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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
