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Solving Problems

As stated in the introduction some of the computer translated patent copy can be

quite fascinating (and humorous). Here are a few more examples:

Patent Number 64-058693, March 6, 1989 granted to Matsuda Sunao for a “Cork

Opener by Interlocking Action of Screw and Cum Corks With Cam” for this

purpose: “To easily and exactly draw corks from bottles by constituting the cork

opener with a worm to be screwed into cork stopper, a cam plate formed at the

both outside edges of the sectional cam frame, and a supporting axis serving as

both the spiral center of a cam plate and a supporter for the tip of the spiral worm.”

1993 Patent Number 05-016698 outlines this effect of the invention:

“

When the

cork tapping implement of this design became one cylinder object at the time of

un-using it, a light weight and appearance are very good, a tapping main part is

pulled out by the side from the center of said intermediary barrel at the time of use,

the spherical section moves in the inside of a cylinder and it reaches near the regio

oralis If a tapping main part is caused, the spherical section opposite-** to a

cylinder inside, and while securing the location where the neck was pulled out by