Cork cutter

Cork tailoring, 1903

Korkschneider prepared from the cuticle of the cork oak bark primarily stopper for sealing bottles and other containers (balloon barrels) ago. They dipped the cleaned, five to eight centimeters thick cork sheets in boiling water, pressed them and dried them. At the beginning, corks were cut out freehand with sharp knives. Cork was also used to make cork soles, cork jackets, floats for buoys and fishing nets, as well as haberdashery and for covering steam pipes. In Gdansk in the 15th century, the material was also made into slippers, for example .

Cork cutter cutting plugs ( the gazebo )

The alleged inventor of the cork stopper as a bottle stopper was the father cellar master of the Hautvillers Abbey , Dom Pérignon . Cork is characterized, among other things, by its low density and high resistance to external influences.

literature

• Rudi Palla: The lexicon of the lost professions . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8289-4152-4 .
• The processing of the cork bark into plugs in the districts around Bremen and Delmenhorst. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 174, 1864, Miszelle 11, pp. 407-408.