On this day in 1886 Mark L. Deering was granted the patent for Beer Pump. U.S. Patent No. 342,901.

This invention relates to improvements in beer-pumps in which a faucit made double or quadruple, as the case may be, according to the number of barrels that it is desired to draw from, is operate by a single air-pump.

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