WASHINGTON, April 3, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
DAILY GRIND
Profile America — Friday, April 3rd. America's coffee-loving public has no grounds for complaint about today's anniversary. On this date in 1829, a patent was issued to James Carrington of Connecticut for a coffee mill. Milling is an ancient process for grinding grains and beans, and the basis of the 1829 patent was largely for its more robust, all-cast iron construction. But Carrington's coffee mill came out to benefit from the country's increasing taste for coffee, which supplanted tea as a favorite beverage around the time of the Revolutionary War. Today, per capita coffee consumption in the U.S. is reckoned at 24.7 gallons annually. The figure for tea is just under 9 gallons per year. There are 445 coffee and tea manufacturing establishments across the country, with annual shipments valued at nearly $12 billion. Profile America is completing its 18th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 3849
Coffee mill patents:
http://www.datamp.org/patents/search/xrefType.php?type=0&class=2900&cat=90
Coffee surpasses tea:
http://stansjournal.com/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=history-mystery%2Fcoffee-tea-or
Coffee and tea consumption:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/datafiles/Food_Availabily_Per_Capita_Data_System/Food_Availability/ctcsp.xls
Coffee and tea manufacturers/NAICS 31192: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=BP_2012_00A1&prodType=table
Value of shipments/NAICS 31192:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2013_31GS101&prodType=table
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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