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difficult to give sufficient running torque. and the force which people were alike

occasionally during the activity which extracts the cork of a champagne bottle,

carried out, and has grasped the head of a cork will be loosened. Therefore, when a

cork is finally extracted, a cork may jump out of the man's hand with the internal

pressure in the champagne bottle which is acting on a cork.”

Patent Number 10-029696, February 3, 1998

granted to , September 28, 1999 granted to

Kanematsu Seiji for solving this problem:

Hoshino Michio for a “Corkscrew Guide

Cap” solving this problem: “To enlarge a

pulling out amount of a cork fitted in the

mouth of a bottle, and easily perform a

removing work of the cork with a small

effort.”

Patent Number 11-263393, September 28, 1999 granted to

Hoshino Michio for a “Corkscrew Guide Cap” solving this

problem: “To allow a corkscrew needle to be easily and surely

pierced straight into a cork for a wine bottle, etc., even by an

unskilled person.”