WOMEN IN SCIENCE: MELITTA BENTZ

Biography:

Her real name is Amalie Auguste Melitta Liestcher.

She has born the 31•01•1873, at Saxon capital of Germany, and she dies 29•06•1950.

She was the daughter of an editer.

She married with Hugo BENTZ, and they have two sons, Horst and Will Bentz.

Melitta founded a organitation called “Melitta”

The 20 of June the 1908 she have the patent and the 15 of December the company was registered by the name of “M.Bentz”.

On the first sell, they sold 1200 filters for coffee on the fair of Leipzing in 1909.

One year leater the company won one medal of gold in the International Exposition and one silver medal in the Association of Saxon's Hotel Mangers.

After the outbreak of the first mundial war they took away the material for construct zepelins.

Her married was destined to Romania and the import of the coffee was impossible because of the blockade of Britains.

She moved back to Desde.

In 1928, because of the big demand of the product she has to put 80 workers more, and they have to do doub a

le tourns.

About the invention:

It is a kitchen utensil that serves to filter hot water and coffee beans.

Melitta was fed up with the bitter and lumpy coffee.

it is simply to throw water
hot on ground coffee. The water will pass through the coffee particles and through a filter, and falls into a container.
They are usually made of paper, they are not reusable or stainless steel, reusable. They are round, but recently they have invented some with a sachet shape that carry the coffee inside.