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. 



ASBESTOS COVER 



FROM 

 X ENGINt 

 M EXHAUST 

 ni^PIPE 



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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