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In the second application, Painter outlines more tools for removing his crown

cap:

“

I have now so devised my loopless and close-topped caps and have so

organized a combination thereof with the bottles that the caps can be almost

readily detached by the use of a knife, a screw-driver, a nail, an ice-pick, or any

usually and readily available pointed instrument as if a special opener were

used, the latter being, of course, always preferable when bottles are required to

be opened rapidly.

”

So Painter has now given the world his crown cap. It could be removed by a

number of methods he described and all would have to wait for his further ideas

on the

“

bottle opener.

”