Pressure Atomizing Oil Burner Equipment and Systems – Oil Pumps
Tuthill single stage rotary gear pump, carrying the corporate name of Prenco, Toronto Canada, similar to the Tuthill Model EN, see ID# 272, with modern, stylish name plate and logo in silver against grass green background, a marker of the rapidly expanding market for automatic oil heating equipment in Canada following W.W.II, Fuelstat, Prenco, Tuthill Pump Corp. Toronto, Circa 1948.
Technical Significance:
From the vantage point of the early 21st century, the evolution of oil fired, automatic home heating equipment would be seen as generally advancing in four broad waves, each of which would take place over a considerable period of time, each producing many variations of the genre:
1. Vaporizing, non-motorized and non-electrified, technology [see Group 11.01 artifacts, no. 11.01-1]
2. Elemental, motorized, platform mounted technology with peripheral piping and valving components [see Group 12.01, artifact no 12.01-1, and pump assembly 12.06-1]
3. Compacted motorized technology with inherent, peripheral component parts engineered into the pump assembly [see pump assembly Group 12.06, artifact, and 12.06-2]
4. Functionally integrated, motorized technology, beyond being compacted, a number of functions would be smoothly integrated into a single pump assembly, including piping and valving [see Group 12.01, artifact 12.01-2 and pump assembly 12.06-2]
This pump assembly stands as an example of 4th wave of fuel oil pump assemblies, compact and functionally integrated in light weight die cast body.
Industrial Significance:
Tuthill would be widely acknowledged in the industry as an early innovator in the field, providing many of the engineering ideas, principles, products and breakthroughs which the industry would build on – see for example ID#271, 272, 273.
With modern, stylish name plate and logo in silver against grass green background, with smoothly rounded long radius corners it would signal a new era in industrial design, with a new role for the industrial designer, creating products with eye appeal, distancing the oil heat industry from the products of its industrial past [see for example ID#268]