1835—The first private coffee estates are started in Java and Sumatra.
1836—The first French coffee-roaster patent is issued to François Réné Lacoux, Paris, on a combination coffee roaster and grinder made of porcelain.
1837—The first French coffee substitute is patented by François Burlet, Lyons.
1839—James Vardy and Moritz Platow are granted an English patent on a form of urn percolator employing the vacuum process of coffee making, the upper vessel being made of glass.
1840—Central America begins shipping coffee to the United States.
1840[L]—Robert Napier, of the Clyde engineering firm of Robert Napier & Sons, invents the Napierian vacuum coffee machine to make coffee by distillation and filtration, but the idea is never patented. (See 1870.)
1840—Abel Stillman, Poland, N.Y., is granted a United States patent on a family coffee roaster having a mica window to enable the operator to observe the coffee while roasting.
1840—The English begin to cultivate coffee in India.
1840—Wm. McKinnon & Co.. Aberdeen, Scotland, begin the manufacture of plantation machinery. (Established 1798.)
1842—The first French patent on a glass coffee-making device is granted to Mme. Vassieux of Lyons.