1859—John Gordon, London, is granted an English patent on a coffee pulper.
1860[L]—Osborn's Celebrated Prepared Java coffee, the pioneer ground-coffee package, is put on the New York market by Lewis A. Osborn.
1860—Marcus Mason, an American mechanical engineer in San José, Costa Rica, invents the Mason pulper and cleaner.
1860—John Walker is granted a patent in England on a disk pulper for pulping Arabian coffee.
1860—Alexius Van Gulpen begins the manufacture of a green-coffee-grading machine at Emmerich, Germany.
1861—An import duty of four cents a pound on coffee is imposed by the United States as a war-revenue measure.
1862—The import duty on coffee in the United States is increased to five cents a pound.
1862—The first paper-bag factory in the United States, making bags for loose coffee, begins operation in Brooklyn.
1862—E.J. Hyde, Philadelphia, is granted a United States patent on a combined coffee roaster and stove, fitted with a crane on which the roasting cylinder is revolved and swung out horizontally from the stove.
1864—Jabez Burns, New York, is granted a United States patent on the Burns coffee roaster, the first machine that did not have to be moved away from the fire for discharging the roasted coffee—marking a distinct advance in the manufacture of coffee-roasting apparatus.