All About Coffee Part 151

1908--J.C. Prims, of Battle Creek. Mich., patents a corrugated-cylinder improvement for a gas-and-coal coffee roaster of small capacity (50 to 130 pounds) designed for retail stores.

1908--An improved type of Burns roaster, comprising an open perforated cylinder with flexible back head and balanced front bearing, is granted a patent in the United States.

1908--I.D. Richheimer, Chicago, introduces his Tricolator, an improved device employing j.a.panese filter paper.

1908-11--R.F.E. O'Kra.s.sa, Antigua, Guatemala, is granted several English patents on machines for hulling, was.h.i.+ng, drying, and separating coffee.

1909--The G. Was.h.i.+ngton refined (prepared) soluble coffee is put on the United States market.

1909--The A.J. Deer Co. acquires the Prims coffee roaster and re-introduces it to the trade as the Royal coffee roaster.

1909--The Burns tilting sample-coffee roaster is patented in the United States for gas or electric heating units.

1909--Frederick A. Cauchois of New York is granted a United States patent on a coffee urn fitted with a centrifugal pump for repouring.

1909--C.F. Blanke, St. Louis, is granted two United States patents on a china coffee pot with a dripper bag.

1910--The German caffein-free coffee is first introduced to the trade of the United States by Merck & Co., New York, under the brand name Dekafa, later changed to Dekofa.

1910--B. Belli publishes in Milan, Italy, a work on coffee ent.i.tled _Il Caffe_.

1910--Frank Bartz, a.s.signor to the A.J. Deer Co., Hornell, N.Y., is granted two United States patents on flat and concave coffee-grinding disks provided with concentric rows of inclined teeth, used in electric coffee mills.

1911--All-fiber parchment-lined Dampt.i.te cans for coffee are introduced by the American Can Company.

1911--The coffee roasters of the United States organize into a national a.s.sociation.

1911--Robert H. Talb.u.t.t, Baltimore (a.s.signor to J.E. Baines, trustee, Was.h.i.+ngton) is granted a United States patent on an electric coffee roaster.

1911--Edward Aborn, New York, introduces his Make-Right coffee filter, and is granted a United States patent on it.

1912--Robert O'Kra.s.sa, Antigua, Guatemala, is granted four United States patents on machines for was.h.i.+ng, drying, separating, hulling, and polis.h.i.+ng coffee.

1912--The C.F. Blanke Tea & Coffee Co., St. Louis, brings out Magic Cup, later known as Faust Soluble, coffee.

1912--The United States government brings suit to force the sale of coffee stocks held in the United States under the valorization agreement.

1912--John E. King, Detroit, is granted a United States patent on an improved coffee percolator employing a filter-paper attachment.

1913--F.F. Wear, Los Angeles, Cal., perfects a coffee-making device in which a metal perforated clamp is employed to apply a filter paper to the under side of an English earthenware adaptation of the French drip pot.

1913--F. Lehnhoff Wyld, Guatemala City, and E.T. Cabarrus organize the "Societe du Cafe Soluble Belna," Brussels, Belgium, to put on the European market a refined soluble coffee under the brand name Belna.

1913--Herbert L. Johnston, a.s.signor to the Hobart Electric Manufacturing Co., Troy, Ohio, is granted a United States patent on a machine for refining coffee.

1914--The a.s.sociation Nationale du Commerce des Cafes is established at 5 Place Jules Ferry, Havre, to protect the interests of the coffee trade of all France.

1914--The Kaffee Hag Corporation, capital $1,000,000, is organized in New York to continue marketing in the United States the German caffein-free coffee under its original German brand name.

1914--Robert Burns of New York, a.s.signor to Jabez Burns & Sons, is granted a United States patent on a coffee-granulating mill.

1914--The Phylax coffee maker, employing an improved French-drip principle, is introduced to the trade by the Phylax Coffee Maker Co., Detroit (succeeded in 1922 by the Phylax Company of Pennsylvania).

1914--The first national coffee week is promoted in the United States by the National Coffee Roasters a.s.sociation.

1914-15--Herbert Galt, Chicago, is granted three United States patents on the Galt coffee pot, all aluminum, having two parts, a removable cylinder employing the French-drip principle, and the containing pot.

1915--The Burns Jubilee (inner-heated) gas coffee roaster is patented in the United States and put on the market.

1915--The National Coffee Roasters a.s.sociation Home coffee mill, employing a set screw operating on a cog-and-ratchet principle, is introduced to the trade.

1915--The second national coffee week is held in the United States under the auspices of the National Coffee Roasters a.s.sociation.

1916--The Federal Tin Co. begins the manufacture of tin coffee containers for use in connection with automatic packing machines.

1916--The National Paper Can Co., Milwaukee, introduces to the United States trade a new hermetically sealed all-paper can for coffee.

1916--A United States patent is granted to I.D. Richheimer, Chicago, for an improvement on his Tricolator.

1916--The Coffee Trade a.s.sociation, London, is formed to include brokers, merchants, and wholesale dealers.

1916--The Coffee Exchange, City of New York, changes its name to the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, admitting sugar trading.

1916--Saul Blickman, a.s.signor to S. Blickman, New York, is granted a United States patent on an apparatus for making and dispensing coffee.

1916--Orville W. Chamberlain, New Orleans, is granted a United States patent on an automatic drip coffee pot.

1916--Jules Le Page, Darlington, Ind., is granted two United States patents on cutting-rolls to cut, and not to grind or crush, coffee, later marketed by the B.F. Gump Co., Chicago, as the Ideal steel-cut coffee mill.

1916-17--The first hermetically-sealed all-paper cans for coffee are introduced to the United States trade, patented in 1919 by the National Paper Can Co., Milwaukee.

1917--The Baker Importing Co., Minneapolis and New York, puts on the United States market Barrington Hall soluble coffee.

1917--Richard A. Greene and William G. Burns, New York, a.s.signors to Jabez Burns & Sons, are granted patents in the United States on the Burns flexible-arm cooler (for roasted batches), providing full fan-suction connection to a cooler box at all points in its track travel.

1918--John E. King, Detroit, Mich., is granted a United States patent on an irregular-grind of coffee, consisting of coa.r.s.ely grinding ten percent of the product and finely grinding ninety percent.

1918--The Charles G. Hires Co., Philadelphia, brings out Hires soluble coffee.

1918--I.D. Richheimer, promoter of the original soluble coffee of Kato, and the Kato patent, organizes the Soluble Coffee Company of America to supply soluble coffee to the American army overseas; after the armistice, licensing other merchants under the Kato patents, or offering to process the merchants' own coffee for them, if desired.

1918--The United States government places coffee importers, brokers, jobbers, roasters, and wholesalers under a war-time licensing system to control imports and prices.

1918-19--The United States government coffee control results in the acc.u.mulation at Brazil ports of more than 9,000,000 bags; in spite of which, Brazil speculators force Brazil grades up 75 to 100 percent., costing United States traders millions of dollars.

1919--The Kaffee Hag Corporation becomes Americanized by the sale of 5,000 shares of its stock sold by the alien property custodian and by the purchase of the remaining 5,000 shares by George Gund, Cleveland, Ohio.

1919--William A. Hamor and Charles W. Trigg, Pittsburgh, Pa., a.s.signors to John E. King, Detroit, Mich., are granted a United States patent on a process for making a new soluble coffee. The process consists in bringing the volatilized caffeol in contact with a petrolatum absorbing medium, where it is held until needed for combination with the evaporated coffee extract.