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Patent No. 4571920A: Beer Keg Capping Machine

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Today in 1986, US Patent 4571920 A was issued, an invention of Henry P. Roach and Jeffrey W. Gunn, for their “Beer Keg Capping Machine.” Here’s the Abstract:

A keg capping machine primarily for use with beer kegs having protruding neck portions upon which flexible plastic caps are to be fitted. The machine has a capping head attached to the lower end of an inclined cap chute which is attached on its upper end to a cap storing hopper. The capping head has horizontal flanges on its bottom edge which serve as stops and guideways for caps sliding down the chute. The neck of a keg which is carried along a conveyor moves between the guideways and engages the lower portion of a cap forcing it through the capping head. A cap driving rocker within the capping head is employed to force the cap down tightly onto the neck of the keg.

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Beer In Ads #1831: Facts Versus Fallacies #27

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Wednesday’s ad is another one for the Pennsylvania State Brewers Association, from 1915, No. 27 in series they did from 1915-17 called “Facts Versus Fallacies.” I have no idea how many were done but some of the them are numbered into low triple digits, suggesting there were a lot of them, all in an effort to stop Prohibition from happening and win over support for beer. This ad, marked “27,” tackles the idea that even in moderation, alcohol “impairs a man’s efficiency.” As they point out, countless people made their mark on history while consuming alcohol in moderation.

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Patent No. 1527897A: Barrel Or Keg

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Today in 1925, US Patent 1527897 A was issued, an invention of George Eugene Mittinger, for his “Barrel or Keg.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

My invention relates to improvements in barrels or kegs and more particularly to improvements in collapsible barrels or kegs having a novel construction whereby the barrel is held together in its assembled form and being also constructed in such a manner that the unassembled parts of the barrel will stack so that in shipment tonnage can be put in a freight car.

The object of my invention is to provide a collapsible barrel or keg made in a plurality of sections and adapted to be readily collapsed and assembled as desired.

Another object of my invention is to pro vide a barrel or keg made in a plurality of sections and adapted to be collapsed so that the sections can be readily nested or stacked, whereby a vast amount of space is saved in transportation of the empty containers and tonnage can be packed in a car or the like.

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Beer In Ads #1830: Facts Versus Fallacies #22

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Tuesday’s ad is another one for the Pennsylvania State Brewers Association, from 1915, No. 22 in series they did from 1915-17 called “Facts Versus Fallacies.” I have no idea how many were done but some of the them are numbered into low triple digits, suggesting there were a lot of them, all in an effort to stop Prohibition from happening and win over support for beer. This ad, marked “22,” lists several reasons why the then-growing prohibition laws would do little to curb consumption, according to the most recent numbers available for per capita alcohol consumption.

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Beer In Ads #1829: Facts Versus Fallacies #45

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Monday’s ad is for the Pennsylvania State Brewers Association, from 1915, No. 45 in series they did from 1915-17 called “Facts Versus Fallacies.” I have no idea how many were done but some of the them are numbered high into double digits, suggesting there were a lot of them, all in an effort to stop Prohibition from happening and win over support for beer. This ad, marked “45,” ran in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger July 3, 1915. This one lists several reasons why “Prohibition Means Repression!”

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Patent No. 950295A: Beer-Rod

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Today in 1910, US Patent 950295 A was issued, an invention of Mark W. Marsden and Edward Dahn, assigned to the United Beverage Improvement Company, for their “Beer-Rod.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

The object is to provide in a single or unitary element an eduction passage for dispensing the beer or other beverage and means for supplying air for forcing purposes and for cooling the eduction passage.

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Beer In Ads #1828: Facts Versus Fallacies #23

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Sunday’s ad is for the Pennsylvania State Brewers Association, from 1915, No. 23 in series they did from 1915-17 called “Facts Versus Fallacies.” I have no idea how many were done but some of the them are numbered high into double digits, suggesting there were a lot of them, all in an effort to stop Prohibition from happening and win over support for beer. This ad, marked “23,” ran in the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger April 17, 1915. This one rebuts arguments made earlier in April at a public hearing that took place in Harrisburg.

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Patent No. 3305136A: Beer Dispensing Assembly

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Today in 1967, US Patent 3305136 A was issued, an invention of Robert E. Harris, for his “Beer and Soft Drink Dispensing Assembly.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

The present invention relates generally to the dispensing of beverages, and more particularly to an assembly in which a simple source of refrigeration cools keg beer, soft drink concentrates, and domestic water that has been transformed into carbonated water in the assembly, with the cooled beer, as well as the concentrates blended with the carbonated water, being selectively dispensable from the assembly by use of a single source of carbon dioxide gas under pressure.

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Beer In Ads #1827: Kossuth — Greatest Of Hungarians

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Saturday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1914, No. 10 in another series they did in 1914-15 called the “National Heroes Series.” The tenth, and final, one features Lajos Kossuth, who “was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49. With the help of his talent in oratory in political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry family into regent-president of Kingdom of Hungary. As the most influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: “Among the orators, patriots, statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior.” Kossuth’s powerful English and American speeches so impressed and touched the most famous contemporary American orator Daniel Webster, that he wrote a book about Kossuth’s life. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in Great Britain and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe. Kossuth’s bronze bust can be found in the United States Capitol with the inscription: “Father of Hungarian Democracy, Hungarian Statesman, Freedom Fighter, 1848–1849.”

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Beer In Ads #1826: Admiral de Ruyter — Greatest Of Holland’s Sea Captains

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Friday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1914, No. 9 in another series they did in 1914-15 called the “National Heroes Series.” The ninth one features Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, who “was a Dutch admiral. He is the most famous and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history, most famous for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century. He fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably being the Raid on the Medway. The pious De Ruyter was very much loved by his sailors and soldiers; from them his most significant nickname derived: Bestevaêr (older Dutch for ‘grandfather’.)”

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