Multipurpose screw

• US 6,367,353 B2
• Filed: 02/17/1999
• Issued: 04/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marta Bonich Linares, Ramon Brucart Puig
• Original Assignee: Marta Bonich Linares, Ramon Brucart Puig
• Inventors: Brucart Puig, Ramon, Bonich Linares, Marta
• Primary Examiner(s): MEISLIN, DEBRA S
• Application Number:
  US09/252,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20010039856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 81/33.7, 81/30.9, 81/33.6, 81/34.7, 81/32.9, 81/33.9, 81/34.5, 81/35.5, 81/34.8
• US Class Current: 81/3.48
• CPC Class Codes: B67B 7/0429 having means for varying the effective lever arm length

Abstract

A multipurpose corckscrew has a main body, a helical screw connected with the main body and introducible into a cork to be removed, an arm provided with an end tab and connected with the main body, a guide connecting the arm with the main body so that the arm is displaceable on the guide between a rear position and a forward position, means keeping the arm in the forward position, and elastic means pushing the arm toward the rear position.

Claims

1. multipurpose corkscrew, comprising a main body, a helical screw connected with said main body and introducible into a cork to be removed;

an arm provided with an end tab and connected with said main body;

a guide connecting said arm with said main body so that said arm is displaceable on said guide between a rear position and a forward position;

means keeping said arm in said forward position; and

elastic means pushing said arm toward said rear position, said means for keeping said arm in said forward position including a curved retainer which is rotatably connected with said main body, said retainer being formed so as to act as a crown cork lifting component when it is in an inoperative position.

2. A multipurpose corckscrew as defined in claim 1, wherein said arm has an end provided with an oblique fin for acting against said retainer when said arm is in said forward position.

3. A multipurpose corckscrew as defined in claim 1, wherein said elastic means include a helical spring having two opposite ends connected to said arm and to said guide.

4. A multipurpose corckscrew as defined in claim 3, wherein said arm and said guide are provided with a lug, said helical spring having ends fixed to said lugs.