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William Painter (November 20, 1838 – July 15, 1906) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener.
Invented at the same time as the crown cork, it is the original bottle opener. But as well as being portable it also comes as a fixed device to be attached to vertical surfaces, often with a tray to catch the bottle tops.
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Of the sources I consulted, one attributes the creation of the bottle opener to an anonymous inventor in 1738. That would be exactly 156 years before the creation of the modern bottle cap, which makes this theory feel less than plausible. The more widely accepted history attributes the invention of both the bottle cap and the openers thereof to the...
Within a matter of years, the crown cap had been widely adopted by the major soda and beer producers and the bottle opener market exploded like a forgotten beer in the freezer. One of the first prominent designs can be seen above, known as the Church Key Openers (so named because they often resembled the ornate keys used to open church doors), thes...
Despite the fact that vintage bottle openers are fairly easy to find and exceedingly inexpensive; there are higher-end options out there. The above bottle opener from Kapitalis clearly inspired by the popular archetypal “You Pay” or “Next Round’s On You” vintage openers that are fairly easy to find. These classic openers had a small pin on the back...
The bottle opener hasn’t changed much since its invention by either Bernardin or Painter. In fact, the most exciting element of its history is simply its creation. The disposable crown cap forever changed the way we drink things, simultaneously maintaining the hygiene, flavor, and carbonation of our favorite drinks. This simple invention had profou...
Bottle openers, those wonderful things that open beer, only became commonplace after the crown top (also known as the crown cork) was invented by an American of British descent named William Painter in 1892.
They were designed for one-time use, they were inexpensive, and were completely leak-proof. Painter received U.S. patent no. 468,258 for the invention in 1892. Two years later, he patented the first bottle cap lifter, now known typically as simply a “bottle opener.”
Old Bottle Openers. Since William Painter invented the Crown Cork bottle cap and then patented the first tool to open this new cap in 1894, tens of millions of bottle openers have been produced.
Oct 13, 2021 · The most widely accepted theory is that the bottle cap and the bottle opener were both invented by William Painter. A “crowbar-like device” (thought to be a bottle opener) featured in his third patent submission in 1890, and he received a patent for his bottle cap in 1892.
