and was built as part of The Touring Pop-up Sideshow Saloon event organized by the Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum. Technically, this machine uses a flywheel driven by a hand-crank, which pushes a 'crank-slider,' or pivoting piston. At the end of the crank-slider is a carriage where two cocktail shakers live. The elliptical motion produced by the crank-slider lends itself to mixing cocktails, as the ingredients are swirled horizontally as well as vertically.
The Post-Imperial Shaker
This cocktail shaking machine is based on a turn-of-the-century machine called an "Imperial Shaker",
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Funny, it almost looks like it's based on a certain kind of machine one might find at the SF Armory.
Are the drinks better from the shaker on the inner part of the cycle or the outer part of the cycle?
Sadly any additional customers such a device might attract to a bar is probably more than countered by the vastly decreased throughput, lost counter space, etc.
"Jared, we all chipped in and got you something."
This guy was my old neighbor in Oakland. He fooking rools! He had a contraption that made drinks by pulling levers as well. Super nice guy.