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Patent No. 2090403A: Beer Container

August 17, 2016 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1937, US Patent 2090403 A was issued, an invention of Paul Murray and Hilton B. Murray, for their “Beer Container.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims:

Our invention relates to a container for maintaining the temperature, pressure and quality and to preserve draught beer and for such other liquids as require similar treatment. We are. aware that beer has been shipped in various types and sizes of barrels and bottles and kept cool and delicious both in unpasteurized draft form and in pasteurized form in bottles and our inventions and improvements are particularly applicable to the preserving and the convenience of making available real draught beer in the home and such other places as have proved difficult to supply by the use of the usual keg, cooler, pump, tap, etc. because of the quantity consumed and the bulk and care of the conventional equipment.

Beer at its best is by our simple device made available in a gallon or more for gradual home consumption as and when Wanted. Beer is thus delivered and maintained in its most delicious and convenient form.

Among the objects are:

To provide a receptacle for keeping draught beer in palatable condition.

To provide a means for regulating the cooling effect of dry ice.

To provide a simple means of retaining a uniform pressure on draught beer in a convenient container.

To provide an beer.

To provide a Ventilating system to distribute a uniform cooling effect to maintain a uniform temperature on draught beer in a convenient container.

To provide a simple and convenient container and means for disassembling and assembling the parts for filling and emptying draught beer.

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Filed Under: Beers, Just For Fun, Politics & Law, Related Pleasures Tagged With: History, Kegs, Law, Patent



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