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Beer In Ads #1970: Thanksgiving Dinner

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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.

101. Thanksgiving Dinner by John Gannam, 1954

Patent No. 3260395A: Bottle Cap

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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.

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Beer In Ads #1969: After The Game

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Monday’s ad is entitled After the Game, and the illustration was done in 1954 by Haddon Sundblom. It’s #100 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, the kids are back from the football game, and Mom has the salad and jello mold ready for them. Thankfully, someone also set our beer, which is the only thing on the table they really want.

100. After the Game by Haddon Sundblom, 1954

Patent No. 2514773A: Fluid Pressure Dispenser With Gas Pressure Supplying Reservoir Within The Supply Container

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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.

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Patent No. 2165605A: Beer Drawing Apparatus

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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.

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Patent No. 1190841A: Beer Strainer

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Today in 1915, US Patent 1190841 A was issued, an invention of Alexander Almasy and Joseph Bacha, for their “Beer Strainer.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

This invention relates to beer strainers.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a device of the character named adapted to be incorporated in a beer dispensing system between the supply and the dispensing faucet for the purpose of separating all solid impurities from the beer and trapping same.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a beer strainer embodying an improved construction whereby same may be easily cleaned by separating the component parts thereof.

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Beer In Ads #1968: Friends From The Country

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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.

099. Friends From the Country by John Falter, 1954

Patent No. 1966384A: Beer Barrel Bung

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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.

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Patent No. 385981A: Beer Pump

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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.

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