I never get tired of these pictures.
The ones coming in the next few days were the results of many sleepless nights.
Monday, 20 February 2012
Thursday, 16 February 2012
The beauty and the beauty ... letting her mirror aside...
Same black negligé, sitting on a comfortable base...
but one of these beauties doesn't need a mirror...
anymore.
To Lucio...
992,021 ELECTRICALLY-HEATED VESSEL, Manlio MARZETTI
Manlio Marzetti patented:
"Combined with a vessel containing water to be heated is an insulating disk on the bottom of the vessel, and two electrodes of graphitic carbon int the form of coaxial cylinders resting thereon, a receptacle containg the tea to be infused, and a pipe leading from the inside of the vessel to convey the boiling water to the receptacle."
Filed Dec. 2 1909
959,110 PERCOLATOR - Clarence U. BUCK
Clarence E. BUCK patented:
"A percolator of the character described, comprising a vertically disposed boiler having a flat top and bottom, the top being designed to support a vessel for collecting the infusion, a vertically disposed water pipe passing through the top of the boiler and extending downwardly therein with its lower end open and arranged in close proximity to the bottom of the same, the pipe projecting upwardly beyond said top and having its upper end turned horizontally above the boiler and terminating in a downwardly facing threaded socket, a container for a charge having its opposite ends open and threaded, one end of the container being screwed into the socket to suspend the container in vertically spaced relation to the boiler, a substantially flat strainer extending across the lower end of the container with the charge resting thereon, a screw cap disposed at such lower end and embodying an annular rim having threaded engagement therewith and a bottom abutting the strainer to support the same in place, the bottom being substantially funnel-saped and being provided with a central opening arranged to discharge the infusion into a collecting vessel supported on the top of the boiler, a manually operable valve mounted in the water pipe for regulating the flow of water to the charge container, and a safety calve mounted in the upper portion of the boiler for relieving the same of excessive steam pressure when the aforementioned valve is closed."
Filed Apr. 21, 1909
2,268,633 COFFER MAKER , Leonard E. ASKE
"A coffee maker comprising a sealable water container, a coffee ground basket, a brew container, a heating means for the water container, means or controlling the energization of the heating means, a tube extending from the inside of the water container for conducting hot water therefrom to the coffee ground container, said tube including a portion of restricted cross-sectional area and an opening in the wall of said mined are relatively to the area of said restricted portion to cause cyclic variation of pressure in said water container and cyclic pumping action on the water to force successive small quantities of hot water through the tube."
Application March 22, 1941
NOVATE MILANESE WORKS DESIGN Italy
They didn't know in the mid-50s that the manufacturer was actually BREVETTI ROBBIATI and not NOVATE MILANESE...
NOVATE MILANESE was the suburb of Milan where these coffee machines were made until 1958.
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