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Patent No. 534840A: Apparatus For Blowing Glass

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Today in 1895, US Patent 534840 A was issued, an invention of Michael J. Owens, for his “Apparatus For Blowing Glass.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

My invention relates to an apparatus for blowing glass, and has for its object to perform mechanically, what has heretofore been done manually.

The invention consists in providing an apparatus which shall receive a blow pipe and mechanically blow the glass thereon into the desired form.

Heretofore in the art of blowing glass, there has been a blower necessary, who manually blows the article into the desired form, there being a gathering boy to secure the gathering upon the pipe previous to blowing, and remove the moil after the article is formed and removed from the pipe.

This invention has for its object to mechanically blow the glass and dispense with the blower, it only being necessary for the gathering boy to secure the gathering upon the pipe and place it upon the apparatus and remove the same when the article has assumed the desired shape.

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Patent No. 669033A: Mender For Beer-Pipes

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Today in 1901, US Patent 669033 A was issued, an invention of William J. Hayes, for his “Mender for Beer-Pipes.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

My invention relates especially to a device for temporarily unending or stopping a leak in the lead pipe which connects beer or barrels containing other malt liquors with the tap or With an air pressure supply. Frequently a hole is accidentally blown in such pipes and immediate repairs become necessary before artisans can be summoned to effect a permanent sealing. In accomplishing this I form an open cylinder A, of sheet-brass or other flexible metal, somewhat less in diameter than the pipe. This is provided at its edges with ears or lugs b, both of which are tapped and one screw-threaded to receive a take-up screw f. Inside this cylinder is disposed a rubber bushing cylindrical and split at 7L, Fig. 2.

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Patent No. 879983A: Tap And Bush For Beer-Kegs

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Today in 1908, US Patent 879983 A was issued, an invention of Harry J. Sandell, for his “Tap and Bush for Beer-Kegs.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

My invention has for its object to provide an improved tap anc bush” especially adapted for application to beer kegs, and to this end it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

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Patent No. 1054121A: Hop-Cluster Machine

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Today in 1913, US Patent 1054121 A was issued, an invention of Emil Clemens Horst, for his “Hop-Cluster Machine.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

My invention relates to means for mechanically picking hops and has particular reference to a machine for picking the hops from. clusters which have been separated from the vine during the earlier picking operations.

This mechanism is in a sense a combination with the machine shown in my co-pending application, filed of even date herewith and entitled separating cylinders. In that application an inclined cylinder of polygonal cross section is shown, there being separating means underneath the cylinder. It was found that many clusters of hops did not pass through the interstices in the cylinder but passed as clusters out of the lower end of the machine.

It is the object, therefore, of the present invent-ion to provide novel mechanism whereby any clusters which pass through the separating cylinder shall enter the cylinders of the present invention and there be finally separated.

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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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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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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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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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Patent No. 534541A: Faucet And Attachments Therefor

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Today in 1895, US Patent 534541 A was issued, an invention of Joseph Earl Wright and Edwin A. Grover, for their “Faucet and Attachments Therefor.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

Our invention is an improved faucet, and attachment, for. use in drawing beer, or any other liquid with which it is desirable to pre vent the contact of air within the keg. The faucet is provided with a sliding attachment, comprising an inflatable airbag, and a fixed and sliding tube for pushing the bag out of the faucet proper into the keg and subsequently permitting injection of air, and also with valves for regulating the discharge of the contents of the keg. The construction of the device is such that it is cheap and durable, and is adapted to be used in place of the ordinary beer-faucet.

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Patent No. 398330A: Hop-Shovel

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Today in 1889, US Patent 398330 A was issued, an invention of Benjamin F. Jacobs, for his “Hop-Shovel.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes this summary:

The invention relates to improvements in hop-shovels; and it consists in the constrution and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

It has been the practice to remove the hops from the kiln by means of a rake, which is objectionable, for the reason that when the hops are first dried and yet warm they break up very easily and are very sensitive to the handling they receive. When raked out of the kiln, they not only break, but lose their dust, which detracts materially from their marketable value. The object of my invention is to obviate this difficulty by providing a bag to hold the hops and the dust when it is desired to remove the hops from the kiln.

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