191

Number 1323665 issued April 13, 2004 to Yang Heng-Te (Taiwan) for

Gasdrevet

korkpropfjernelsesapparat

.

England

Number 1,321 issued January 17, 1914 to John Henry Aubrey Stapley 1914 for

An

improved method of and means for opening bottles.

Registered Design Number 912,910 issued in 1963 to Spong & Co., Crompton Close,

Basildon, Essex for a cork ejector.

Number 930,372 issued July 3, 1963 to Denis Farandatos (United States) for

Device for

Controllably Releasing a Compressed Gas from a Container

(application September 10,

1959).

Number 953,337 issued March 25, 1964 to Robert Oscar Lightfoot on behalf of Denis

Farandatos (United States) for

Improvements relating to gas dispensing means

(application

May 16, 1960).

Number 962,067 issued June 24, 1964 to George Joseph Federighi (United States) for

Pressurized device for uncorking bottles.

Number 971,161 issued September 30, 1964 to Christopher Alan Hogg and Leslie

Albert Dunton for

Control Valve Appliances for Dispensing Pressure Fluid

(application

February 3, 1961).

Number 986,984 issued March 24, 1965 to Robert Pollak, Promac Engineering Ltd. for

A

cork-extracting device

(application September 20, 1962).

Number 994,203 issued June 2, 1965 to Brian Sidney Bennett (application December 27,

1962).

Number 1,069,917 issued May 24, 1967 to Christopher Alan Hogg for

Fluid Regulating

Valve Mechanism

(application November 21, 1963).

Hogg applied for another patent on November 21, 1963. The application for the "Fluid

Regulating Valve Mechanism states "Various applications of such a mechanism are

possible, including for example devices where the pressure fluid is arranged to produce

a mechanical effect such as the operation of a toy or model, the production of a spray,

or the ejection of the cork from a bottle..." He was granted English patent number

1,069,917 on May 24, 1967. This was followed on June 20 by U. S. Patent No. 3,326,231.

Number 1,076,126 issued July 19, 1967 to Werner Streicher (Germany) for

Pneumatic

extractor for stoppers and the like.

Number 1,116,853 issued June 12, 1968 to Harold Horner, Prestige Group Ltd. for

An

improved cork extracting device

(application February 3, 1966).

Number 1,149,600 issued April 23, 1969 to Werner Streicher (Germany) for

Improvements in or relating to pneumatic cork extractors

.

Number 2,081,689 issued February 24, 1982 to Michio Nakayama (Japan) for

Improved

Bottle Opener.

Number 2,094,275 issued September 15, 1982 to Kenji Hashimoto for

Cork-Extracting

Device

.

Number 2,201,146 issued August 24, 1988 to Edward Ronald Mackey (United States)

for

Removing bottle stopper

.

Number 2,385,048 issued August 13, 2003 to Chen I-Pin and Lin Chia-Hsien (Taiwan)

for

Bottle opener with pressurized cork-removal apparatus.