What Is It?

[Unimatic1140]

From an email I recevied today and I have no idea:

I'm trying to figure out what the round appliance is in this picture...it's the one on the far right? Is it some kind of washing machine? It looks a bit shallow to do wash, but.......

I appreciate any help you can give me..........Thanks so much!!!!

Jackie Clauson
[email protected]

 

[chachp]

Candy Cotton Machine??

LOL. That's what I thought it was when I first saw it.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Oil Burner!!!

I think its the demo version of an ABC oil burner as identified on the advert behind it, presumably the burner would sit under a water heater/boiler/washer/cooker etc...

Also mentions "Mistomatic" i think, could it be a humidifier as well??

Mike

 

[DADoES]

Appears to be a hood on a pole hanging over the dish, like a light. And it's electric, with an inline switch on the cord.

 

[gyrafoam]

Looks like the Guts of a cotton candy machine.

 

[nurdlinger]

Looks like the Guts of a cotton candy machine.

Cotton-candy makers I recall were substantially deeper than the device shown. Doesn't mean this isn't one, just not one I remember.

 

[alr2903]

I will go outside the box .....

Live better electrically, something to do with agriculture maybe, a egg incubator for chickens, or some kind of dairy processing implement for milk or something? any clues like is this store setting rural, or city? The legs are so spindly whatever it does something to must not be very heavy. hmmmm alr2903

 

[kevinpreston8]

I would say....

that is an oil burning heater.

My mom and dad had one in their first apartment, and my mom was afraid to use it.

She said it looked like a radar dish, you put some oil in it, and it would burn it and radiate heat.

She hated it, but her description seems to match it. And the legs are obviously only stout enough to support the item itself.

 

[sudsmaster]

Got me!

All I know is that I don't want one.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

The tombstone looking sign behind it

Does mention "ABC Oil Burners" presents the, and then has
a pict of the "gizmatic" below the bowl of the one on
dispaly. Sure would be a strange type of heating device.
Perhaps it's just for demo purposes to show what is in a
a furnace or water heater?

 

[frigilux]

Boy, that is a mysterious-looking thing. My first thought was incubator, with the lamp hanging over it and all; but why would an incubator need a motor (or whatever that thing is right below the dish)?

Even moreso, I'm curious as to who JOHN FLUCK is...and if he took a lot of guff for his last name. (Look at the upper left corner of the photo.)

 

[alr2903]

my money is on kevinpreston on 2nd thought

Maybe a oil burner to convert a coal fired furnace to heating oil?

 

[nurdlinger]

Maybe a oil burner to convert a coal fired furnace to heatin

I saw a few of these in Detroit growing up. They were different, most had a horizontal tube running through the opening in the furnace where the coal door had been. There was an electric motor associated with it, it looked sorta like what we know today as a leaf blower. I always guessed that the motor powered a fan of some sort, and that air blasted down the tube with atomized fuel oil to make the fire.

 

[peterh770]

I think it is a demo model for the Maytag wringers to the left, with the transmission without a case so people can see exactly how it works.

The ABC burner is within the 2-sided standup display directly behind this unit.