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1 button and washer. 



1 hinge rod and washer. 



1 large body piece. 



1 small body piece. 



1 largo bellows piece. 



1 small bellows piece. 

 The body is made of russet collar leather 9 to 9 J ounces per square 

 foot, cut and stitched, as shown. The front and back, connected by 

 a leather hinge, rotate on a bronzed brass hinge rod 0.165 inch in 

 diameter, which is held in position by brass washers, riveted to the 

 ends. A swell is pressed in the right-hand end of the box, across 

 which a strap is stretched to form a recess for carrying a screw-driver. 

 The front is stamped with the letters "U. S." and is fastened to the 

 back at the top by a leather thumb piece, sewn to the back, which 

 fits over a bronzed brass button riveted to the front. Two waist-belt 

 loops are fastened to the back by stitching at the lower ends and No. 

 12 brass rivets at the upper. 



The cartridges are held in loops of 1-inch webbing sewed to a bel- 

 lows of No. 9 olive-drab duck. The bellows, by allowing the heads of 

 the cartridges to incline forward when the box is open, facilitates 

 their insertion and extraction. 



MEAT CAN. 



(Plate XV.) 



The parts of the meat can are — 

 1 body. 

 1 cover. 

 1 handle. 



The body, formed in a die, is made from soft decarbonized steel, 

 0.025 inch thick, thoroughly pickled, annealed, and capable of being 

 dra^vn, without fiirther annealing, into shape shown. After forming, 

 the body is tinned by immersion in a bath of melted tin. A hinge 

 for attaching the handle is riveted to the body by three VV-inch No. 

 10 tinned iron rivets. 



The cover is formed in a die from the same material used for the 

 body, and is also tinned. For convenience in removing the cover, a 

 D ring of 0.109-inch tinned iron wire is attached to it with a tin clip 

 and VV-inch rivet 0.134 inch in diameter. 



The handle is formed from soft decarbonized steel 0.12-inch thick, 

 then tinned and secured to the hinge by pin 0.134 inch in diameter. 

 When the meat can is assembled, the handle folds over the cover and 

 the end of it engages the rim of the body, holding the cover firmly in 

 place. 



