Puritan Hot PlateH

[Clark Rader]

Have a 3 leg hot plate,marked No 21 Puritan, on the burner it reads Cleveland Foundry Co. Ceveland O U S A.
Clark

[Clark Rader]

Never used

[Clark Rader]

Who made this for Sears Roebuck ? Did Cleveland Foundry ?

[Clark Rader]

What is this ? and why ? tell me when. anything at all, clark

[C. B. Williams]

Clark: A lot of the valves of the pre-WW2 years came from Germany. A number of Griswold's had valves with the Swastika. C B

[Greg Stahl]

Very cool hot plate, Clark!!!

[Will Person]

Clark,  can't tell you anything about your hot plate.   But the last month Jenny and I have bought 3 stove/hotplates.   Our latest buying spree. ::)

Just wanted to tell you,  NICE hotplate.


Will P.

[C. B. Williams]

Clark: Did I answer your question?

[C. Perry Rapier]

Clark: A lot of the valves of the pre-WW2 years came from Germany. A number of Griswold's had valves with the Swastika. C B

Wow, that is interesting. Now I am going to be looking at every valve I see. Boy Clark, that is a very nice piece. Where did you find that at? It looks to be never used, thats for sure.

[Clark Rader]

C.B. thanks, thats what I thought, before the war. I did not think that Griswold made this one, Perry lets just say in Ohio at a swap meet in the hills, The guy said it came from an old hardware store in  Ohio 20 years ago.
clark

[C. Perry Rapier]

Perry lets just say in Ohio at a swap meet in the hills

Clark, its a nice piece. And your reply reminds me of mushroom hunting. They ask me where I find my mushrooms and I tell them that I found them in a woods.

[Steve_Stephens]

I wonder if your hot plate was or was not made for Sears.   Could other companies have used "PURITAN" other than Sears?
Steve

[C. B. Williams]

Let me clarify. I All I meant was that the valves were made in Germany pre WW2. I know that Griswold produced some hot plates with this valve having the swastika. Remember that these foundries probably did NOT have a machine shop which the valves would have to come from. Griswold and others who were making anything gas would probably have to buy their valves elsewhere, unless they had a machine shop.  Apparently Griswold had a number of sources for valves, I have seen only two with valves having the swastika. ( I would guess that is two out of maybe a 100, and I suppose time of manufacture would have a lot to do with it. It would have to be after the Nazi reign and before we got into the war)

[Jenny Schwartz]

Clark,  can't tell you anything about your hot plate.   But the last month Jenny and I have bought 3 stove/hotplates.   Our latest buying spree. ::)

Just wanted to tell you,  NICE hotplate.


Will P.

Yeah, it's been our latest addiction!  ;D


That is a really neat piece!!  

[moosejaw]

[size=14]Does anyone use these things?  What is the fuel source?[/size]

[Troy_Hockensmith]

Actually I have seen the swatika on iron before and I believe it predates WW2. Understand the symbol has only meant evil things when it relates to nazi germany. Prior to that it was a "good" symbol used by many cultures.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

[Troy_Hockensmith]

Here is another. Notice the dates are pre WW2

http://www.luckymojo.com/swastika.html

[Jenny Schwartz]

[size=14]Does anyone use these things?  What is the fuel source?[/size]

Will wants to hook our 3 burner up to a regulator and LP tank and take it camping to the Iola car show in July.  

[C. B. Williams]

This is a Mississippi fish fryer made from a brake drum, 3 legs welded on, and a water heater burner. This will boil a very big pot. Just hook up the propane and do some cooking. We use "quick connect air line connectors" for the gas line, then you can hook up the propane bottle to several devices.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Man oh man C.B., it looks like you could do some serious cookin on that thing. You have mentioned this before but now the picture puts it all in place. What is the diameter of it? When you mentioned it before I envisioned something about the size of a dinner plate in roundness. This looks the size of a dishpan.