About Corkscrew
- Corkscrew is a tool that is used for drawing corks from wine bottles, and any other household bottles that may have sealed corks. In traditional form, a corkscrew consists with these parts, a pointed metallic helix attached to the handle, which the user screws it to the cork and pull to open the cork. With corks being small and smooth and being hard to remove with bare hands, the corkscrews are necessary to open corks from bottles. Especially when they are in a inflexible glass bottle. There is more then one style of corkscrews. These are; Basic ones, Winged corkscrews, Sommelier Knife, Twin-Prong cork puller, Lever corkscrew, Mounted corkscrew and Screwpull.
History
- The design may have derived from the gun worm which was a device that is used by men to remove the unspent charges from musket’s barrel in similar fashion.
- Corkscrew is probably a English invention, due to the tradition of beer and cider in the England. In 1795, the first corkscrew’s patenet was granted to the Reverend Samuell Henshall, in England. The clergyman affixed a simple disk, now known as the Henshall Button, between the worm and the shank. Disk prevents the worms travel so it does not goes too deep into the cork, it forces the cork to turn with the turning of the crosspiece, and it breaks the adhesion between cork and the neck of the bottle.