Inventors:
Sandor Bocsi - Worcester MA
George Spector - New York NY
International Classification:
B67B 704
Abstract:
An electric corkscrew device is provided and consists of a reversible electric motor having a stationary collar and a rotatable shaft. A first sleeve is coupled to the stationary collar of the reversible electric motor, a second sleeve is slideable within the first sleeve, in which the second sleeve is formed to cooperate with a bottle neck provided with a cork. A spring is within the first sleeve to urge the second sleeve towards the bottle neck. A corkscrew spiral is driven by the rotatable shaft of the reversible electric motor and extends through the first sleeve and the second sleeve so that when the corkscrew spiral turns in one direction it can engage the cork and pull it out of the bottle neck. A mechanism is for removing the cork from the corkscrew spiral when the rotatable shaft is reversed by the reversible electric motor and the corkscrew spiral turns in an opposite direction.