Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — FOR EXTRACTING CORKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR EXTRACTING CORKS.

Device Retrieves Btoppers Which Have Been Pushed Into Bottles. How often it happens that tlm lower half of a broken cork slips- into the body of the bottle and bobs about tantalizingly. Usually there is nothing to do in such a case but to let the cork stay where it is, or, if the action of the liquid on cork Is harmful, pour the liquid into another bottle. An Ohio man has come to the rescue, however, with a device which extracts corks from bottles with neatness and dispatch. This consists of an Inter-

Woven shank, with one end terminating In a handle and the other end provided with diverging spring arms with spurs turned Jnward. Around the shank Is a slidable member, which when pushed toward the claws of the former .compresses them. The apparatus is thrust into a bottle, the claws placed over the cork and pressed together so they hold it firmly. It can then be drawn out with ease. Such an extractor is of great In factories where old bottles are used.