Pracht Korkenzieher

Solingen, Germany February 13, 1976 - Günther Pracht has applied for a patent on his latest invention which he claims as "A cork screw having a bell-shaped housing and a cork-screw blade which is secured at one of its ends to the closed end of the bell-shaped housing, the cork being able to be lifted out ot the bottle neck without reversing the turning direction of the cork-screw blade..."

Pracht's corkscrew will be manufactured by the August Reutershan Company which has been operating in Solingen since 1964.

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Wirtz, Virginia, February 13, 2003 - Editor's note: The Pracht corkscrew is currently manufactured by Sieger GmbH in Germany. The name of the company was changed from Reutershan to Sieger in 1991. The corkscrew is marketed as the Model Sieger 600 and is produced in a variety of colors and leather coverings.

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