Abstract: An apparatus (20) for dispensing an additive into a liquid in a container comprises a support structure (22) and a container holder (28), supported by the support structure (22), for holding a container (21) containing a liquid. The apparatus (20) also includes a capsule holder (38) for holding a capsule (40) containing an additive, for example a liquid, semi-liquid or powder, and a manipulator device (41) which is operable to manipulate the capsule (40), for example by crushing it, to thereby dispense the additive into the liquid in the container (21).

Abstract: A jar top opener that includes: a first brace, where the first brace includes a plurality of serrated blades along a first side of the first brace; a connecting end of the first brace; a distal end of the first brace; a second brace, where the second brace includes an outside surface and an inside surface; a connecting end of the second brace, where connecting end of the second brace connects to the connecting end of the first brace, where the first brace and the second brace create a v-shape with an opening between the inside of the second brace and the first side of the first brace; and a distal end of the second brace.

Abstract: A bottle opener assembly includes a bottle opener having a body including a first end and a second end opposed to the first end. A reel component is coupled to the first end of the bottle opener via a connecting cable. The reel component comprises an attachment structure configured to be attached to a mounting surface. A housing is coupled to the attachment structure. The housing is configured to rotate about a center axis of the attachment structure. A retraction assembly is coupled to and positioned within the housing. The retraction assembly is configured to release the connecting cable through a port in the housing when a pulling force above a threshold force is applied to the connecting cable. The retraction assembly is configured to automatically retract the connecting cable through the port when the pulling force is below the threshold force.

Abstract: The invention provides a bottle cap opener capable of sliding into an adjustable position along the bill of a cap with minimal peripheral vision of the opener. The bottle cap opener may be removed by a user to engage a bottle cap for removal from an associated bottle, then slidably replaced on the cap bill. The bottle cap opener comprises a contoured profile to match the contoured profile of the cap bill to minimize peripheral vision involvement and a curved shaping that is complementary with the curved shaping of the cap bill to maximize closeness of fit between the opener and the surface of the cap bill. The opener further comprises a space for individualized customization.

Abstract: A stand for receiving a corkscrew having a body with a bottom portion having a magnetic metallic bottom surface or a magnetic member. The stand comprises a bottom portion for contacting a horizontal surface; a top portion being opposed to the bottom portion, and a peripheral wall at least partially extending between the bottom and top portions. The top portion defines a base for receiving the corkscrew's body, the base comprising a magnetic member or a magnetic metallic upper surface adapted to magnetically affix the bottom portion of the corkscrew's body to the base.

Abstract: The present invention describes a novelty, mountable bottle opening device configured to display an interchangeable, theme-based display panel upon a vertical surface. The mountable bottle opening device includes a support base structure, an intermediate connecting element, an interchangeable decorative overlay panel, a bottle cap removal device, a bottle cap disposal receptacle, and at least one decorative cover. Many of the elements are interchangeable and provide for displaying unlimited and diverse themes. As the device is used to remove a bottle cap, the user perceives an audio message, visual message and/or mechanical event.

Abstract: The invention provides a bottle cap opener capable of sliding into an adjustable position along the bill of a cap with minimal peripheral vision of the opener. The bottle cap opener may be removed by a user to engage a bottle cap for removal from an associated bottle, then slidably replaced on the cap bill. The bottle cap opener comprises a contoured profile to match the contoured profile of the cap bill to minimize peripheral vision involvement and a curved shaping that is complementary with the curved shaping of the cap bill to maximize closeness of fit between the opener and the surface of the cap bill. The opener further comprises a space for individualized customization.

Abstract: A mountable cork puller including a tray open on one major side thereof adapted to be mounted in a recess in a wall, a hinge pin associated with the tray, and a hinge pivotally carried on the hinge pin, the hinge attached at its free end to a cork puller such that the hinge swings the cork puller between a stowed position in the tray and a deployed use position removed from the tray.

Abstract: A wearable garment with a stitched or otherwise secured accessory, which is preferably a one piece PVC or injection molded plastic accessory. The accessory includes a base for attachment to the garment and a disk in the general shape of a bottle cap and bottle flange. The disk is attached together with the base by a flexible tether. The base unit is glued, stitched or otherwise attached to the wearable garment and the, bottle cap shape, is snapped onto the base unit.

Abstract: Decapper consisting of a monopiece body, configured with a straight profile of angular section and symmetrical, whose sides have flaps that are noticeably arched inwards, ending in sharp edges, in such a way that in both directions they make it possible to retain the edges of the crown-type bottle caps, so that they may be decapped through a levering or movement of the bottle in question.

Abstract: An improved removable single housing bottle opener and cap catcher, the improvement being a hinged bottom door, and a door latching means for enabling convenient, sanitary disposal of collected bottle caps with a first part of the door latching mechanism disposed along at least one edge of the hinged bottom door and a second part disposed near the bottom of the single housing wherein the second part is sized and located to mate with the first part.

Abstract: An ink container opener having a first member having an opening formed therein; and, a second member received within the opening of the first member. The second member further has an opening for receiving an ink container for separating a top portion from a bottom portion of the ink container.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel, easy to use, hand-operated apparatus for effortlessly loosening the threaded lid of ajar or bottle having a screw-on lid and readily accommodates jars or bottles of different sizes. One form of the invention includes a base having a jar supporting surface, a generally vertically extending guide column connected to the base and a carriage assembly connected to the guide for movement relative to the guide between a first raised position and a second lowered position. Novel features of the invention include the provision of a helical drive screw which drives a jar lid engaging assembly and a novel safety clutch mechanism which prevents the exertion of excessive force on the jar being opened.

Abstract: A jar opening apparatus for opening a jar having a screw-on lid which comprises a base having a jar supporting surface, a generally vertically extending guide column connected to the base and a carriage assembly connected to the guide for movement relative to the guide between a first raised position and a second lowered position. The carriage assembly comprises a carriage; a lid engaging member connected to the carriage for engaging the screw-on lid when the carriage is in the second position, and rotating means for imparting rotation to the lid engaging member. The rotating means uniquely comprises a drive screw connected to the carriage and a cooperating driven tube connected to the lid engaging member. A novel operating mechanism is operably associated with the carriage for moving the carriage between the first and second positions.

Abstract: An ink container opener has first and second portions approximately perpendicular to each other to form an L-shaped opener. The first portion has an opening having a plurality of ridges extending along opposite sides of the opening. An ink container is received within the opening and force is applied to the ink container to remove a cap from a body of the ink container.

Abstract: A corkscrew assembly (50) has a tubular body (52) mounted on an upright slide bar (75) by means of a collar (72) which is connected to the body (52) by an arm (73). The slide bar (75) is carried by pillars (76) on a base plate (77) which in use is attached to a wall or the like above a horizontal work surface. The collar (72) can be moved up or down on the slide bar (75) for height adjustment of the body (52) to engage a mouth (85) at a lower end of the body (52) with the neck of a bottle placed on the work surface below the body (52). Locking means is provided on the collar (72) to releasably lock the collar (72) on the slide bar (75) when engaged with a bottle to securely hold the bottle for cork extraction. An actuating lever arm (68) on the body (52) can then be moved downwardly from a raised position to operate drive means on the body (52) to screw a corkscrew (57) into the cork of the bottle.

Abstract: An automated pill bottle opener that is initiated by the user placing the bottle to be opened on a lower gripping surface that is affixed to a casing of the device. The user then moves a selector to choose the opening operation. A plunger assembly drives a plunger downward until a top gripping surface of a rotator assembly presses on the top of the bottle cap. After the pill bottle cap is opened, a pressure sensitive triggering device reverses the direction of travel of the plunger so that the plunger is again raised to its original position. To reseal a bottle, the user simply places the bottle on the lower gripping surface with the cap positioned on the top of the bottle. The user then moves the selector to choose the closing process. The plunger action of the device is identical, but the direction of rotation of the rotator is reversed so that the cap is screwed back onto the bottle.

Abstract: A winged corkscrew has a lock box that prevents a non-stick coated worm from turning in a reverse direction and slipping out of a cork when two wings of the corkscrew are closed. The lock box locks onto a collar on a main shaft of the cork screw, and thereafter, a cam on the main shaft forms a one way rotational ratchet with the lock box. When the worm is fully inserted, the wings are lowered to remove the cork, but the ratchet prevents the worm from turning in reverse and slipping out of the cork. The corkscrew also has catches that center the corkscrew on the bottle and align the worm into the center of the cork. After the cork has been removed from the bottle, the lock box is unlocked to allow the cork to be removed.

Abstract: A portable device may be carried by the user, in one preferred embodiment thereof, and motorizes the task of opening beverage containers having a screw cap. The mechanism that couples to the bottle cap consists of a generally circular band having a distal end bent inwardly in the direction of the cap. The bend of the band is sized and configured to permit receipt of the bottle cap with the bent tang of the band engaging the periphery of the bottle cap at one location. The band is mechanically coupled to the drive shaft of a drive motor with the drive shaft extending axially of the band. The drive motor is mounted on a plate carrying a strap designed to receive fingers of the user so that the user may grasp the plate. An activation switch is conveniently located on the plate so that it may be operated by a knuckle or finger of the user.

Abstract: The invention provides a holding device for cylindrical objects such as containers, bottles, jars, and vials. The device has a platform having at least one notch therein; a first jaw disposed along a first portion of the notch, the first jaw including a textured surface; a jaw guide disposed along a second portion of the notch; a second jaw rotatably disposed within the notch, the second jaw including a textured surface, and the second jaw movable along the jaw guide to an open position allowing a container to be received between the first jaw and the second jaw; and a member coupled with the second jaw to force the second jaw toward the first jaw with sufficient force to stably hold the container during opening of the container.

Abstract: An automated pill bottle opener that is initiated by the user placing the bottle to be opened on a lower gripping surface that is affixed to a casing of the device. The user then moves a selector to choose the opening operation. A plunger assembly drives a plunger downward until a top gripping surface of a rotator assembly presses on the top of the bottle cap. After the pill bottle cap is opened, a pressure sensitive triggering device reverses the direction of travel of the plunger so that the plunger is again raised to its original position. To reseal a bottle, the user simply places the bottle on the lower gripping surface with the cap positioned on the top of the bottle. The user then moves the selector to choose the closing process. The plunger action of the device is identical, but the direction of rotation of the rotator is reversed so that the cap is screwed back onto the bottle.

Abstract: A corkscrew assembly (50) has a tubular body (52) mounted on an upright slide bar (75) by means of a collar (72) which is connected to the body (52) by an arm (73). The slide bar (75) is carried by pillars (76) on a base plate (77) which in use is attached to a wall or the like above a horizontal work surface. The collar (72) can be moved up or down on the slide bar (75) for height adjustment of the body (52) to engage a mouth (85) at a lower end of the body (52) with the neck of a bottle placed on the work surface below the body (52). Locking means is provided on the collar (72) to releasably lock the collar (72) on the slide bar (75) when engaged with a bottle to securely hold the bottle for cork extraction. An actuating lever arm (68) on the body (52) can then be moved downwardly from a raised position to operate drive means on the body (52) to screw a corkscrew (57) into the cork of the bottle.

Abstract: A device for holding a container while removing a twist-on lid for the container. The device includes a horizontal base having a top surface for supporting the bottom of the container. Two vertical elongate legs are secured side-by-side along bottom surfaces thereof to the top surface of the base and the legs extend divergently with respect to each other whereby inner left and right opposing surfaces of the legs, as horizontally viewed therein from the most divergent ends of the legs, face each other to form a wedge for engaging bottom side portions of a container positioned therebetween. An elastic surface is disposed on the left of the inner opposing surfaces for gripping bottom side surfaces of a container engaging and being rotated between the inner opposing surfaces of the legs. The opposing surfaces of the legs extend upwardly from the base in a height of between two to three inches.

Abstract: A cork removal apparatus in the invention has an exterior barrel, a interior barrel mounted inside the exterior barrel, a telescoping barrel engaged between the exterior barrel and the interior barrel, a needle, a partition plate attached inside the telescoping barrel and extended through by the needle, and a cover with a press-in member. The needle fixed at a bottom of the interior barrel has a gas inlet, a gas passageway and a gas outlet. Place a gas container into the interior barrel with its release nozzle downwardly aligned to the gas inlet, combine the cover on the exterior barrel and penetrate the needle through a cork so that a depressing of the press-in member can force gas of the gas container to flow through the needle into the bottle to extract the cork upwardly from the bottle to achieve a rapid, convenient, laborsaving and safe removal of a cork.

Abstract: A device to center and align to the wormscrew of a corkscrew the neck of a bottle of any diameter whatsoever from which the cork is to be extracted, wherein a receptacle cone is located at the base of a collection tube and is retractable with respect to the latter in order to allow the neck of a bottle to abut always centered against the base of the tube in order to have a constant and determinate abutment position to correctly remove the cork and to be able to determine precisely and in advance how much the wormscrew has to penetrate into the cork itself.

Abstract: A jar opening device for holding a jar, bottle or other container having a twist top in secured position for easy removing of the top. The jar opening device includes a generally vertical wall having a front surface and a back surface. The vertical wall has a first side edge, a second side edge, a top edge and a bottom edge. Each of a plurality of securing members extends through the vertical wall and into a counter wall for securing the vertical wall to the counter wall. A plate is integrally coupled to and extends outwardly from the front surface of the vertical wall. The plate is orientated generally horizontal and is positioned nearer the bottom edge than the top edge of the vertical wall. A first arm is elongated and has first end and second end. The first end of the first arm is pivotally coupled to the first side edge of the vertical wall and is movable in a horizontal plane. The first arm is positioned generally between the top edge and the plate.

Abstract: A container opening device has a base and an upper carriage, sliding on posts extending upward from the base. The upper carriage has a downward facing upper platen, and the base has an upward facing lower platen which is rotated by a motor in response to the depression of a knob sliding on the upper carriage. In a first version, electrical contacts within the carriage close an electrical circuit between the posts when the knob is depressed. In a second version, a pushrod in the carriage, moved by depression of the knob, causes a shaft extending upward from the base to pivot, so that contacts in a switch controlling the motor are closed.

Abstract: A flexible mounted jar holder tightly holds a jar upon a flat base while a user loosens a tightened cap therefrom. The jar holder includes a resilient, ribbed gripping first retaining strap which encircles and locks the jar in place therebetween, preferably with as friction inducing members, such as a plurality of suction cups. A locking member includes a pair of upwardly extending fixed posts, and a third locking cam post, which includes an ellipsoid cross sectional diameter. A further retaining means includes at least one further flexible strap which is urged against a portion of the outer circumference of the jar to be held at a point opposite to where the first retaining strap is urged against the outer circumference of the jar to be held. This further flexible retaining strap is stretched linearly between the pair of fixed posts. Preferably the further flexible retaining strap includes a pair of further retaining straps having respective looped ends insertable over each respective fixed post.