1873—H.C. Lockwood, Baltimore, is granted a United States patent on a coffee package made of paper and lined with tin-foil, with false bottom and top.
1873—The first international syndicate to control coffee is organized in Frankfort, Germany, by the German Trading Company, and operates successfully for eight years.
1873—The Jay Cooke stock-market panic causes the price of Rios in the New York market to drop from twenty-four cents to fifteen cents in one day.
1873—E. Dugdale, Griffin, Ga., is granted two United States patents on coffee substitutes.
1873—The first "coffee palace," the Edinburgh Castle, designed to replace public-houses for workingmen, is opened in London.
1874—John Arbuckle is granted a United States patent on a coffee-cleaner-and-grader.
1875—Coffee cultivation is introduced into Guatemala.
1875–76–78—Turner Strowbridge, of New Brighton, Pa., is granted three United States patents on a box coffee mill first made by Logan & Strowbridge.
1876—John Manning brings out his valve-type percolator in the United States.
1876–78—Henry B. Stevens, Buffalo, assignor to George L. Squier, Buffalo, is granted important United States patents on coffee-cleaning-and-grading machines.