Antique burner help

[WatchCollector56]

This burner was recently acquired from an estate. I was wondering what it is? and its value?
Thank you!

 

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[gazmuth]

Probably wrong, but it sort of looks like a burner they used to bend and shape pyrex glass in the old labs to make the various bent glass tubing and pyrex shapes vessels. Have seen some in the lab where I work, they look similar. Would have had a piece of tygon tubing (surgical rubber) attached to the bottom nozzle, gas piped in, probably propane, and the turner wore asbestos gloves to protect their hands.

However, it looks like one end heats and the other end had nozzles that blew out air or something, (and it looks to be a glass nozzle) and I haven't seen a burner like that, but the burner parts look like things we still have, although no longer use.

 

[kyleeskastles]

Any noticeable marking on the underside of that base, maybe a made in usa or something even?

 

[m240042]

it is a fairly old piece probably made by airco or a company called smith. It looks to be a auto high low pressure heating torch. That's used in glass bending bending steel or even soldering or brazing application and was most likely purposely built and could be one of a kind. The reason one would need an auto high low switch is because you don't want full blast when you are not using the thing so just a small pilot flame is being used when a lever is activated the flame goes to full bast. Now you just have to figure out what kind of goof ball would keep it around for 80 some years other than it scraps out for brass. Good luck. PS I've been hunting off and on for 40 some years

 

[Tony in SC]

Looks like a chemist/lab stove. There would be a stand above to hold a beaker? Tony

 

[littleneckhalfshell]

from the looks of it, I think it may be related to the Neon sign industry. If you look at some of the older pictures of people making neon glass tubes, there is a whole bunch of different type of burners. Today they seem to just use two opposing flames, but in older pictures there are heaters with the many holes like this heater has, and other heaters that have multiple straight tubes like this also has. Not positive it has to do with Neon, but I would definitely think it has something to do with glass. Laboratory glass apparatus also has to be heated and blown, so it could be related to that also

 

[m240042]

I Am wrong, it is a 3 flame burner for neon ...no high low feature. also one of the end torches are missing.