AN IMPROVED CANTEEN
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Goune, of Pall Mall, in the County of
Middlesex, Captain in the 17th Lancers, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED CANTEEN,"
Sealed the 30th June 1868, and dated the 22nd January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Goune at the
Office of the Commissioners of l'atent, with his l'etition, on the
22nd January 1868.
I, THOMAS COUNE, of Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, Captain
in the 17th Lancers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED CANTEEN," 10 be as follows (that is to say):-
This Invention consists in making canteens of any desired outline or
shape in two parts, shells or dishes which fit or close upon each other
at their rim or edges, the one is furnished with a metal loop hinged to its
inner edge and which is equal in length to the diameter of the shell, and
is for the purpose of clipping upon and holding in position, when the
canteen is closed, a liquor bottle which is made to lie within the shell;
when open, and in use, the portion of the shell with the metal loop serves
as a frying pan, the loop being turned back and forming the handle for
same. The other shell or part of the canteen may be used as a serving
[Price Gd.]

page_text: dish, and when the two shells are closed a strap may pass around them
and through loops formed upon their outer edges in a line with the
metal loop in the inside. The apparatus thus forms a liquor bottle
enclosed within a metal case capable of being employed as a frying pan
and dish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Goune in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GOUNE, of Pall Mall, in the County of Middlesex, Captain in the
Seventeenth Lancers, send greeting.
WHERFAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Goune, Her special licence that
1, the said Thomas Goune, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as 1, the said Thomas Goune, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time, and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED CANTEEN," upon the con-
dition, (amongst others) that 1, the said Thomas Gone, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters l'atent.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Thomas Goune, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
Bay):-

page_text: This Invention consists in making canteens of a portable description
of any desired outline or shape in two parts, shells or dishes which fit
or close upon each other at their rim or edges, the one is furnished with
a metal loop hinged to its inner edge, and which is equal or nearly equal
in length to the internal diameter of the shell, and is for the purpose
of clipping upon and holding in position, when the canteen is closed,
a liquor bottle which is made to lie within the shell; when open, and
in use, the portion of the shell with the metal loop serves as a frying
pan, the loop being turned back and forming the handle for the same.
The other shell or corresponding part of the canteen may be used as
a serving dish, and when the two shells are closed a strap may pass
around them and through loops formed upon their outer edges in a line
with the metal loop in the inside. The whole apparatus thus forms a
liquor bottle enclosed within a metal case capable of being employed as
a frying pan and dish.
I will now proceed to describe my Invention more fully in detail and
by aid of the Drawings hereunto attached.
Figures 1 and 2 represent in top and edge views, the one part shell
or dish of the canteen already described. I take a blank form cut by
preference out of sheet steel to any required outline, and submit it to
the action of suitable dies in a stamp or press, by which micans the blank
is dished, sunk, or shaped to the desired contour, the rim or edge (a)
being further strengthened or finished by being formed into a bead
as shown.
Figures 3 and 4 represent in plan of the interior and side elevation,
the second portion shell or dish which is formed in similar manner to
the dish Figures 1 and 2, and of such size that the part seen at Figures 1
and 2 may fit upon the counterpart, Figures 3 and 4, as a lid or
cover; (b) are metal loops which are rivetted or otherwise secured to
the shells, and which are used for the securing of a strap as herein-after
alluded to, the shells so produced. may subsequently be enamelled,
tinned, or galvanized. The counterpart, Figures 3 and 4, is furnished
with a metal loop (c) hinged as shewn at (d) to the inner side of the
second shell or counterpart, the metal loop (c) is equal or nearly so in
length to the internal diameter of the second shell, and is made to serve
for two purposes; firstly, as will be seen in Figure 3, as a frying pan
or cooking pot, in which case the metal loop (c) having been turned
outwards as here shewn, it becomes the handle for the same, and when

page_text: not in use the counterpart or shell receives a liquor bottle (e), and
the metal loop (c) being closed upon it clips or holds the bottle (e)
in position, and thus securely guards it from breakage.
Figure 5 shews the bottle (e) in position in the shell and the metal
loop (c) closed upon it.
Figures 6 and 7 are front and end. elevations of the bottle or drinking
flask (e) which is encased within a leather or other suitable covering and
is furnished with shoulder cords or straps as shewn at (), the one side
of the bottle (e) may be flattened or indented as at (g) to adapt it more
readily to the form of the wearer. The shell Figures 1 and 2 may
be employed as a serving dish, or may be used as the lid to the other;
part or cooking pan when the use of a lid is requisite..
Figure 8 shews the parts closed or fitted together, and for furtlier
security a strap (h) of any suitable length may pass around them, and
through the metal loops (b) formed for such purpose in a line with tlie
metal loop or handle (c). The attached portions of the canteen are
rivetted thereupon, the use of solder being entirely dispensed with. The
apparatus thus forms a liquor bottle enclosed within a metal case or
canteen, and capable of being employed as a frying pan or cooking pot
when required.
Having thus described the object and nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same may be carried into effect, I claim
without limiting myself to these precise details, the combination of a
liquor bottle and cooking utensils forming an improved portable canteen,
substantially in manner as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Goune, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.