Combination of a bottle and cork

Abstract

The present invention relates to devices for corking bottles, and more particularly to the corking of glass bottles having necks containing a cork with an upper portion which rises above a rim, and may be used for corking bottles. A device for corking bottles contains a neck with a rim, and a cork, an end portion of the rim having protrusions, providing the ability to raise the cork by rotating same by the upper portion thereof. The neck, rim and upper portion of the cork are rectangular and/or oval in horizontal cross-section. The neck and rim are, on the two wide sides thereof, made in the form of parallel flat common surfaces. The narrow sides of the rim are hook-shaped.

Claims

1. A combination of a bottle and a cork, wherein the bottle comprises: a neck having two parallel lateral flat sides, two convex sides, a rim with outwardly extending hooks on the convex sides of the neck, a top end, the top end of the neck including a horizontal face and protrusions disposed on the horizontal face of the top end and arranged along opposite parallel lateral flat sides of the neck; and the cork comprises a handle, a part of the cork located above the top end of the neck, having two long sides, which are flat and parallel to each other, the two long sides of the handle being positioned between the protrusions, extending substantially parallel to long sides of the handle when the cork seals the bottle; and wherein when the cork is rotated, a lower side of the handle moves up and over vertexes of the protrusions so as to cause translational movement of the cork in an axial direction out of the neck.

2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein the protrusions are arc shaped.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) While the drawings show the most preferred embodiment of the claimed device design, other variations are possible without altering the combination of claimed essential features of the present invention.

(2) FIGS. 1-6 of the drawings show orthographic and perspective views of the claimed invention, including:

(3) a neck 1,

(4) a rim 2,

(5) a cork 3,

(6) a handle 4,

(7) protrusions 5 and 6,

(8) flat side members 7 and 8,

(9) convex ends 9 and 10, hooks 11 and 12.

(10) While no bottle or joint between the bottle and the neck 1 is shown in the drawings, since they are not essential features determining the claimed essence of the invention, those skilled in the art will easily embody them in technical practice.

(11) FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a device for corking bottles (hereinafter ‘the device’) with a handle 4 being in the position of when the bottle is closed with the cork 3.

(12) FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the device with the handle 4 being in the position of when the bottle is closed with the cork 3.

(13) FIG. 3 is a top view of the device with the handle 4 being in the position of when the bottle is closed with the cork 3.

(14) FIG. 4 is a top view of the device with the handle 4 in its lateral position (an early phase of the cork 3 removal from the rim 2).

(15) FIG. 5 is a longitudinal view of the device with the handle 4 being in the position of the early phase of the cork 3 removal from the rim 2.

(16) FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the device it the closed state.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(17) As shown in the drawings, the lateral long sides 7 and 8 of the neck 1 and the rim 2 have common parallel surfaces.

(18) The narrow sides of a portion of the neck adjacent to the rim are tapered towards the latter, the neck surface being convex at the sides 9 and 10. The tapering may have a variety of configurations.

(19) The rim 2 portions at the narrow sides are configured as sideways hooks 11 and 12. The hooks may also be flat-shaped or shaped such as to mate with the suspenders.

(20) The claimed invention (device) functions as follows.

(21) In the initial state (when the bottled is closed), the handle 4 long side is positioned along the rim 2 within the protrusions 5 and 6.

(22) In the early phase of the bottle opening, the bottle is gripped by one hand at its flat neck 1, while the handle 4 is being rotated by the other hand holding it at its long lateral sides in any direction until the handle 4 is brought in a transversal position relative to the rim 2.

(23) At this time, the handle 4, at its lower surface, engages with the protrusions 5 and 6, reaching their vertexes when in the transversal position relative to the neck 1 and the rim 2; the cork 3, fixedly coupled to the handle 4, undergoing rotational and translational motion, is pulled out from the rim 2 of the neck 1.

(24) By acting on the handle 4 at its long sides and holding the neck 1 at its flat side members 7 and 8, a considerable force may be produced facilitating initial breakaway of the cork 3 (in the direction of rotation thereof, while being pulled out of the rim).

(25) Hereafter the handle 4 may be gripped not only at its lateral portions, but also at its lower portions to turn it in the horizontal plane and to rock it from side to side while pulling the cork 3 out, thus making the cork removal much easier.

(26) Corking of the bottle for further temporary storage until next use is also facilitated.

(27) The beverage is poured out along the rim 2 lateral surface, both along its wide and narrow sides, across the protrusions 5 and 6.

(28) Currently, those skilled in the art will have no difficulty in manufacturing the components of the present invention in their entire combination, as with the state-of-the-art materials and technologies they may be serially produced at industrial scale.

(29) The cork is manufactured from food-grade synthetic materials well known to those skilled in the art, and the handle may be manufactured from either synthetic materials, or glass.

(30) No explanation of how to couple the cork to the handle is needed, since it is well known to those skilled in the art in both mechanical and technological aspects.

(31) The claimed design is, therefore, novel and industrially applicable and provides the functionality to securely cork and uncork a bottle by initial breakaway of the cork, simultaneous rotation and pulling the cork out through the engagement between the handle's lower portion and the protrusions at the rim's upper portion, followed by simultaneous rotation, rocking from side to side and pulling the cork out, all these being possible by firmly gripping and holding the flat neck with one hand and the upper portion of the cork with the other hand by both right- and left-handed persons.

(32) Furthermore, with the hooks at both sides of the rim's narrow portion, the bottle may be stored suspended in a vertical position.