Posted on 01/19/2011 10:33:18 PM PST by buccaneer81
In a moment of inspired American innovation, Josh Springer sat at a restaurant in 2009 and was struck with an idea that could one day be recounted in the Smithsonian. (Or at least be toasted by grateful sports fans).
Springer may forever end the dreaded stadium beer line.
“If I can be the person that does that, I’ll die happy,” Springer, 28, joked Tuesday.
Springer and his Montesano, Wash., start-up company GrinOn Industries have invented the “Bottom’s Up Draft Beer Dispensing System.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostgame.com ...
“Springer said stadiums that have used the system have gone from using eight beer pourers for every two cashiers to having one beer pourer for every eight cashiers. A single stand has been able to deliver 56 draft beers in one minute, an unofficial world record.”
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“In a related headline, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka decried the disappearance of beer pourer jobs overseas and vowed to protest until such jobs come back to our shores.”
My hat’s off to Mr. Springer and to Red Hook. Usually the inventor has his invention stolen from him and dies penniless. I thought the usual M.O. would be Red Hook patents a slightly modified version of the invention and their lawyers would threaten Mr. Springer into silence.
Stupendous! Amazing! Outstanding! GIVE THIS GUY A MEDAL!!!
I have a new hero in my life!
Watched the vid and still can’t figure out how this is done
The beer is obviously coming up at high speed from the bottom of what looks like a regular plastic cup, but it’s got to come up through a hole, and that hole has to immediately seal itself or the beer will all fall out the bottom. My first thought was that each cup was placed over a sealing bottom “lid”, but that would be a two-step procedure for each cup ‘poured’. I can’t figure how a hole at the bottom of each cup would seal itself, OR how the beer would stay put inside each cup for long enough even for it to be placed in a second or two onto a separate ‘underlid’ that would seal it effectively.
“The key is the use of a cup that features a hole at the bottom and small, circular magnet that rests over it. When placed on the system, the magnet is lifted up by the pressure-driven beer. The cup fills up until the weight of the liquid pushes the magnet back down over the hole. The cup can then be lifted off and the beer consumed as normal.”
Can’t believe I hate this guy.
What an amazing invention. Saves money, time, cleaner and delivers consistency.
Good for him.
Perhaps Mr. Springer did what I would have done...taken my own patent lawyer along to the meeting with Red Hook.
Now I’m thirsty.
a magnetic diaphram opens when pressure is applied from the bottom and automatically closes when the pressure of the beer achieves its proper weight in ounces.
Pretty clever. Wish I had thought of it.
Will they need to install more bathrooms now?
Now I’m thirsty.
Simply amazing innovation, including the genius of selling advertising on the souvenir magnet. My wife’s going to bring it up to the concession operator at the local track.
No idea, but some patent lawyer must have written one recently, especially with the rise of the computer era in the past 20 years.
I’m willing to bet that this will be standard at every high volume venue in North America within five years.
It’ll be standard at every major sports venue in America within 5 years as well. College through professional.
The wife and I agree, this is like a licence to print money. Sell the empty cups for 3, full for 6, and you’ll be beating off the customers in moments. She also wants an ice tea version.
You had me going there for a minute!
My first thought was an American Beer Hall Putsch! Yikes!
Shhhh! Don’t give the MSM any story ideas! ;-)
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