Saturday’s ad is entitled An Evening of Cards, and the illustration was done in 1954 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #98 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, two couples are spending an evening playing cards, most likely bridge at this time period. At least that’s an activity that fairly cries out for beer. I remember my parents having people over, not to play bridge, but pinochle, which really popular when I was a kid. I also recall being in a pinochle club in junior high, where we’d play during the lunch period. I don’t know if it’s a generational thing, or geographic, but nobody I know plays pinochle in California, which is a shame.
Archives for July 9, 2016
Patent No. 1031838A: Beer Saving Apparatus
Today in 1912, US Patent 1031838 A was issued, an invention of Beer Saving Apparatus, for his “Beer Saving Apparatus.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
Having thus fully described” my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: in combination, beer tank, a beer faucet provided with a controlling valve, a pipe leading from said tank to said faucet, a pressure tank, connections between said pressure tank and said beer tank, a pan beneath the aforesaid faucet, a trap beneath said pan, a drainpipe leading from said pan to said trap, a pipe leading from said pressure tank to said trap, a branch pipe lead pipe leading from said tank to said faucet, a pressure’ tank, connections between said pressure tank and said beer tank, a pan beneath the aforesaid faucet, a trap beneath said pan a drain pipe leading from said pan to said trap, a pipe leading from said pressure tank to said trap, a drainage .pipe leading from said trap to’ the first named pipe, a valve for controlling the passage through said branch pipe, a valve or controlling the passages through said drain the pipe leading from the. pressure tank to the trap, ‘a link connected pipe and through to said valves, an operating lever for the controlling valve of the aforesaid faucet, and connections between said lever and said link. In combination, a beer tank, a’beer faucet provided with a controlling valve, a pipe leading from said tank to said faucet a pressure tank, connections between said pressure tank and said beer tank, a pan beneath the aforesaid faucet,a trap beneath said pan, a drain pipe leading from said pan to said trap, a pipe leading from said pressure tank to said trap, a branch pipe leading from said trap to the first named r p through said branch pipe, trolling the passages through said drain pipe and through pressure tank to the trap, means for automatically operating said valves as the controlling valve of the faucet is operated, and a jet pipe connected to said trap and adapt a valve for coned to deliver a sweeping jet into the afore said pan
Patent No. 406486A: Steeping Tub For Steeping Barley
Today in 1889, US Patent 406486 A was issued, an invention of Fritz Susemiehl, for his “Steeping Tub For Steeping Barley or Other Grains.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
My invention relates to improvements in steeping-tubs for steeping barley and other grain, in which the form of the tub is preferably globular, except at its top, and having a spout or mouth-piece on its upper edge at one side similar in form to those found in pitchers, the water being conveyed into the tub through perforations in exit-tubes in connection with compressed air passed through same by means of an air force-pump, the tub or vessel laving a false perforated bottom with trap-door connecting with a conveyer-pipe passing out through the bottom of the vessel; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to permit the barley or other grain and refuse foreign matter floating on top of the water to be discharged from the vessel or tub through its spout or mouth-piece; second, to cause the Water to be discharged with great force in the vessel through the perforations in the exit pipes, to stir and agitate the grain in the vessel, and thus cleansing it from dirt and foreign substances adhering to it; third, to permit the dirt and foreign substances wash ed off the grain, which sink, to pass through the perforations of false bottom and lie upon the real bottom of the vessel, thus separating the same from the cleansed grain, and, fourth, to provide means for expeditiously removing the cleansed grain, after its proper treatment, from the vessel by means of a trap-door through the false bottom and a conveyer pipe leading therefrom through the bottom of the vessel. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front view of the steeping-tub. Fig. 2 is a view of a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a top view of the false bottom. Fig. `1i is a top view of one of the arms of the water and air pipes. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the same on the line :roc ofFig. 4, the exit-pipes being removed; and Fig. 6 is a detail view of the means of attaching one