d 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, assignors
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 coarsely
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
accumulation 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