1869—Henry E. Smyser, assignor to the Weikel & Smith Spice Co., Philadelphia, is granted his first United States patent on a spice box used also for coffee.
1869—Licenses to sell coffee in London are abolished.
1869—The coffee-leaf disease is first noticed in Ceylon.
1870—John Gulick Baker, Philadelphia, one of the founders of the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania, is granted a patent on a coffee grinder introduced to the trade by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. as its Champion No. 1 mill.
1870—Delephine, Sr., Marourme, is granted a French patent on a tubular coffee roaster that turns over the flame.
1870—Alexius Van Gulpen, Emmerich, Germany, brings out a globular coffee roaster having perforations and an exhauster.
1870—Thos. Smith & Son, Glasgow, Scotland, (Elkington & Co., successors), begin the manufacture of the Napierian vacuum coffee-making machines for brewing coffee by distillation.
1870—First United States trade-mark for essence of coffee is registered by Butler, Earhart & Co., Columbus, Ohio.
1870—The first coffee-valorization enterprise in Brazil results in failure.
1871—J.W. Gillies, New York, is granted two patents in the United States for roasting and treating coffee by subjecting it to an intervening cooling operation.