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mention of cork removal devices in the patent description but the patented filling device
was used in the Cork Out. Philip Meshberg, Palm Beach, Florida, applied for his patent
on January 13, 1982 and the patent was granted April 10, 1984. The Cork Out was
available from Cork Out, Inc., 32236 Paseo Adelanto, San Juan Capistrano, California.
The cartridge is easily changed by removing the bayonet fit top, It contains "food grade
propellant A108" which we learn from the instructions is "commonly used in cooking
sprays" and is "odorless, tasteless, non chlorofluorocarbon, and environmentally safe." A
cork stripper in the base, compressed a spring when the cork was ejected. The stripper
has tabs protruding through two slots. Pushing down on the tabs would remove the
cork from the needle.
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More than twenty years after his 1960s pair of gas cork ejector
inventions, George Federighi submitted a third. This November
3, 1986 application was for a "Pressure Metering Cork
Extractor." His concern with prior ejectors was that
"inadvertent injection of pressure fluid can result in an
undesirably forcible ejection of the cork or even rupture of the
bottle itself." To resolve that problem, the new invention
incorporates a pressure metering valve.
