Cruban Empire Burner
| Cruban company was in New York City and made replacement parts for Stanley steam automobiles. There is a long story somewhere about the company and the three principals whose last names contributed to the name Cruban. This burner with two pilot lights was obtained from Fran Guldenbrein, Vallejo, California and donated to Dave Nergaard, Littleton, Massachusetts. This is a typical design of a cast iron slotted blue flame vaporizer burner. |  |
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| The reason for this burner design is because it was compact, thus fitting under a vertical fire tube boiler, and because it did not need any electricity to start, operate, or control the fire. | ||
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An engine driven fuel pump pumped fuel into a tube in the fire that boiler (vaporized) the petroleum fuel into a gas that was injected through a small nozzle into the single mixing tube to the back of the mixing plenum. This jet of vaporized fuel drew in air mixing it with the fuel vapor and pressurizing it enough to pump it through the slots in the cast iron grate. It was important that the fuel/air mixture burn above the grate and ignite reliably every time the steam pressure sensor turned on the fuel supply. The pilot light kept a small fire burning continuously to keep things warmed up and to ignite the main fire. | |
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