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 entitled
_Il Caffe_.

1910--Frank Bartz, assignor 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 Damptite cans for coffee are
introduced by the American Can Company.

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

1911--Robert H. Talbutt, Baltimore (assignor to J.E. Baines,
trustee, Washington) 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'Krassa, Antigua, Guatemala, is granted four United
States patents on machines for washing, drying, separating,
hulling, and polishing 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. J