device for corkscrew A device to center and align to the wormscrew of a corkscrew the neck of a bottle of any diameter whatsoever from which the cork is to be extracted, wherein a receptacle cone is located at the base of a collection tube and is retractable with respect to t... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6386069 | Stopper extractor The present invention pertains to a manually operated stopper extractor device arranged to engage a bottle of carbonated liquid to remove the stopper. The extractor device includes a frame arranged to be centered about the neck of the bottle and a side su... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6357322 | Inclined rack and spiral radius pinion corkscrew machine An invented corkscrew machine includes a rotatable spiral radius pinion gear mechanically coupled to an annular collar and engaging an inclined gear rack for translating a driver up and down carrying a freely rotating, helical corkscrew. A crank rotates t... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6257091 | Automatic decapper An automatic decapper removes caps from capped test tubes by gripping the cap on a test tube with the upper grippers and holding the cap stationary while the test tube is rotated and translated downward with lower grippers. In a preferred embodiment, the ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6176154 | Manually operated corkscrew with graduated support point description A manually operated corkscrew for removing a stopper from a mouth of a bottle is described. The corkscrew includes a body and a support arm, with an edge, pivotally connected to the body. A ringlet, for removable insertion into the stopper, is pivotally c... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6116116 | Corkscrew with ribbed arm An improved corkscrew having a main body or lever (1), whose intermediate section has a shaft (2) on which a helicoidal thread (3) swings and in whose end there is another shaft (7) by which a second ribbed arm (8) swings, having on its two sides two groo... | 09/12/2000 |
