oxy-acetylene torch

Three oxy-acetylene torches; heating torches.

Details

Category:
Hand and Machine Tools
Object Number:
Y1970.30
type:
oxy-acetylene torch
credit:
Gift of Mr A Bebbington

Parts

Torch by Chalumeau Fooche, made 1903.

Torch

Torch by Chalumeau Fooche, made 1903.

Object Number:
Y1970.30.1
type:
torch
Heating torch - 'Universal blowpipe'. Marketed by British Oxygen. Patented 1910.

torch

Heating torch - 'Universal blowpipe'. Marketed by British Oxygen. Patented 1910.

Object Number:
Y1970.30.2
type:
torch
cutting torch (no.482), probably dates to 1905.

cutting torch (no.482)

cutting torch (no.482), probably dates to 1905.

Has two screwvalves for oxygen control; one for flame size and the other for cutting oxygen.

Object Number:
Y1970.30.3
type:
cutting torch

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