Sunday’s ad is entitled Friends From the Country, and the illustration was done in 1954 by John Falter. It’s #99 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, some yokels from the boondocks are visiting their city friends. They brought flowers and home-grown vegetables, but the city-dwellers have beer. City 1, Country 0.
Archives for July 10, 2016
Patent No. 1966384A: Beer Barrel Bung
Today in 1934, US Patent 1966384 A was issued, an invention of David A. Fenichell and Samuel Gabel, for their “Beer Barrel Bung.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
This invention relates to a bung especially intended for use on beer barrels, and has for an object to provide a bung which will have all the strength of the normal bung and yet at the same time wherein the spigot may be driven into the barrel through the bung with much less difficulty.
A further object of this invention is to provide a beer barrel bung which will allow the stopper portion to be easily driven therefrom by the spigot without exerting more than the minimum strain on the annulus of the bung, thus eliminating the possibility of splitting the annulus.
Patent No. 385981A: Beer Pump
Today in 1888, US Patent 385981 A was issued, an invention of Robert Wellens, for his “Beer Pump.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
The object of my invention is to provide an improved pump for forcing air into reservoirs for holding beer or other liquids, so as to supply means for discharging the liquid from the reservoir, which pump shall be automatic in its action and shall keep the air-pressure in the reservoir always the same.
My improvements consist,principally,in the mechanism, hereinafter described, by which the water employed to drive the pump is prevented from entering the chamber containing the compressed air and all danger of its entering the reservoir with said air obviated; also in devices by which the pressure of the compressed air in the reservoir is automatically regulated, and, generally, in various details of the apparatus, which I will now describe.
Patent No. 385986A: Beer Cooler
Today in 1888, US Patent 385986 A was issued, an invention of Alois Aufrichtig, for his “Beer Cooler.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
I have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Beer-Coolers. The improvement consists in such construction that either one or more of the pipes or elbows may be removed, and, in combination with such construction, a flanged elbow having parts of different lengths, so that one of the flanges may be in line with the sectional post and the other outside such line.