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 Cooking Your Meals While You Drive

Using the exhaust heat of your engine to prepare luncheon while running at twenty -five miles an hour

By Albert Marplc

��THE manifold stove is new. It fits beneath the hood over the ex- haust manifold of the automobile engine and may be used for baking pota- toes, heating canned goods, and water. The device costs only about a dollar to manufacture, uses heat that would other- wise be wasted and is a valuable time saver. It was invented by J. I. Wernette, of Glendale, California. This stove is about ten inches square at the top and is fourteen inches deep. A hole cut in its side permits it to fit snugly over the mani- fold, and a wire netting is so arranged as to keep the pans, canned goods.

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RUNNING BOARD

���Diagram showing construction of above and disposition of the food

���Showing stove under hood with all the ne- cessary connections to main exhaust pipe. This stove is ingenious and gives excellent results

��This is the footboard stove. The illustra- tion shows the food being placed in the cooker and the valve that controls the heat

��etc., from touching the pipe. For bak- ing potatoes, a baking pan, sufficiently large to fit tightly within the stove, has been provided. When warming up canned goods the cans are placed directly upon the wire netting. An especially prepared can permits the motorist to make coffee or boil water for tea.

Another type of stove, heated by the exhaust, is located on the runningboard. This new stove is a large steel box, around the inside of which is a heating space, about one inch wide at the two sides, ends and the bot- tom. To provide the space a sheet -iron box is soldered in place within the steel box. the iron box being one inch smaller all around than the steel stove. The pipe which carries the exhaust gases to and through the stove is attached to the main exhaust pipe. A hole is made in the pipe and the end of the cooker pipe clamped over it. There is a valve between the exhaust pipe and the cooker so that the latter can be disconnected or used at full capacity. The gases escape eventually through an auxiliary exhaust pipe. Re- movable wire shelves are placed within the stove whenever it is desired to cook potatoes or apples. So efficient is this cookei that a large fish, a rabbit or quail may be cooked to a turn while the car is traveling a distance of fifty miles. Potatoes or apples may be baked in a distance of from fifteen to twenty miles. This box or stove is two feet long, ten inches wide and twelve inches deep. An asbestos pad arranged within the lid retains the heat.

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