Tuesday’s ad is for Old Milwaukee, from 1981. This was an advertising poster that Old Milwaukee put out in the early eighties. I’m not sure if the seductive model is somebody I’m supposed to know, or was famous in that time. Either way, I think it could definitely get better than that. For starters, better beer would be nice.
Archives for June 30, 2015
Patent No. 5772000A: Hop Vine Transfer System
Today in 1998, US Patent 5772000 A was issued, an invention of Paul J. Serres, for his “Hop Vine Transfer System.” Here’s the Abstract:
A hop vine transfer system (10) includes a plurality of magazines (14a, 14b, 14c) each fed by an associated unloader mechanism (12). Once a magazine has been filled with hope vines (V), it is unloaded by a pivoting transfer conveyor (16) having an entrance end (50) alignable with the exit end portion (48) of the magazine. The opposite exit end (91) of the transfer conveyor is disposed in operable engagement with a picking machine conveyor (18) that moves the hop vines, with their stub ends upwardly, through a picking machine (22) to remove the hops from the vines.
Patent No. 732122A: Barrel Tap
Today in 1903, US Patent 732122 A was issued, an invention of Adolph Schneider, for his “Barrel Tap.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
The invention relates, primarily, to barrel taps more, particularly intended for use in drawing or transferring effervescing liquid, such as beer, from one receptacle to another, but which can also be used for drafting liquids.
The objects of the invention are to construct a barrel-tap which can be readily applied to or removed from a receptacle without any great inconvenience or trouble and which when applied to a receptacle will enable the liquid contained in the receptacle to be drawn therefrom without liability of waste, to effectually pr I’ll; leakage in applying the tap to the receptacle, to enable air or other fluid pressure to be applied to the receptacle as the liquid is withdrawn therefrom without change in the tap, thereby maintaining the requisite amount of pressure in a receptacle for properly transferring the liquid under a predetermined pressure, to simplify the construction and improve the operation of barrel-taps, and to construct a barrel-tap which as a Whole will be very compact, easily applied, and effective and reliable in use.
Patent No. 732350A: Brew House Apparatus Equipment
Today in 1903, US Patent 732350 A was issued, an invention of Max Henius, for his “Brew House Apparatus Equipment.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
My invention relates to an improvement in the equipment of apparatus employed in the department of a brewery known as the brewhouse, which is devoted to the operation of producing the wort by practicing the several generally-stated steps of making the mash, drawing off and hopping and boiling the resultant wort, separating the hopped wort from the hops, and finally cooling the hopped wort preparatory to pumping it into the fermentation-vat.
Hitherto the equipment employed in the manufacture of the wort in the brew-house has involved a multiplicity of apparatus, which has rendered not only the installation of the plant in the matter of building and apparatus but also the maintenance and operation very expensive.
The object of my improvement is to simplify the apparatus equipment for a brewhouse by reducing to the minimum the number of apparatuses for practicing the several necessary steps in wort manufacture by adapting a number of the comparatively few apparatuses provided to perform each several of the steps of the process Where hitherto a separate apparatus was in most or at least some instances required for the practice of each separate step.