The Portable Army Bread-Mixer 



It makes six thousand loaves an hour 



The bread-making outfit is mounted on a specially constructed motor-truck so that it can fol- 

 low the troops. It is operated by current from the truck engine or from a separate motor 



AGAIN has one of the necessities of 

 J-\ this great war proved itself the 

 mother of invention and produced a 

 machine to do work that previously had 

 only been done by hand or by expensive and 

 cumbersome installed machinery. This 

 time it is a portable army bread-mixing 

 machine capable of mixing the ingredients 

 into dough; molding the dough into any 

 shape desired and dividing it into pre- 

 determined weights which can be regulated 

 by the simple movement cf a hand-wheel. 



With a crew of five men, the machine will 

 make six thousand loaves of any size, 

 weight or 

 shape in one 

 hour. This is 

 the same 

 amountofwork 

 which now re- 

 quires the serv- 

 ices of 112 sol- 

 diers mixing 

 bread in the 

 field by hand 

 work. In ad- 

 d i tion, the 

 dough is ma- 

 chined in a 

 sanitary man- 

 ner, the fin- 



charged from the machine directly into 

 baking pans ready for the ovens. 



The mixer dumps the dough into troughs, 

 where it rises. It is then removed to the 

 machine proper where it is divided and 

 molded after being rolled and kneaded as it 

 passes through on chain-driven belt con- 

 veyors. 



The entire outfit is mounted on a 

 specially long wheelbase motor-truck so 

 that it can move forward and follow the 

 troops or change its position as required. 

 The bread-making machinery is carried 

 wholly within the motor-truck body. This 

 has low sides 

 to fold down as 

 platforms on 

 which the men 

 can stand, and 

 canvas side- 

 walls which are 

 extended to 

 form a tent 

 twenty-four 

 feet wide and 

 twenty-eight 

 feet long when 

 the outfit is set 

 up in the field 

 for operation. 

 Current is pro- 



lshed loaves 

 being d i s - 



The bread is mixed, kneaded, weighed, formed into 

 loaves and discharged into baking pans — all by machinery 



vided from the 

 truck engine. 



