Evening star., 1923-06-26
STYLE REFRIGERATOR
FOR AUTO CAMPING
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post
When you have to carry food any
great distance in an automobile, 'es-
pecially when you camp each night
wherever you happen to be, you are
confronted with the problem of pre-
serving perishable fresh food When
You go through towns you can
readily obtain ice at confectionery,
grocery, ice cream and other stores.
If you buy steak from the butcher
he will likely give you a quart or
two of cracked ice. and this amount
will carry your food for twenty four
hours
1t is not difficult to build yourself
an ice box or basket for automobile
TRIPS. There is no need of eating
messy butter, canned milk, dried
fruit and vegetables and general
hardtack. You may, when automo-
pile camping, eat just the same as at
home. The use of ice on tour makes
this possible.
There is on the market a refrigera-
tor basket that is little more eXpen-
Slve than good lunch basket and
that keeps your butter hard. your
milk fresh and sweet. fruit and vege-
tables crisp, your meat or fish pre-
served nicely all day in the hot sun or
! will carry ice-coid drinks.
Basket With Wooden Cover.
The basket is made of reed with a
wooden cover. The interior is lined
with metal, which makes it easy to
keep clean, and between the lining
| and the exterior there is a padding
! that Is Il non-conductor OF heat.
Hence this Refrigerator basket acts
much like the thermos bottle, holding
the cold air in and keeping the hot
outside air out. In one end of this
basket is the compartment where
perhaps two quarts of cracked ice
keep your food fresh.
a ready-made icebox should be
about twelve inches wide by thirty
six inches long, of half-inch lumber
Perhaps you may find just the type
this box you must build another box
about one inch smaller. Between the
two sawdust is packed to- form the
nom conductor.
Ice in this homemade portable re-
! frigerator may be kept in galvan-
lied covered pail in the center of the
box. with the food packed around it,
or simply wooden compartment may
J be built in one end especially for the
! ice. You will need to provide for a
| drip. and place the refrigerator either
on the running board, where the drip
is through a hole bored through the
boxes and the running board. or in
the tonneau, allowing the drip to run
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Ready-Made One Preferable
However, the manufactured prod
uct Is so effective and reasonable in
price that perhaps you might better
buy one The basket has the advan-
tage of being portable, while the box
is far too heavy to move out Of the
car. You can make yourself re-
frigerator basket of a well made reed
basket with cover and handles, with
a cover that fits tight about the top.
Have a tinsmith make a lining of
galvanized iron, smaller than the in
terror by about one inch.
The Insulation between the bask ct
and its lining should be we'll pack d
dry sawdust. The sawdust will fall
through the interstices in the reed of
the basket unless this is lined with
heavy cloth or burlap. Near the top
edge Of the basket, after the lining
and Insulation has been packed, tack
felt strips to cause the cover to fit
tightly in place. The cover itself
should be felt padded all over the
underside, which helps to make 1t q
better n-conductor of heat.
Inside Your refrigerator box or bas-
ket carry your food in glass fruit
jars with screw tops. Some food will
carry nicely in the cans in which you
buy it. Ice cream may be packed
with the ice and served on the camp
table later in the day.