Sleeping Bag In a Can

[Bishop]

Dated 1952, this M1949 sleeping bag is vacuumed sealed in a can, unopened for 65 years. Free local pickup. I also have another identical one that I will list shortly.

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Just when you think you've seen it all, Ebay throws up something fascinatingly weird.
I don't want or need it, hell I can't afford it but I really want to see inside it

Does anybody know anything about why these were produced ?

 

[dwardo]

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I don't want or need it, hell I can't afford it but I really want to see inside it

Agreed!

Schrodinger nightmare. Would have to buy two and open one, no three and open two, arggh!
Luckily I don't have the money.

 

[Lithril]

Watching with interest. That's going to be some seriously compressed filler in that bag.

 

[bigjackbrass]

How wonderful would it be to roll back the lid and find half a dozen tiny sleeping bags in there, side by side sardine-like?

 

[Wayne]

Would be a shame to open after such a long time. Love the concept though.

 

[kard133]

From what I've read online, this may be have been issued to USAF pilots as part of a survival kit, this is the only reference I can find,
"This bag is listed in the 50s edition of the USAF Survival Training manual (AFM 64-4, 1954 ed.) but was phased out for the compressed bag used throughout the 60s into the 90s. Some vendors call them U-2 survival kit bags though they were the standard bag in all CW kits until replaced by the vacuum packed orange bags."

Source: http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/for...1-vacume-packed-m-1949-mountain-sleeping-bag/

 

[MikeLA]

Who fancies crushing it back into the tin, bad enough doing that with stuff sacks

 

[nicksteele1990]

Here's a video of one of these being opened:

Edit: looking at the specks on the lid, looks like it's the actual tin from the first post that he opened!

 

[PDA1]

not that much loft. I was reminded of a trip through Copenhagen airport many years ago. The duty free shop had king size eider down duvets, vacum packed into a box not mch bigger than a grapefruit. There was a warning on the side not to open until you got home. Needless to say, somebody could not wait and opened it in the departure lounge. It grew, and grew and grew to about 2 metresx2 metres, and about 15 cms thick. Absoultely no chance of it going back into the packaging, or even into a typical carry on bag. I last saw the lady draping/wrapping it around her shoulders as she went to board. A very good demo of the compressibility of down. I see that Wiggies offer vacum packs for their splendid sleep systems, but at $175 a pop its a bit pricey.

 

[Hammock_man]

Must be my sense of humour but when he got in, in the road...... I was waiting for the truck to come and run him over as he found the zip sticks after all this time !!!!!