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The manual kit has four parts, and each one has a documented role in the brew.
The paper filter is the first part and the one with a dated origin: the commercial paper coffee filter was invented in Germany by Melitta Bentz in 1908. It holds the ground coffee, catches the fines and lets the brewed liquid pass through into the vessel below.
The dripper cone sits on the carafe or pot and carries the filter. The definition of pour-over names the vessel explicitly — water seeps through the grounds into a carafe or pot — so the cone and the vessel are one unit in practice.
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The kettle delivers the water. The manual routine depends on slow staged pouring, and the kettle is the part that makes that possible. Willy Brand's 1944 automatic drip brewer in Switzerland replaced the hand with a machine that poured circularly onto circular paper filters.
The carafe or pot receives the finished brew. Drip brew coffee makers largely replaced the coffee percolator, and the carafe is the reduced form of the pot those machines feed.
Paper filter systems were introduced by Melitta in 1908, 1932, 1936 and 1965, by Chemex in 1941 and by Hario in 2004. Each system is a variation on the same filter-and-cone arrangement, so the equipment table on the main page applies across all of them.
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