Saturday’s ad is for Labatt’s, from 1956. “Confused by a crazy canvas?” Yes, modern art is tough to understand, isn’t that hilarious. Of course, in the 1950s, there was a lot of modern art that challenged notions of what it meant to be art, so it was a pretty easy target for the beer drinking demographic, I would imagine.
Archives for July 11, 2015
Patent No. 3675805A: Snap Open Bottle Cap
Today in 1972, US Patent 3675805 A was issued, an invention of Victor Shane, for his “Snap Open Bottle Cap.” Here’s the Abstract:
A bottle cap having fault lines seals a bottle provided with wedge shaped ramps which cause the fault lines to yield when pressure is applied to the top of the cap.
Patent No. 2165684A: Portable Liquid Container And Means For Filling The Same
Today in 1939, US Patent 2165684 A was issued, an invention of Frederick A. Struck, for his “Portable Liquid Container and Means For Filling the Same.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
This invention relates to a portable beer dispenser and has for its principal object the provision of a portable container in which, from the time the container is filled until the last drink r is drawn, the beer will be constantly and uniformly maintained under the same pressure it was in the original barrel.
Draft beer is packed by the breweries in kegs or barrels. If this beer is drawn from the barrel 10 in bulk into a container it soon loses its richness and flavor due to the escape of the gas therefrom, and if allowed to stand in the container for any length of time it will become stale, flat and undrinkable. With. the use of this invention, how- 1 ever, the beer is maintained under pressure while it is being transferred to the portable container and while it is being dispensed from the container so that at no time is it possible for the gas to escape from the beer and the flavor is maintained exactly as it was in the original barrel.
Other objects and advantages reside in the detail construction of the invention, which is designed for simplicity, economy, and efficiency.
Patent No. D208075S: Pull Tab For A Can
Today in 1967, US Patent D208075 S was issued, an invention of Nick S. Khoury, assigned to the Continental Can Company, for his “Pull Tab for a Can or the Like.” There’s no Abstract, and oddly the entire description of the patent is an “ornamental design for a pull tab.”