Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Fountain Coffeepot. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Fountain Coffeepot.

Below is shown an important improvement on the French coffee pot in which the water has to be poured through the ground coffee several times, the grounds in the old-style pot being suspended in a cloth strainer and the water allowed to filter through. In this new pot the water is automatically elevated to the top of the interior and

falls in a continuous spray on the ground coffee. This is accomplished by means of the central vertical tube, which is provided with a flar-

ing disk at the bottom,the latter having openings around the outer edgp for the entrance of the water. It is a wellknoyrn fact that the water boiling in a pot or kettle can be made to force Itself through a vertical tube provided with a disk at the bottom, and as openings are cut around the top of the tube the water falls directly on the wire gauze strainer secured to the tube just below the perforations. The pot can be filled with water to any desired point below the strainer, and when the required quantity of coffee grounds is placed on the gauze support and the pot placed over the fire it will automatically filter the strength from the grounds. As soon as this has been accomplished, the grounds are allowed to drain for a short time and the fountain and strainer are then lifted out before serving the coffee. One advantage of this device is that the slight jarring of the strainer by the movement of the boiling water causes the grounds to readjust themselves constantly, thus presenting all sides to the hot water.