ohnston, assignor to the Hobart Electric
Manufacturing Co., Troy, Ohio, is granted a United States patent on
a machine for refining coffee.

1914--The Association 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, assignor 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 Association.

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 Association 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 Association.

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 Association, 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, assignor to S. Blickman, New York, is granted
a Unite