Military Combination Utensil, applicable as a Cooking Vessel, a Shield, and a Spade.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1893
[[Communicated from abroad by JENS ZINN, Architect, of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Military Combination Utensil, applicable as a Cooking Vessel,
a Shield, and a Spade.
I, JASPER WETTER, Patent Agent, of 433 Strand, in the County of London,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :→
The invention relates to a cooking vessel made of aluminium or other suitable
material, and which is collapsible in such a manner, as to form a shallow, round
object, applicable as a soldier's shield, while a single shield plate may be used also
as a shield, a spade or a hoe.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a vertical section showing a cooking vessel and accessories in a folded
condition, so as to occupy a minimum of space.
Fig. 2 shows it in a drawn-out position standing on a tin box or casing, which
receives the apparatus when folded together, but which-when the vessel is drawn
out or in working condition, may be placed upside down and used as a stand.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the apparatus, when covered by a frying pan m, which
has a moveable handle n.
As shown by Fig. 2, the cooking vessel is composed of 5 truncated conical
rings, a, b, c, d, e, whose width is chosen in such a way, that they may be boxed
one into the other, after which the rings occupy the position shown in Fig. 1.
The lowermost ring e has a bottom e', and the uppermost has a loose lid U, as
also a circular handle P, which, when vertical, reaches with its lower half the
bottom, in which position it is kept by means of a catch or stop. The outer-
most tin box F contains a receptacle G, (indicated in Fig. 2 by dotted lines),
which is intended to hold alcohol or spirits. R indicates the lid of the tin box
fastened by means of a hinge joint p.
In Fig. 1, where the tin box is reversed, the receptacle is situated at the top,
and the box F encloses the pan m, n, in which position the apparatus may be
used as a shield, especially as a protection for the breast or lower part of the
body. In the centre of the lid of the box, there is a circular hole for the flame.
For using the apparatus as a shield, the loose cover U is placed inside this
hole, and the apparatus attached by means of straps. In the opposite side of
the box there is room for a shield-plate H, which is preferably made of an alloy
of aluminium with 10 per cent. titanium, or of nickel-steel, or some other metal,
which offers the greatest possible resistance to rifle bullets. The plate H may
also be used as a spade, and is then provided with a shaft h, which is united
to the plate by a hinge joint and stiffened by 3 rods r, s, t, which are fastened
to eyelets r, s, t'. The shaft is divided into two parts united by a hinge
joint o, so that it may be folded up, as shown in Fig. 5. The upper end of the
shaft is tubular, for the reception of a hammer Q. The spade may also be used
as a hoe, in the manner shown by Fig. 6. The rods r, s, t, are then fixed in
the eyelets, 37, 1.
Fig. 8 shows two cooking vessels joined together face to face, so as to form
a vessel pointed to both sides.
Fig. 9 shows a loose foot, whose vertical legs may be folded together by means
of hinge joints 1.
In Fig. 1 the casing or tin box F contains the cover U, a frying-pan m, with
handlen, two plates g, a shield plate H with shaft h convertible into a spade

page_text: or hoe; a spirit vessel G, all covered by the lid R fastened to the box by the hinge
joint p.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A metallic cooking vessel composed of several tapered rings adapted to be
boxed one into the other, in combination with a metallic casing adapted to serve
as a stand when the cooking vessel is in use, substantially as described.
2. The arrangement of cooking apparatus and casing in a folded or boxed up
condition, so as to serve as a soldier's shield, substantially as described.
3. The plate H adapted to be used as a shield, a spade or a hoe, substantially as
described.
Dated this 17th day of November 1892.
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FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.