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Vase

The prize for the ultimate combination tool incorporating a corkscrew may very well go

to Elijah Moat. The Los Angeles inventor secured U. S. Patent Number 860,226 on July

16, 1907.

Figure 6 shows the implement used as a corkscrew. But what are the other options?

Reading through Moat's claims, we find:

Figure 1 and 2: A bottle corker

Figure 3: An egg tester, ear trumpet, monocular, or megaphone

Figure 4: Tuning instrument or whistle dinner call

Figure 5: A whistle or telescopic siren

Figure 7: Ball juggler cup or egg cup

Figure 8: A police whistle (with a worm folded into it)

So where's the vase for our garden flowers? Moat claims it can be used as a

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flower

vase

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in the Figure 7 configuration!