Brookston Beer Bulletin

Jay R. Brooks on Beer

Socialize

Patent No. 1228917A: Manufacture Of Dry Extracts Of Beer

By

patent-logo
Today in 1917, US Patent 1228917 A was issued, an invention of Herman Heuser, for his “Manufacture of Dry Extracts Of Beer, Etc.” There’s no Abstract, though in an old book of Chemical Abstracts, also from 1917, is summarizes it as “A preparation for the formation of alcohol-reduced beer by the addition of H20 is formed of dry extract, [along with] dry, live yeast and fermentable carbohydrates.” The descriptions also picks up mid-sentence (because I suspect there’s part of the application that’s gone missing or the OCR didn’t pick up):

substances to produce in the beverage made by properly water-diluting such compound the desired reduced amount of alcohol by yeast-fermentation; Thus, when such extracts are intended for conversion into beverages of low-alcoholic strength, the amount of added fermentable substances ‘is small, and vice versa it is larger for the manufacture of beverages having higher alcoholic content, but in each case the compound contains yeast in live condition to create fermentation in the dilute beverage to produce the desired reduced amount of alcohol.

Untitled

Patent No. 5021246A: Step Mashing Process For Producing Low Alcohol Beer

By

patent-logo
Today in 1991, US Patent 5021246 A was issued, an invention of Roger L. Sieben and Klaus D. Zastrow, assigned to Anheuser-Busch, for their “Step Mashing Process For Producing Low Alcohol Beer.” Here’s the Abstract:

A low alcohol reduced calorie beer is produced by a mashing technique wherein a main mash at a temperature below the activity range for beta-amylase is added incrementally to a brewing liquid at a temperature above the deactivation temperature of beta-amylase and below the deactivation temperature of alpha-amylase at a rate such that the added main mash is substantially instantaneously raised to the temperature of the brewing liquid. This mashing technique limits the conversion of starches by beta-amylase and other enzymes without significant loss of alpha-amylase from overheating to produce a wort having a low real degree of fermentation of from about 40% to about 46%. The main mash has a temperature of about 95° F. to 120° F., and the brewing liquid has a temperature of about 169° F. to 174° F. and can be water or a cooker mash that has been boiled and cooled. Beer can be produced having less than 2% alcohol by weight and less than about 118 calories per 12 ounce serving.

Untitled

Patent No. 2794453A: Filling Heads For Bottling Machine

By

patent-logo
Today in 1957, US Patent 2794453 A was issued, an invention of Lucien Grosbois, for his “Filling Heads For Bottling Machine.” There’s no Abstract, though the description in the application states that the “invention relates to filling heads adapted to be mounted on bottling machines for gaseous liquids under pressure.”
Untitled
Untitled

Patent No. 2203130A: Beer Energizer

By

patent-logo
Today in 1940, US Patent 2203130 A was issued, an invention of Patrick J. Costello, for his “Beer Energizer.” There’s no Abstract, though the description in the application states that the “object of my invention is to provide a device for drawing beer in its normal stage without applying extra pressure or force, whereby to create a line creamy foam.” I’m not sure what about that “energizes” the beer, but it’s certainly a catchy name.
Untitled

Patent No. 3814003A: Brewing Apparatus

By

patent-logo
Today in 1974, US Patent 3814003 A was issued, an invention of Nickolas Lothar Vacano, assigned to Rainier Companies, for his “Brewing Apparatus.” Here’s the Abstract:

A large size thin-shelled outdoor metal tank, such as for making beer, with a conical metal bottom having a shallow slope of no more than 25 DEG from the horizontal, a conduit communicating with the tank interior at the apex of the conical bottom, a circular cylindrical vertical metal wall joined to the bottom, a metal roof joined to and supported by the vertical wall, insulation exterior of the bottom, wall and roof, a vent opening in the roof, a manifold centrally located in the tank spaced above the bottom and the level of unsuspended solids which may settle therein, said manifold having a plurality of openings through which carbon dioxide gas can exit into liquid in the tank, and a pipe leading from outside the tank to the manifold for supplying carbon dioxide thereto. The tank can have a tubular ring positioned inside the tank adjacent the periphery of the bottom, a pipe communicating with the ring and the exterior of the tank for supplying fluid to the ring, and a plurality of holes in the ring from which fluid under pressure can be ejected along the slope of the bottom to wash solids to the conduit in the bottom for removal.

Untitled

Untitled Untitled

Patent No. 3887431A: Yeast Protein Isolate With Reduced Nucleic Acid Content & Process Of Making Same

By

patent-logo
Today in 1975, US Patent 3887431 A was issued, an invention of Ernest Aleck Robbins, Robert William Sucher Jr., Erich Henry Schuldt, Daniel Robert Sidoti, Robert Dudley Seeley, and Jon Albert Newell, assigned to Anheuser Busch, for their “Yeast Protein Isolate with Reduced Nucleic Acid Content and Process of Making Same.” Here’s the Abstract:

This disclosure relates to a yeast protein isolate (IYP) with less than 9% nucleic acid (RNA) and a Protein Equivalence Ratio (PER) of greater than 1. The yeast protein is made by a process which involves rupturing yeast cells, removing the cell wall residue from an alkaline medium, incubating in such a manner that the endogenous nuclease contained in the solubles portion degrades the nucleic acid present to a soluble form, insolubilizing the protein to separate it from the hydrolyzed nucleic acid, and separating the insoluble protein from the fraction containing soluble nucleic acid.

Untitled

Patent No. 2599080A: Hop Picking Mechanism

By

patent-logo
Today in 1952, US Patent 2599080 A was issued, an invention of Edouard Thys, for his “Hop Picking Mechanism.” There’s no Abstract, though the description in the application states that it’s an “invention relat[ing] to hop picking mechanism and, more particularly, to improvements in hop picking fingers and bars.”

A principal object of the present invention is to provide a finger bar assembly wherein the picking fingers are formed and supported in a fashion to prevent breakage thereof during use.

It is another principal object of the present invention to provide a picking finger assembly comprising a plurality of resilient fingers, supported by a finger bar in a fashion that a resilient finger may be removed easily from the bar, if it becomes necessary, with a minimum delay in the operation of the machine with which the fingers are utilized and in a fashion that requires a minimum of skill.

Untitled

Patent No. 3447375A: Beverage Container Having Sight Gage Means

By

patent-logo
Today in 1969, US Patent 3447375A was issued, an invention of John H. Fox Jr., assigned to the Reynolds Metals Co., for his “Beverage Container Having Sight Gage Means.” There’s no Abstract, though the description in the application states that he’s invented an “improved beverage container having sight gage means made of a solid light transmitting material and extending through opaque outer wall means of such container wherein such sight gage means has outer easily visible viewing surface means and inner surface means arranged to be surrounded by a beverage within such container, such outer surface means having a normally bright appearance which becomes dark upon surrounding the inner surface means with beverage.”

Many carbonated beverages are currently sold in pressurized container means such as kegs, or the like, wherein it would be desirable to determine the amount of beverage within such keg in a simple and inexpensive manner. Although many types of liquid level gages are available most of such gages are complicated, expensive, and provide undesirable easily damaged protrusions from exterior wall means of an associated beverage keg. Accordingly, it is a feature of this invention to provide an improved beverage container having improved sight gage means of simple and economical construction.

Untitled
Untitled

Patent No. 701335A: Device For Drawing Liquids

By

patent-logo
Today in 1902, US Patent 701335 A was issued, an invention of Lucien H. Handy, assigned to the American Faucet Company, for his “Device For Drawing Liquids.” There’s no Abstract, though the description in the application states that he’s “invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Drawing Liquids,” such as:

My invention relates to that class of devices for drawing liquids in which a faucet connection is made and broken with a permanent bung in the barrel or keg simultaneously with the operation of the bung-valve, due to said connection; and said invention is especially applicable to those devices of this type in which for the purpose of drawing lager-beer means are provided for passing a slip-pipe into the liquid in the receptacle and forcing air under pressure upon top of the liquid, whereby the latter is forced up through the slip-pipe.

My invention consists in the novel combinations of bung, controlling-valve, and faucet connection, with its locking and operating key, slip-pipe, and air-passage and in the novel details of construction and arrangement in connection therewith.

Untitled

Patent No. 2888944A: Filling System

By

patent-logo
Today in 1959, US Patent 2888944A was issued, an invention of Rudolph H. Breeback, assigned to Crown Cork & Seal Co., for his “Filling System.” There’s no Abstract, though it’s described this way in the application. “The present invention relates to a filling system and more particularly to a system for delivering beer or other carbonated beverages to a filling machine.”

An object of this invention is the provision of a system for delivering beer to a reservoir of a filling machine whereby the supply of liquid in the reservoir will be controlled by a pressure actuated switch so connected to the reservoir that the pressure acting upon the switch is controlled by the liquid level within the reservoir.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a system for delivering beer to a reservoir of a filling machine whereby the pressure and level of the liquid in the reservoir can be controlled within a range independent of the level and pressure of the liquid in government tank.

Untitled