Harvey Cory patented his glass filter rod design (No.
[1] In 1951, the Cory Corporation, a Chicago company, bought Autopoint from Union Carbide.
Cory operated Autopoint as a division appointing the president.
[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.