Patent No. 2287500A: Sanitary Beer Comb And Cocktail Mixer Receptacle

June 23, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1942, US Patent 2287500 A was issued, an invention of Peter Solinas, for his “Sanitary Beer Comb And Cocktail Mixer Receptacle.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

My invention relates to receptacles for cleansing beer combs and cocktail mixers.
Heretofore in the art where beer has been served over a bar it has been customary for the bartender to use a. beer comb to scoop off the excess top foam of a glass or stein of beer. The bartender by custom then places the beer comb in a glass of stationary water until he needs to use the beer comb again for another service. It is apparent that where a glass is used that the water is stationary and in a comparatively short time becomes stale and mixed with some of the beer leavings which have been introduced into the glass from time to time. It is obvious that very soon after the glass has first been used that the water will be so sour and distasteful that it will not properly clean the beer comb but will on the other hand leave the beer comb in such a condition that when the comb is next used to scoop out the top of a beer glass that the comb will leave stale drippings on top of the latest glass of beer to the distaste of a patron.
It is an object of my invention to provide a device whereby the beer comb may be conveniently held and entirely cleansed before each serving of a glass or stein of beer.
It is a further object of the invention to provide such a device in an accessible position and in which the beer combs may be easily placed.

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Patent No. 4275097A: Protective Coating For Cans And Methods For Application Of Coating Thereto

June 23, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1981, US Patent 4275097 A was issued, an invention of Frank L. Shriver, assigned to the Coors Container Company, for his “Protective Coating for Cans and Methods for Application of Coating Thereto.” Here’s the Abstract:

Apparatus and methods of applying a thin narrow width coating to can body members comprising a feed control means associated with a guideway means for causing rotating moving of the can body members across an elongated coating applicator roller member extending parallel to the path of movement of the can body members, the rotation of and spacing of the can body members and the rotation of the applicator roller member being controlled to apply the coating during substantially only one revolution of the can body member and less than one revolution of the roller member.

Patent No. 2891555A: Machine For Plucking Hops

June 23, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1959, US Patent 2891555 A was issued, an invention of Albert E. Brookes, for his “Machine For Plucking Hops or Like Plants.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

This invention relates to a machine intended primarily for plucking hop flowers from their bines, but also usable for analogous purposes such, for example, as the plucking of beans form their bines or the separation of seeds from herbs and the like, and has for its object to provide such a machine in a convenient and efficient form, and particularly to provide an improved means for gripping and traversing the bines relative to plucking means.
In a machine according to the invention a plurality of pairs of endless driving chains are arranged parallel with one another, each pair of chains having parallel runs between which the bine is adapted to be held transversely for movement relative to plucking means.

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Patent No. 3257033A: Beer Dispensing Apparatus

June 21, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1966, US Patent 3257033 A was issued, an invention of Reginald W. Stott, for his “Beer Dispensing Apparatus.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

This invention relates to a combined apparatus for the semi-automatic dispensing of a predetermined quantity of liquid and to the simultaneous counting of the number of such predetermined quantities of liquid which have been dispersed. A subsidiary aspect of this invention is a valve control means for use in that apparatus, and particularly a switch arrangement associated with said valve. The apparatus is particularly suited for the dispensing of effervescent liquids, and more particularly for the dispensing of beer.
It is necessary, in the dispensing of effervescent or gas charged liquids such as, for example, beer, to dispense such liquid, even by relatively inexperienced help, in such a manner that uniform results are obtained. It is also necessary that such dispensing means be capable of being set quickly and easily for the drawing of varying amounts of such liquids, i.e., for the drawing of two, or more, different sizes of drafts. Furthermore, it is desirable to have means associated with such dispensing means to count the total number of each size of drafts which have been drawn.
It was proposed accomplishing these ends by the use of an auxiliary storage tank where the required amount of beer was stored prior to dispensing. This proved undesirable, since this auxiliary storage, and the means used to dispense the beer therefrom, tended to have a detrimental effect on the delicate quality of the beer.
A prime feature, therefore, of the present invention, is the provision of apparatus whereby beer and similar liquids may be dispensed by relatively inexperienced help, in such a manner that uniform results are obtained.
A further feature is the provision of means whereby the apparatus may be quickly and easily set for the automatic dispensing of two or more different quantities, i.e., two or more different sizes of drafts.
A still further feature of this invention is the provision of counter means for the cumulative totalling of the number of each size of drafts which have been dispensed.

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Patent No. 2121458A: Apparatus And Process For Aerating Wort In Yeast Production

June 21, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1933, US Patent 2121458 A was issued, an invention of Wilhelm Vogelbuseh, for his “Apparatus And Process for Aerating Wort in Yeast Production.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

In the production of yeast, air is supplied to the wort during the fermentation in order to meet the oxygen requirements of the multiplying cells and also to render harmless the interchange products which are produced. Hitherto, compressed air from an air pump has usually been introduced into the wort through a rigidly mounted tube system which is placed horizontally at the bottom of the fermenting vat and the separate tubes of which are provided with holes. The attempts in recent years to reduce the size of the air bubbles have led to the diameter of the air outlet holes being reduced down to 0.3 mm. On account of the danger of stoppage and the difficulty of keep through such holes. Distributing devices provided with tubes or boxes of burnt clay, stoneware, sintered glass, etc. to act as air outlet surfaces have been used. The saving in power, however, does not correspond to the reduction of the amount of air as these materials, on account of their smaller permeability, require a higher operating pressure. keep such a body perfectly clean as is required for avoiding contamination.
The object of the invention is to avoid these disadvantages, and the invention consists in that a hollow body of suitable shape serving for delivery large openings and which, in the direction of movement, offers as little resistance as possible and allows the air to escape preferably in a direction different from the direction of movement and preferably at right angles or approximately at right angles thereto is moved through could hitherto only be obtained in the yeast industry by using the above-mentioned ceramic materials for the air supply member. In addition, it is difficult to ring the air into the liquid through comparative count of the above-mentioned disadvantages, have not become widely used.

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Patent No. 2163468A: Process For Making Hopped Beer Wort

June 20, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1939, US Patent 2163468 A was issued, an invention of Carl Rach, for his “Process For Making Hopped Beer Wort.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

Heretofore in the process of making this wort, unmalted cereals (such as corn grits or rice) were mixed with malt (such as malt barley or wheat malt) and were cooked with water at a temperature around the boiling point in a large container or cooker, the resulting mixture being led from the cooker into a mash tub where it was mixed with a malt mash and kept for onehalf hour or more at mashing off temperature. The wort which resulted from this .last mashing operation was strained through the undissolved grains of the material or mash resting upon a false bottom, with which the mash tub is provided. During this operation the undissolved grains on the false bottom served as a filter mass. The usual practice in the next stage of the old process was to wash the grains by pouring hot water upon them in the mash tub to remove the remaining wort extract. This washing of the grains or sparging operation, as commonly called, resulted in a wort which was of much lower As the sparging operations continued the resulting worts were of less and less density and after they were all collected together in a large kettle they had to be boiled to evaporate some of the water and increase the density to the desired degree, which is between 12 to 13% as measured by the Bailing saccharometer.
This evaporation and concentration of the wort was disadvantageous in that it required time, labor and fuel and thus increased the cost of the beer.
Thus it is an object of my invention to provide a process which eliminates the necessity of boiling the wort to concentrate it, and thus (1) to reduce the expense of the process, and (2) to permit greater control of the composition and chemical nature of the product, by reason of boiling being carried on only to chemically affect the wort and not to evaporate water.

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Patent No. 2750945A: Hop-Picking Machine

June 19, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1956, US Patent 2750945 A was issued, an invention of Millard E. Crowley, for his “Hop-Picking Machine.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

Having set forth the invention broadly, included among the objects thereof are the following: to provide a hop picking machine capable of the simultaneous raking of hops from vines and short arms; to provide apparatus capable of multi-directional combing of hop vines and arms; to combine in a single machine, functions heretofore deemed characteristic of separate machines, as well as, to produce additional functions without the necessity of employing all parts required by the separate machines; to combine in a single machine, capable of continuous operation over extended time intervals, the functions of hop vine and arm picking; and to provide a short arm picker per se capable of optimum picking action.

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