Gift- Wine Bottle Opener

A bottle opener is a device that enables the removal of metal bottle caps from glass bottles.  More generally, it might be thought to include corkscrews used to remove cork or plastic stoppers from wine bottles.

A metal bottle cap is affixed to the rim of the neck of a bottle by being pleated or ruffled around the rim.  A bottle opener is a specialized lever inserted beneath the pleated metalwork, which uses a point on the bottle cap as a fulcrum on which to pivot.

This tool is used by businesses that need to open a large volume of wine efficiently and without waste or breakage.  It is a large brass tubular device, fixed at a 45° angle to the bar, with a lever pivoted halfway and extending towards the user.  The bottle's neck is inserted firmly in the lower aperture of the tube and the lever pulled down firmly and steadily to the bottom.  This drives a corkscrew into the cork at a regular depth each time.  When the lever is returned to its original position it extracts the cork.  When the bottle is removed pull the lever to expose the cork at the bottom, it loosens the cork and returns the lever firmly to its starting position, whereupon the cork will then fall out.