Melitta Bentz: The 1908 Patent Behind Your Pour Over
Melitta Bentz registered a filter device in 1908, not the paper filter you buy today A Dresden housewife named Melitta Bentz filed for utility-model protection on June 20, 1908, and the registration appeared in the Imperial Patent Gazette on July 8, 1908, on page 1,145 . What she protected was a specific object: a filter…