Metro:
Mr Higgs, who describes his work as ‘being similar to Heath Robinson drawings’, spent four years building the prototype which has been branded a ‘fabulous talking point’.
He said he was inspired by items in his grandfather’s workshop as a child and had spent most of his life creating wacky inventions.
‘The majority of the corkscrew machine is stuff that I found in places like scrap yards, car boot sales and antique fairs,’ he said.