Antique Holland Stove Company Cast Iron Salesman Sample Miniature Furnace
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Antique holland Stove Company Cast Iron Salesman Sample Miniature Furnace toy stove this is from the was our grandparents estate our Grandpa was the salesman till the 60's he ran the Chicago area sales for the company for Holland furnace company and I remember this being on the shelf as a kid and seeing the cool heart shaped design door!!!!COOL!!!!this is all original and complete Free Shipping and we ship worldwidehere some inf...o from American history site I found This model was made ca 1920 by the Holland Furnace Company of Holland, Michigan. The model is made of aluminum and was used by the Warm Air Heating Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois. Similar models were used by salesmen for marketing purposes. The furnace was advertised by highlighting its high quality castings and efficiency . The furnace was intended to be enclosed within an outer casing which circulated air to be heated and then carried via convection to rooms above the furnace room. The air to be heated passed over the hot surface of the entire furnace, including the radiator which was intended to extract heat efficiently from the exhaust gases. The radiator can be seen at the top of the image. Combustion gases were directed upwards into the dome-shaped chamber at the top. A damper in the flue at the rear of the radiator could be opened while the furnace was being started in order to provide a direct draft. When the damper was closed, the hot gas was caused to flow around the entire circumference of the radiator. This provided a large area of heated metal for the air to be heated to pass over. The small door at theThe model is highly detailed and clearly illustrates the important elements of the furnace’s design and function including all of the access doors, radiator and flue system, various dampers, and the mechanism for shaking the ashes into the ash-pit. Just as was the case in the actual furnace, the model has separate sections for the ash pit, combustion chamber, fire pot and radiator.company closed in the 60's
