A basic corkscrew

A waiter's corkscrew

A corkscrew is a tool for drawing stopping corks from bottles. Generally, it comprises a pointed metallic spiral attached to a handle. The user grips the handle and screws the metal point through the cork, entwining the cork and corkscrew so that moving one moves the other. Corkscrews are necessary because corks themselves, being small and smooth, are difficult to grip and (elegantly) remove. The handle of the corkscrew, often a horizontal bar of wood attached to the screw, allows for a fine, commanding grip making removal of the stopper relatively easy. Many corkscrew handles incorporate levers that further increase the amount of force that can be applied outwards upon the cork. Download high resolution version (768x963, 48 KB)Corkscrew (tool), basic version Source: german Wikipedia: de:Bild:Korkenzieher 01 KMJ.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (768x963, 48 KB)Corkscrew (tool), basic version Source: german Wikipedia: de:Bild:Korkenzieher 01 KMJ.jpg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (1024x512, 36 KB)Corkscrew (tool), waiters version Photographer: CUGL A bar tool for opening any kind of bottles. ... Download high resolution version (1024x512, 36 KB)Corkscrew (tool), waiters version Photographer: CUGL A bar tool for opening any kind of bottles. ... A stopper is a truncated conical piece of rubber or cork used to close off a glass tube, piece of laboratory glassware, a wine bottle or barrel and other containers with orifices. ... Reusable glass milk bottles A bottle is a small container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a mouth. ... A cork stopper for a wine bottle A Champagne cork Cork material is a subset of generic cork tissue, harvested for commercial use primarily from the Cork oak tree, Quercus suber, with Portugal producing most cork worldwide. ... A stopper is a truncated conical piece of rubber or cork used to close off a glass tube, piece of laboratory glassware, a wine bottle or barrel and other containers with orifices. ... The principle of the lever tells us that the above is in static equilibrium, with all forces balancing, if F1D1 = F2D2. ... In physics, a force is what changes the velocity of a material body. ...

Its design was derived from the gun worm which was a device used by musketmen to remove unspent charges from a musket's barrel in a similar fashion. muskets and bayonets aboard the frigate Grand Turk A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore long gun. ...

Corks are largely associated with wine bottles, although they are being replaced with other closures such as screwcaps on a proportion of wines. A wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. ... A screwcap is a type of closure that is gaining increasing support as an alternative to cork for sealing wine bottles. ...