area, so avoiding scorching and securing a more
thorough and uniform roast.

1900--The Burns direct-flame gas coffee roaster with a patented
swing-gate head for feeding and discharging at the center, is first
introduced to the trade.

1900--First gear-driven electric coffee grinder is introduced into
the United States market by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of
Pennsylvania.

1900--The Burns swing-gate sample-coffee roasting outfit is
patented in the United States.

1900--Hills Bros., San Francisco, are the first to pack coffee in a
vacuum under the Norton patents.

1900--Charles Morgan, Freeport, Ill., is granted a United States
patent on a glass-jar coffee mill, with removable glass measuring
cup.

1900--R.F.E. O'Krassa, Antigua, Guatemala, is granted an English
and a United States patents on machines for shelling and drying
coffee.

1900--Chemically purified and neutralized rosin as a glaze
(_harz-glasur_) for roasted coffee, designed to keep it fresh and
palatable, is first discovered and applied in Germany.

1900--Charles Lewis is granted a United States patent on his Kin
Hee filter coffee pot.

1900-1901--A new era in coffee is inaugurated when Santos
permanently displaces Rio as the world's largest source of supply.

1901--Kato's soluble coffee is put on the United States market by
the Kato Coffee Company at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.

1901--American Can Co. begins the manufacture and sale of tin
coffee cans in the United States.

1901--Improved all-paper cans for coffee (made of strawboard or
chip-board, plain or manila-lined) are introduced into the United
States market by J.H. Kuechenmeister of St. Louis.

1901--The first issue of _The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal_,
devoted to the interests of the tea and coffee trades, appears in
New York.

1901--Coffee cultivation is introduced into British East Africa
from Reunion Island.

1901--Robert Burns of New York is granted two United States patents
on a coffee roaster and cooler.

1901--Joseph Lambert of Marshall, Mich., introduces to the trade in
the United States a gas coffee roaster, one of the earliest
machines employing gas as fuel for indirect roasting.

1901--T.C. Morewood, Brentford, Middlesex, Eng., is granted an