Saturday’s ad is entitled Clambake On The Beach, and the illustration was done in 1952 by John Gannam. It’s #70 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, another unrealistically well-to-do family has an amazing house a short walk from the beach, and they’re hosting a well-attended clambake around the 4th of July. Since this ad ran in July of 1952, the picture in the inset is colonial, showing three men, and the text accompanying it is about Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson (no idea who the third person is supposed to be) and their love of beer.
Archives for June 11, 2016
Patent No. 204687A: Improvement In Safety-Valves For Fermented-Liquor Casks
Today in 1878, US Patent 204687 A was issued, an invention of Henry Shlaudeman, for his “Improvement in Safety-Valves for Fermented-Liquor Casks.” There’s no Abstract, though it’s described this way in the application:
The object of my invention is to produce a safety-valve to be placed upon storage-casks, hogsheads, &c., in which malt and other fermenting or fermented liquors are placed in stock viz., before drawing into vessels for consumption or sale-and is constructed so that the weighted valve will be raised automatically if more than a certain quantity of carbonic-acid gas is generated, and allow said gas to escape without exposing the liquors to the open air, and by thus excluding the air stopping fermentation at a fixed degree, and preventing the bursting of the cask or hogshead, the device inclosing a weighted valve that shall have a fixed and definite capacity of retaining the gases.