1906-07--Brazil produces a record-breaking crop of 20,190,000 bags,
and the State of Sao Paulo inaugurates a plan to valorize coffee.

1907--The Pure Food and Drugs Act comes into force in the United
States, making it obligatory to label all coffees correctly.

1907--Desiderio Pavoni, Milan, is granted a patent in Italy for an
improvement on the Bezzara system of preparing and serving coffee
as a rapid infusion of a single cup.

1907--P.E. Edtbauer (Mrs. E. Edtbauer), Chicago, is granted a
United States patent on a duplex automatic weighing machine, the
first simple, fast, accurate, and moderate-priced machine for
weighing coffee.

1908--Dr. John Friederick Meyer, Jr., Ludwig Roselius, and Karl
Heinrich Wimmer, are granted a United States patent on a process
for freeing coffee of caffein.

1908--Brazil begins a propaganda for coffee in England by
subsidizing an English company organized for that purpose.

1908--Porto Rico coffee planters present a memorial to the Congress
of the United States asking for a protective tariff of six cents a
pound on all foreign coffee.

1908--The revivification of the valorization coffee enterprise is
accomplished by a combination of bankers and the Brazil Government,
with a loan of $75,000,000 placed through Hermann Sielcken with
banking houses in England, Germany, France, Belgium, and the United
States.

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 Japanese filter paper.

1908-11--R.F.E. O'Krassa, Antigua, Guatemala, is granted several
English patents on machines for hulling, washing, drying, and
separating coffee.

1909--The G. Washington 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