What the Heck Is This...Contraption

Pancho · Post by **Pancho** » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 8:38 pm

Barrel added for more surface area?.

grumpy · Post by **grumpy** » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 8:41 pm

Where did you get that photo, whats the date on that, that would help but I don't see any air in ports.

tjnamtiw · Post by **tjnamtiw** » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 10:04 pm

catalytic converter!

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freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 10:22 pm

Something to distribute more heat. filled with something that would absorb heat----real early version of one of them thar in pipe heatolaters but different

warminmn · Post by **warminmn** » Thu. Aug. 28, 2014 11:40 pm

Kind of like those double barrel stoves they sell kits for. its to waste less heat. Unless of course it has a door on the side we cant see then its for cooking/heating up things. Nice old picture.

stovepipemike · Post by **stovepipemike** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 8:27 am

How would you like to be the kid assigned to one of those empty seats flanking that stove on a brisk December day? That would give new meaning to" radiant heat" when your corduroy pants started to smoke and your erasers began to smell. Great picture, Thanks for posting. Mike

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 10:14 am

stovepipemike wrote:How would you like to be the kid assigned to one of those empty seats flanking that stove on a brisk December day? That would give new meaning to" radiant heat" when your corduroy pants started to smoke and your erasers began to smell. Great picture, Thanks for posting. Mike

Looking at the condition of that building, those might actually be the best seats when those December winds come whistling through!

And they may need those winds. If that is an extension for the area above the firepot, looking at the rumpled top edge of that can, where it fits up into the lid, I can't help but think that stove pipe wasn't the only path for stove exhaust.

Paul

hophead · Post by **hophead** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 10:20 am

Looks like a piece of rug underneath it!!!!!!!!

Pancho · Post by **Pancho** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 10:44 am

grumpy wrote:Where did you get that photo, whats the date on that, that would help but I don't see any air in ports.

I stumbled over it on another forum (a random old pics thread).

Doing a GOOGLE snoop on the image I found a caption "African American school in Henderson, KY 1916".

titleist1 · Post by **titleist1** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 11:42 am

Sunny Boy wrote: I can't help but think that stove pipe wasn't the only path for stove exhaust.

The teacher could never understand why she and the students were always struggling to stay awake 2 hours after school started when the stove was fired up!

KingCoal · Post by **KingCoal** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 11:49 am

yeah, terrible to think about what health issues they may have all had in later life that could have been avoided with some simple humanity.

i doubt staying awake was ever a problem though considering the amount of infiltration you CAN see in the pic ( thus the desire for the heat exchanger ) and the fact that the students are all bare foot.

Sunny Boy · Post by **Sunny Boy** » Fri. Aug. 29, 2014 12:05 pm

Considering it looks like it might be taken during warmer weather, if the kids had shoes,they very likely would have not been allowed to wear them when the weather warmed up. Shoes were considered expensive and that was not an uncommon practice back then.

A friend and his wife both grew up in the Baden-Baden area of Germany. Said their parents used to take their shoes away as soon as the ground thawed out. He said their feet were still cold many mornings walking to school. To keep warm they'd stand in piles of fresh cow manure until their feet warmed up then they'd dash for the next warm pile as they made their way to school.

I mentioned that it must have smelled bad when he got to school. He said no, they just smelled like all the other kids !

Paul

What the Heck Is This...Contraption

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