Bottle opener

A bottle opener or cap lifter, is a tool to remove bottle caps from a bottle.

History

The first bottle came along with the introduction of the caps on the market: the Bottle uncapping tool, patented in 1893 by Alfred Louis Bernardin, and the Capped Bottle Opener, 1894 patented by William Painter. Both are quite similar in the functioning of a bracket for the support and an edge for hooking.

Operation

A bar is pushed below the rim of the bottle cap to open, somewhere exerted backpressure and levered away the bottle caps.

There are many different bottle opener, which differ not only in design but also in the lever technology. Above all, two basic types are common, which can then be shaped differently:

  • A bracket rests on the crown cork, while an edge reaches under the crown cork and pulls it upward. By about the whole capsule reaching a tilting pad is not possible.
  • The economy version is a bar with the end of an often semicircular -like recess. The upper end is on and a standing in the semi- circle at the bottom tooth hacks at a crown cork. If the bar is narrow, you can tip over or slide off easily.

Alternatively, for example, can perform the task being performed with the comprehensive fingers underneath the bottle back pressure and with the leverage of the lighter of the lid is lifted a lighter. Or you can set the shutter to a table edge and exercises with the hand a blow to the closing edge of the table edge away from. In principle, any object that can be recognized as a lever on the capsule is, as an opener.

Miscellaneous

  • Bottle opener can be used as promotional item, be it from the beverage industry, as well as companies from other sectors.
  • They are integrated as gimmicks in specific forms or into other devices, such as lighters.
  • The Shanghai World Financial Center is nicknamed the " bottle opener ".
  • " Siebzehner " or " 17er - key " (an open-ended spanner with a key width of 17 mm ) is a colloquial synonym for a beer opener especially for locksmiths, mechanics, installers, and related professions. The term " 17er - key " is known in large parts of the German-speaking world, especially in Austria east of the Arlberg, Karlsruhe, Saarland and North Rhine -Westphalia ( Rhineland / Ruhr ).

Similar tools

  • Corkscrew
  • Can opener
  • Clasp
William Painter (inventor)
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