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Cory Corporation

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Cory coffee maker (1948 ad)

Harvey Cory patented his glass filter rod design (No. 114097), for which the patent was granted in 1939.[1]

In 1951, the Cory Corporation, a Chicago company, bought Autopoint from Union Carbide. Cory operated Autopoint as a division appointing the president.

In the 1967, the Hershey Chocolate Corporation bought the Cory Corporation.[2]

Later Hershey Chocolate sold this division to ARA Services (Aramark) making them the leading office coffee provider in the United States. As of 2017 Aramark provides over a billion cups of coffee a year to its customers.

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