First United States Coffee-Grinder Patent
Charles Parker, of Meriden, Conn., began work on the original Parker coffee mill in 1828.
A complete English coffee roasting and grinding plant was installed in New York City by James Wild in 1833–34.
About 1840, Central America began making shipments of coffee to the United States.
James Carter, of Boston, was granted (1846) a United States patent on an improved form of cylindrical coffee roaster, which subsequently was largely adopted by the trade in the United States, being popularly known as the Carter "pull-out".
The Geo. L. Squier Manufacturing Co. of Buffalo began in 1857 the manufacture of coffee-plantation machinery. Marcus Mason invented his first pulper in 1860; but the manufacture of coffee-plantation machinery under the firm name of Marcus Mason & Co. did not begin in the United States until 1873.
