US60743A - kinsley - Google Patents

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H. M. KINSLEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. `60,743, dated January l, 1867.

LUNCH-HEATING APPARATUS.

Y TO) ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

i Be it known that I, H. M. KINSLEY, ofChicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a Portable Self-Heating Lunch Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is aiull and exact descrip-i ti/'on thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification- Figure 1 being a view in perspective of the apparatus in ordinary form.

Figure 2, a central vertical section of the same.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in both of the figures.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with a can, or its equivalent, for containing meats and other articles offood, `a small chamber orompartment for containing a small quantity of alcohol, petroleum, 0r. other heat-producing liquid, suilicient to heat the food in the can; and also, in combining with the can and chamber, a vessel or cup in whichrto burn the alcohol under thev can, the whole being constructed pcrmancntlyw together and used as a single article, substantially as hereinafter specified.

My invention is particularly applicable to self-sealing cans for preserving cooked meats and the like articles of food; and I propose `most generally to apply the chamber or compartment for containing the alcohol or combustible fluid to the bottom of each can, and to add the burning-pan or cup below that as a base on which the whole may rest; but I do not intend to confine myself to any particular form or arrangement of these parts composing my invention.

The accompanying drawings represent a convenient mode of constructing the apparatus.

-Let A represent the sealing can or vessel of any kind to which my invention is applicable, a being the seal; ing cover. To the bottom of the can, or the centre, a small chamber, B, is soldered, large eioiigh to contain a few spoonsfull of the alcohol, which is introduced through a small aperture, 11 then this aperture is hermetically closed, thus retaining the alcohol permanently in the chamber. Abroad base, O, is added below the chamber, B, and may form the bottom thereof. It projects thence as far outl as, er farther, than the edges of the can itself, and a very little distance below the same. Its outer-edge terminates in a narrow rim, c, turned up so as to make a shallow cup, but of suicient capacity to holdthe alcohol as it ilows from the chamber, B. When the can is opened and its contents areto be heated, the cap which covers the hole b, opening into the chamber B, is punctpred, or the chamber is otherwise opened, so that the' alcohol iows out into the shallow cup, C, and is then set on fire. The combustion of this alcohol produces suiicient heat to warm the contents of the can as muchas desired. This device or apparatus will be found to be very convenient and desirable when canned meats or other articles of the kind are used in camp, i'eld; Woods, on excursions, 'or wherever thc means of otherwise warming are not readily at hand. The additional expense of the construction and of the alcohol is but triling. The two features of the holding-chamber I3 and burning-cup C are not necessarily used together, but they are both preferably and most desirably thus employed; and the invention is not solely applicable to cans for sealing up articles of food.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a chamber B, for containing alcohol, or its equivalent, with a` preserving can A, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

I also claim the combination of a burning-cup or dish C with a chamber B, for containing/alcohol, or its equivalent, and a preserving canrA, substantially as and for the purpose herein specied.

The above. specification of my portable self-heating lunch apparatus signed by me this 10th day of November, 1866.

M. KINSLEY,

Witnesses:

J. S. BROWN, H. Af Cnunnoeiz.

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