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Herbert Allen (1907-1990) was an American inventor.. Allen was born May 2, 1907. He graduated from Rice University in 1929. [1]Herbert Allen invented the Screwpull brand of corkscrews in 1979.
A corkscrew is a tool for drawing corks from wine bottles and other household bottles that may be sealed with corks. In its traditional form, a corkscrew simply consists of a pointed metallic helix (often called the "worm") attached to a handle, which the user screws into the cork and pulls to extract it. Corkscrews are necessary because corks ...
The self-locking property is also key to the screw's use in a wide range of other applications, such as the corkscrew, screw top container lid, threaded pipe joint, vise, C-clamp, and screw jack. Screws are also used as linkages in machines to transfer power, in the worm gear, lead screw, ball screw, and roller screw.
Corks have been used to seal jars and bottles for over 400 years. [1] ( Modern, machine made bottles with threaded tops for screw caps date from the 1920s. [2]) Early glass bottles were cumbersome (and possibly dangerous, being hand-blown) to hold, and the simple “T” corkscrew required strength to use.
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Henshall was awarded on 24 August 1795 the first patent for a corkscrew. It had a fixed disc or button between the worm and the shank, so that the worm would not advance further when the button reached the top of the bottle. [2] [3] [4] It is known as the Henshall Button Corkscrew, and was manufactured by Matthew Boulton. [5]
Canobie Corkscrew prior to August 2012. Designed by Arrow Development, Canobie Corkscrew was first operated in 1975 as Chicago Loop at the indoor amusement park Old Chicago in Bolingbrook, Illinois. [1] It was the second roller coaster in the world to turn riders upside down twice. It stayed at Old Chicago until the park's closing in 1980.
Genlisea (/ ˌ dʒ ɛ n l ɪ ˈ s iː ə / JEN-liss-EE-ə) is a genus of carnivorous plants also known as corkscrew plants. The 30 or so species grow in wet terrestrial to semi-aquatic environments distributed throughout Africa and Central and South America .