Sunday’s ad is entitled Holiday Visitors, and the illustration was done in 1950 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #50 in a series entitled “Home Life in America,” also known as the Beer Belongs series of ads that the United States Brewers Foundation ran from 1945 to 1956. In this ad, friends and family are arriving, bearing gifts, for a Christmas party. It’s cold outside, but a fire going inside and a tray of beer waiting for them. Sounds like a party to me.
Archives for May 22, 2016
Patent No. 1959501A: Beer Dispensing Device
Today in 1934, US Patent 1959501 A was issued, an invention of Elton F. Ross, for his “Beer Dispensing Device.” There’s no Abstract, though it’s described this way in the application:
This invention relates to a device for dispensing beer and other carbonated liquids discharged under pressure from a keg or other source of supply, and particularly to a dispensing device designed to supply measured quantities of the liquid and to control the discharge so as to prevent waste of the liquid and other objections due to wildness of the liquid.
Patent No. 821208A: Beer Glass Tray
Today in 1906, US Patent 821208 A was issued, an invention of Friedrich Voss, for his “Beer Glass Tray.” There’s no Abstract, though it’s described this way in the application:
This invention relates to a beer-glass tray which absorbs the drippings and conveys the same to a receiving-trough, so that cleanliness is insured.