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Heeley Rules the Empire

On August 25, 1890 Neville Smith Heeley of the James Heeley and Sons

manufacturing firm in Birmingham, England was granted British Patent Number

13,320 for his

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Improvements in Cork Screws or Cork Drawers

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application.

Heeley

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s invention came a little over two years after his patent for the A-1

Double Lever was issued. The Compound Double Lever Corkscrews was offered

as the

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Empire.

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