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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.
Operation Corkscrew was the code name for the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 11 June 1943, ...
Daisy corkscrew with plate advertising J.C. Hackstaff Bar & Bottlers Because the bar corkscrews were mounted on counters in full view of customers, they offered a point of sale advertisement for breweries, such as Anheuser-Busch , and cigar makers who affixed private label advertising plates to them.
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They reached the exit and turned off the highway onto a country road. “Oh, here we are, right here,” Jim said, easing onto the corkscrew drive that led up a hill onto the Recovery Works property. “Comes up on you pretty fast.” To the left was a series of small brick cottages where the residents lived.
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]
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A corkscrew on the Cedar Point ride of the same name. A corkscrew inversion resembles a helix that rotates riders 360 degrees perpendicular to the track. It was named for its resemblance of a corkscrew tool used to remove bottle corks. Unlike vertical loops, riders face forward for the duration of the inversion. The corkscrew was the first ...