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The dated milestones from Melitta 1908 to Hario 2004, as a timeline of paper-filter brewing.
Commercial paper coffee filters were invented in Germany by Melitta Bentz in 1908, and that date opens the documented record of paper-filter brewing. Everything that follows is a system built on the same idea: water poured over a bed of grounds, crossing a paper filter, collected in a vessel below.
Melitta introduced further documented paper-filter systems in 1932, 1936 and 1965. Chemex introduced its documented system in 1941, and in 1944 Willy Brand developed the first automatic drip brewer using circular paper filters in Switzerland — the point where the pour-over flow stopped requiring a hand at the kettle.
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Hario introduced its documented paper-filter system in 2004, the most recent milestone in this record. Between 1908 and 2004 the underlying procedure did not change: the water still seeps through the bed and the paper filter and is collected in a vessel below; what changed was the chamber, the filter and who does the pouring.
The timeline below lists every dated milestone in order. Each entry comes from the documented record of paper-filter systems, and no undated or estimated years have been added.
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