| While some people may find reading coffee grounds highly revealing, most do not want the grounds to spoil their enjoyment of drinking the actual coffee.
It was coffee filter inventor Melitta Bentz's two sons who involuntarily helped find a solution to the problem of enjoying coffee without the grounds. In 1908, Melitta Bentz had the idea of putting a piece of blotting paper from their school books to a new use – inserting the paper into a brass pot full of holes to prevent the grounds from getting into the coffee cup. Thus was born the basic principle of the first coffee filter: |
| On 8 July 1908, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin issued a patent to protect the invention as a utility model. After a little more fine-tuning, the family business of M. Bentz started producing paper filters from 1912 and, from 1937, filter bags. |
| Significance: the company founded by Melitta Bentz is now run by her grandchildren. An international group of companies, Melitta now employs a workforce of 3,800. Coffee and coffee machines are marketed under the same brandname. |
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Invented by: Melitta Bentz
In: 1908 |
Coffee filter - Using blotting paper to filter coffee
Coffee filter
