Today in 1968, US Patent 3392879 A was issued, an invention of Eugene Blea, for his “Beer Dispenser and the Like.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims:
This invention relates generally to vending machines. More specifically it relates to machines for vending beer in bottles or in cans.
Today in 1884, US Patent 301860 A was issued, an invention of Peter James Catterall and Edward Birch, for their “Valve for Regulating the Supply of Liquor.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims:
Our improvement relates to the invention for which we obtained Letters Patent of the United States No.’ 253,683, dated February 14, 1882, and is partly or wholly applicable for other purposes and the object of our invention is to form an improved valve for regulating the supply of beer, water or other liquid. We attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing the valve applied to apparatus for raising beer or other liquid. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation upon a larger scale of the valve. Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional elevations of a modified form of the valve. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the back-pressure valves. Fig. 6 is an elevation, partly in section, of the ball-valve in the water-supply pipe, and of the treadle for actuating the same. Fig. 7 is a plan of Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation of an air-vessel for the prevention of concussion in the water-supply pipe; and’Fig. 9 is a detached view in section, showing our arrangement for connecting the chamber to the water-chest.
Today in 1903, US Patent 733732 A was issued, an invention of Jacob Mueller, for his “Screen For Hop Separating Machines.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims:
This invention relates to an improved screen for separating hops from the seeds after they have been separated from their stems by one of the well-known machines used for this purpose, such as the one for which Letters Patent were granted to me, No. 314,116, and dated March 17, 1885, or any other suitable machine; and the invention relates more specifically to a compound screen by which the larger leaves of the hop-scales are separated from the seeds and the smaller leaves from the lupulin or fine gummy particles in a very effective manner in four separate receptacles, so that the seeds and other parts which are not used in brewing processes are separated from the lupulin, scales, and leaves, which permits thereby a better utilization of the hop seeds in the brewing process, as the objectionable parts of the same have been separated and for this purpose the invention consists of a screen for separating hop-scales after they are removed 0 from their stems which comprises an oscillating shaker provided with a bottom screen and conveying-hopper and a plurality of inclined screens arranged below the lower end of the shaker, said screens being of different character and degrees of fineness,so as to separate the hop-scales from the seeds, lupulin, and smaller particles and pass each into suitable receptacles; and the invention consists, further, of certain details of construction and combinations of parts, which will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claims.
Today in 1954, US Patent 2683594 A was issued, an invention of Harvey J. Davis and Eugene Martenson, for their “Grain Drying Machine.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims:
Our invention relates to improvements in grain drying machines for small grain, especially oats, wheat, rye, barley and corn.
The primary object of our invention is to provide an efficient portable machine for removing, under the action of heat a sufficient amount of moisture from such grain to prevent molding, but, without damaging the grain as regards germination, color, odor, or taste.
Another object is to accomplish the above while agitating the grain so that it will be uniformly but slowly dried under the action of heat at a low temperature.
Still another object is to provide a machine for the above purposes which is economical to manufacture, use and service, and easily cleaned.
Today in 1937, US Patent 2086832 A was issued, an invention of Charles Candee Green, for his “Dispensing and Storage Cabinet for Effervescent Beverages.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims:
I claim:
1. The combination in a beverage dispensing cabinet having an open front, a center-post at the front of the cabinet, and anelevated horizontal support rigid with the post and cabinet,
with a pair of oppositely opening hinged doors, of a tray extending substantially the combined width of the two doors and hinged to the cabinet above the doors, a prop pivoted on the cabinet adapted to rest on the support for holding the tray in open position, a stop-rib mounted on the under face of the tray, and rabbets on the upper edges of said doors for frictional engagement with the stop-rib when the tray and doors are closed.
2. The combination with an open-front cabinet having a center-post, and a pair of oppositely-opening hinged-doors, of a tray extending substantially the combined Width of the two doors and hinged to the cabinet above the doors, a stop-rib mounted on the under face of the tray to form a front edge-groove, and rabbets forming a complementary groove at the upper edges of the doors, whereby frictional engagement of the rabbets against the stop-rib holds the tray against opening movement when the tray and ‘doors are in closed position.
Tuesday’s ad is entitled Thanksgiving Dinner, and the illustration was done in 1954 by John Gannam. It’s #101 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, a young woman carries a very large turkey to the table, and all the man sitting there can think to do is get out of the way. Which is essentially what all the men are doing, staying out of the way while the womenfolk do all the work putting on the Thanksgiving Dinner. It was certainly a different time. That’s how I remember Thanksgiving, which growing up was always at great-grandmother’s home (and then later by great aunt who live there, too) when the men would be in the living room watching television (usually sports) while all the women would be in the kitchen. Then we ate in two shifts because it was a small house but a large family. Then we’d split up again by gender as the women cleaned everything up, and the men watched football. It seemed strange to me, even then.
Today in 1892, US Patent 478592 A was issued, an invention of Charles Candee Green, for his “Hop Picking Machine.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
My invention relates to an improvement in machines for picking hops from the vine.
Today in 1966, US Patent 3260395 A was issued, an invention of Nicholas D. Ellis, assigned to Anheuser Busch, for his “Bottle Cap.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
This invention relates to an improved bottle cap which can be removed from a bottle by hand without the aid of a bottle opener. This bottle cap may be applied to bottles, such as beer or soda bottles, in the conventional manner with existing high speed automatic capping equipment. Further, this bottle cap may be removed if desired by conventional bottle openers which are in use today.
Bottle caps which require no separate opener, or so called self-opening bottle caps, are generally old and are of different design. Some of these bottle caps have a tongue which extends downwardly from the depending skirt and others have constructions which make them difficult to handle in a hopper and to use on the high speed automatic bottling equipment which exists in many bottling shops or plants today. Others of these self-opening bottle caps have a tongue struck from the metal cap itself which is pulled completely free of the cap when opening, with the result that the remaining portions of the bottle cap are propelled like a rocket and cause property damage or cause personal injury. This frequently happens when the bottle cap is removed rapidly so that the tongue portion remains in the lingers of the person opening the bottle, but the remainder of the bottle cap is free to y upwardly or away from the bottle. Still others cannot be opened in the conventional manner with bottle openers if desired. And others result in the cutting of the fingers with sharp metal edges When opening.
The principal object of the present invention is to provide a self-opening bottle cap which can be used in existing bottle cap handling apparatus and bottle cap machines for application to bottles, said bottle cap comprising an outer shell, an inner disc, and a seal adapted to seal the bottle cap to the bottle and to prevent the outer shell and inner disc from separating either before or after the bottle cap is removed. Another object is to provide a self-opening bottle cap, a tongue having a rounded edge which protects the lingers against cutting and which is not pulled off in its entirety, so that the removed bottle cap remains in the hands of the person opening the bottle. This prevents the pressure in the bottle from propelling the cap or parts thereof at great speed. Another object is to provide fewer scores in the depending skirt of the bottle cap hereinbefore described, thereby reducing the possibility of splitting the score during the crowning operation so as to create a leaker. Another object is to provide these advantages in a bottle cap which can be removed by a conventional bottle opener if desired.
Today in 1950, US Patent 2514773 A was issued, an invention of Wallace R. Kromer, assigned to the Superflow Mfg. Corp., for his “Fluid Pressure Dispenser with Gas Pressure Supplying Reservoir Within the Supply Container.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
This invention relates to a dispensing device for beer or carbonated beverages and has for its object to provide a dispensing container that is provided with cooling and pressure generating means that are so designed that they occupy but Small space within the container and reduce but little the liquid capacity of the container.
A further object is to provide a dispensing container of simple. compact construction having convenient cooling, pressure generating and dispensing devices attached to its top wall and adapted to be disposed wholly Within and below the top edge of the chime at the top of, the container so that containers embodying the invention may, be stored and shipped without damage to the attachments; v
An additional object of the invention is to provide a simple” and convenient means for utilizing solid carbon dioxide generally known ‘as DryIce, to cool the beverage and to create and maintain a pressure within the receptacle that will prevent escape of carbon dioxide from the beverage and that U will force the beverage through the tap when the faucet valve is opened.
“A further object of the invention is to provide a faucet that can be moved from an inoperative position overlying the top of the. container, to an operative position projecting laterally from the container and that is detachably fastened in its inoperative position so that it may be used as a handle for carrying the container.
Today in 1939, US Patent 2165605 A was issued, an invention of John C. Baker, for his “Beer Drawing Apparatus.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:
This invention relates to a method and pressure being reduced gradually as the beer apparatus for drawing beer and other brew. The flows through the draft tube at full flow, the rate invention aims generally to provide a method and of flow is reduced much below the full flow rate apparatus whereby the beer may easily and of the tube and nearly the Whole pressure drop 5 quickly be drawn from the keg or other container occurs at the restriction, and, in addition, by 5 and discharged into a glass or other receptacle reason of the diverging walls of the space imto fill the glass with quiescent clear live beer mediately beyond the restriction, the beer is having substantially all the dissolved gas which suddenly subjected to a sub-atmospheric pressure as it contained in the keg and surmounted by a it leaves the restriction flowing at high velocity, collar, or head, of the desired amount of creamy so that the dissolved gas in the beer is caused 10 fine-texture foam; and whereby this may be done suddenly to expand and form minute bubbles at without waste, and without requiring special skill a multiplicity of points, thereby changing a. large on the part of the bartender or other attendant. part, or even substantially all, of the flowing With the dispensing apparatus now generally cooled liquid beer in to a fine-texture creamy foam.
