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US3542231A
US3542231A US733022A US3542231DA US3542231A US 3542231 A US3542231 A US 3542231A US 733022 A US733022 A US 733022A US 3542231D A US3542231D A US 3542231DA US 3542231 A US3542231 A US 3542231A
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John V Wettermann
Arne W Hoili
Lars E Hoili
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/02—Caps or cap-like covers without lines of weakness, tearing strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices
    • B65D41/16—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/18—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics
    • B65D41/185—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics with integral internal sealing means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D51/00—Closures not otherwise provided for
    • B65D51/24—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes
    • B65D51/243—Closures not otherwise provided for combined or co-operating with auxiliary devices for non-closing purposes combined with an opening device
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B7/00—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers
    • B67B7/16—Hand- or power-operated devices for opening closed containers for removing flanged caps, e.g. crown caps

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  • This invention relates to an improvement to a bottle opener, particularly for crown corks which are used in enormous numbers for closing bottles, especially bottles containing goods under pressure, for example soft drinks and beer.
  • the mouths of such bottles have, through the course of the years, become standardized and, as known, such bottles are opened by the consumer, with the help of a bottle opener, bending the crown cork off inasmuch as the crinkled skirt of this expands when bent off.
  • Crown corks offer a great many advantages in that they are also cheap to produce and can be fitted onto bottles in machines which work rapidly, but they have a very significant disadvantage in that they cannot be put back onto the bottle after this has been opened and perhaps only part of the contents used.
  • a large number of different closing devices for bottles which were originally closed by means of a crown cork have seen the light of the clay, and it was natural to combine such closing devices with bottle openers so that one had both devices to hand when they were needed.
  • Such combinations have, in the course of time, become quite widespread on account of the above mentioned advantage, but the known designs also have quite significant disadvantages, inter alia that they are expensive to produce even from normal steel qualities which may be readily worked,
  • the object of this invention is primarily to arrive at an improvement to a bottle opener which is combined with a closing device in which the bottle opener is cheap to produce, hygienic, simple to use, does not consist of moving parts, and does not lead to elements of danger when being applied or removed.
  • the handle component of the bottle opener being embedded in a noncorroding material which is comparatively soft.
  • the metallic handle component of the bottle opener is protected against corrosion and a furtherelement of danger with the earlier known bottle openers is removed, namely the danger that the hard bottle opener of metal unintentionally can be struck so hard against the mouth of the bottleneck that chips are knocked loose.
  • the comparatively soft plastic material forms a shock absorber in this respect and the closing device itself is made in one piece with this material in the form of a plug of known principle and of expedient shape and size to fit into the neck of the bottle whilst this is surrounded by a circumferential edge which is to fit outside the bottleneck.
  • This invention thus relates to an improved bottle opener, particularly for crown corks, comprising a handle component and atool component in which the handle component carries a closing device for a standard bottle and it is in essence characterized by the handle component being embedded in a moulding of plastic or other comparatively soft material and by the closing device being formed in this on the one side of the handle component.
  • the closing device comprising a yielding plug which is to fit inside the neck of the bottle and, around the plug and at a distance from this, a circumferential edge which is to fit outside the flan e of the bottle mouth.
  • FIG. 1 shows, in perspective, the bottle opener and FIG. 2 shows a section through the bottle opener and the upper end of a bottleneck.
  • the tool component 1 of the bottle opener is made in the usual manner with an opening 2 which fits over about one-half of an ordinary crown cork and with a chisel part 3 which is normally placed under the edge of the crown cork for bending up the cork with the help of the handle component which, as a whole, is indicated with 4.
  • the handle component shall be embedded in a moulding of plastic or some other expedient material which, in FIG. 1, is indicated with 5, and this material shall further according to the invention carry a cork 6 which will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 2.
  • the bottle opener it may, in the manner of known principle, have a through-going hole 7 for hanging up at a suitable place.
  • a bottle 8 has been closed with the help of the cork of the bottle opener and this comprises in the example shown a plug 9 which fits into the mouth of the bottle and a circumferential edge 10 which fits outside this and holds the cork fast.
  • the cork 6, 9, 10 may be made according to normal principles in such a way that it seals better the higher the pressure.
  • An improvement .to a bottle opener, particularly for crown corks, comprising a handle component and a tool component in which the handle component carries a closing device for a standard bottle, with the characteristic feature that the handle component is embedded in a moulding of plastic or other comparatively soft material and that the closing device is formed in this on the one side of the handle component.
  • the closing device comprises a yielding plug which is to fit into the neck of the bottle and a circumferential edge around the plug and at a distance from it which is to fit outside the flange of the bottle mouth.

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AT393261B (de) * 1989-06-08 1991-09-25 Mader Johanna Oeffner- und verschlussvorrichtung fuer plastikverschluesse, insbesondere an flaschen von milchprodukten
US5946753A (en) * 1998-02-04 1999-09-07 Roberts; Ethan Combination cigar clipper and bottle opener
US20060278541A1 (en) * 2005-06-09 2006-12-14 Todd Mendoza Bottle opener and storage device
US20070007292A1 (en) * 2004-03-01 2007-01-11 Robert D. Deley Plug with beveled undercut sealing groove for beverage lids
US20090152279A1 (en) * 2005-11-01 2009-06-18 Thomas Burns Plug for Beverage Container Lid
US20110259154A1 (en) * 2008-12-01 2011-10-27 Dong Yool Lee Opener
USD796283S1 (en) * 2016-05-03 2017-09-05 Curt G. Joa, Inc. Bottle opener
US9821936B1 (en) * 2015-08-12 2017-11-21 Huitzilo Arriaga Bottle cap with integrated bottle opener
USD867085S1 (en) * 2018-06-30 2019-11-19 Bruno Widmann Bottle opener
USD869922S1 (en) * 2018-06-30 2019-12-17 Bruno Widmann Bottle opener
USD871867S1 (en) * 2018-10-09 2020-01-07 Marcus Shane Losee Bottle opener
USD872548S1 (en) * 2018-04-12 2020-01-14 Marcus Shane Losee Bottle opener
USD939909S1 (en) 2018-06-30 2022-01-04 Bruno Widmann Bottle opener
USD942270S1 (en) * 2018-12-14 2022-02-01 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD963475S1 (en) * 2019-11-18 2022-09-13 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD964166S1 (en) * 2019-09-11 2022-09-20 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD966850S1 (en) * 2022-02-24 2022-10-18 Shaoching Sung Knife with bottle opener
USD1009626S1 (en) * 2019-09-11 2024-01-02 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
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AT393261B (de) * 1989-06-08 1991-09-25 Mader Johanna Oeffner- und verschlussvorrichtung fuer plastikverschluesse, insbesondere an flaschen von milchprodukten
US5946753A (en) * 1998-02-04 1999-09-07 Roberts; Ethan Combination cigar clipper and bottle opener
US20070007292A1 (en) * 2004-03-01 2007-01-11 Robert D. Deley Plug with beveled undercut sealing groove for beverage lids
US20060278541A1 (en) * 2005-06-09 2006-12-14 Todd Mendoza Bottle opener and storage device
US7228769B2 (en) * 2005-06-09 2007-06-12 Todd M. Mendoza Bottle opener and storage device
US20110079595A1 (en) * 2005-11-01 2011-04-07 Stixtogo, Inc. Plug for beverage container lid
US20090152279A1 (en) * 2005-11-01 2009-06-18 Thomas Burns Plug for Beverage Container Lid
US8052003B2 (en) 2005-11-01 2011-11-08 Stixtogo, Inc. Plug with recessed body portions for beverage container lid
US9216846B2 (en) * 2005-11-01 2015-12-22 Stixtogo, Inc. Plug for beverage container lid
US10647477B2 (en) 2005-11-01 2020-05-12 Stixtogo, Inc. Plug for beverage container lid
US10138027B2 (en) 2005-11-01 2018-11-27 Stixtogo, Inc. Plug for beverage container lid
US20110259154A1 (en) * 2008-12-01 2011-10-27 Dong Yool Lee Opener
US8511205B2 (en) * 2008-12-01 2013-08-20 Dong Yool Lee Opener
US9821936B1 (en) * 2015-08-12 2017-11-21 Huitzilo Arriaga Bottle cap with integrated bottle opener
USD809886S1 (en) 2016-05-03 2018-02-13 Curt G. Joa, Inc. Bottle opener
USD809885S1 (en) 2016-05-03 2018-02-13 Curt G. Joa, Inc. Bottle opener
USD796283S1 (en) * 2016-05-03 2017-09-05 Curt G. Joa, Inc. Bottle opener
USD872548S1 (en) * 2018-04-12 2020-01-14 Marcus Shane Losee Bottle opener
USD939909S1 (en) 2018-06-30 2022-01-04 Bruno Widmann Bottle opener
USD867085S1 (en) * 2018-06-30 2019-11-19 Bruno Widmann Bottle opener
USD869922S1 (en) * 2018-06-30 2019-12-17 Bruno Widmann Bottle opener
USD871867S1 (en) * 2018-10-09 2020-01-07 Marcus Shane Losee Bottle opener
USD942270S1 (en) * 2018-12-14 2022-02-01 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD964166S1 (en) * 2019-09-11 2022-09-20 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD1009626S1 (en) * 2019-09-11 2024-01-02 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD963475S1 (en) * 2019-11-18 2022-09-13 Facere Ltd. Plug for a beverage container lid
USD1051686S1 (en) * 2021-10-06 2024-11-19 Micah Jackson Magnetic bottle or can opener holder
USD966850S1 (en) * 2022-02-24 2022-10-18 Shaoching Sung Knife with bottle opener

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