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Show 1 AUTO KITCHEN FOR SQLBSER LADS 2000 Men Can Get Three Hot Meals a Day, Dentistry and Shoe-repairing. (Denver Poot.) Tho old adago that "noccsslty is tho mother of invention" is aptly illustrat. cd by tho wide varioty of interesting motor devices which aro belns invent. bd and supplied to tho -varying needB ot the country in time of war. American Ameri-can ingenuity has not failed to meet overy condition and situation. Tho result Is the production of many now and interesting typos of motor vehicics. Ono of tho most imperative needs of an army is that It bo fed regularly with plenty of good, hot food. A new typo of mobile army kitchen appeared recently which woll Illustrates the ingenuity in-genuity of American Industry. This new camp kitchen will sorve three hot meals a day to a battalion of 2.000 men and will provide enough coffee for 1,000 men every ton minutes. This vehicle was demonstrated recently In Now Haven, Conn., where 1,750 men wero fed in less than an hour. All cooking is done by live steam and two cooks displace twenty company kitchen units, which require eighty men and forty horses for operation. The complete kitchen consists of a ten horsepower steam boiler, two ninety- gallon stew, soup or pot roast kettles and two fifty-gallon coffee urns. The boiler Is a vortical lire tube type and burns coal, wood or oil. The entire unit probably weighs between be-tween eight and nine-tons and Is cap-able cap-able of a load speed of fifteen miles an hour under favorable conditions. Tho unit is designed to go with or ahead of a battalion on the march. Meals aro cooked on the road and when the battalion halts hot food is ready. When a battalion entrains the kitchen is put on a flat car and goes right on cooking. Another American inventive genius has devised a protablo bread bakery which will make G.000 loaves of bread an hour. This Is an automatic bread-baking bread-baking unit, mounted on a motor truck, and is considered a great asset to tho army. Tho claim In mado that this is tho only automatic unit machine ma-chine in existence that will completely complete-ly make a loaf of bread and perform all functions customary to hand labor. Another truck equipment which undoubtedly un-doubtedly will prove a very useful invention in-vention to Undo Sam Is a portablo dental laboratory which is mounted on two-ton chassis. The fdea or motorized dental relief is one which was altogether stimulated by tho war. Soldiers who are suffering from tooth, ncho are about as badly Incapacitated for service as if thoy were actually i wounded, and the motor dental labor j atory traveling behind tho lines and i relieving sufferings of soldiers who are having trouble with their teeth 1 will be greatly welcomed. I The equipment of the laboratory ! is modern in every detail. Including j everything that could possibly bo needed in tho fitting out of a most elaborate dental parlor. It is believed believ-ed that tho introduction of dentistry into tho medical servlco rondered back of the lines will result in the reduction of disease. Propor digestion diges-tion depends largely, on the teeth being be-ing In first-class condition and it la of special importanco that every aid to facilitate good digestive be provided provid-ed to the army, the digestive powers of which no doubt aro strained by the strenuous conditions under which it exists. Still another interesting and ingenl- ous aauiuon to mo military equip- : mont is a motor truck shoe-repairing outfit, the only ono of its kind in the world. This is attached now to the Second brigade of Massachusetts re-, glraents. The outfit consists of a five-ton five-ton truck and a four-ton trailer. The truck carries all tho shoe-reparing j machinery and the trailer serves as ' a storehouse for tho repaired shoes j and also as a place of habitation for tho crew of six men required to operate oper-ate the outfit. Tho outfit has a capacity cap-acity of 300 pairs a day of normal work, which may ' be increased by keeping It going at night. Doubtless under tho stross of war tho peoplo of the United States will learn very frequently of further new creations of the inventivo American mind and it may safely be estimated that In any timo of stress the motor truck industry, in lino with tho rest of tho country, will produce the ned-ful ned-ful article, so that tho fighting forcos of tho United Stales may not only bo tho best equipped but tho best cared for, fed and transported of all the troops in tho world. |
