EFM - Electric Furnace Man Boilers

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EFM Electric Furnace Man Boiler & Furnace Manuals

EFM (Electric Furnace Man) in its first incarnation produced traditional coal and wood and oil fired heating equipment until about 1979; the EFM boiler company is still in business, in the U.S. and is cited just below, as the EFM Heating Equipment Division of the General Machine Corporation.

EFM boilers and furnaces also produced & sold under the name Boyertown Furnace Co.

• Contact: EFM Automatic Heat, EFM Sales Co., providing commercial & residential heating boilers & furnaces, 155 Route 61 South Schuylkill Haven, PA 17972-1000 Tel: 570-385-1892 Email: sales@efmheating.com Website: https://efmheating.com/
  
  Website excerpts:
  
  EFM Company History EFM (Electric Furnace Man) is one of the oldest names in heating in the United States. The company logo includes the phrase, “The finest in automatic heat”, which refers to the origins of the company as a manufacturer of coal stoker boilers.
  
  Coal fired heating around the turn of the century was still a dirty and time consuming proposition. A coal stoker invented at e·f·m made it possible to feed coal automatically to the fire and even to change the feed rate in response to a thermostat. This innovation was a great time saver and improved the comfort of millions of Americans. ... The EFM stoker boiler is still made today.
  
  The company's current product line includes: PK Ultra Boilers PK Boilers K Boilers VT Boilers VT 2000 Series Boilers EB4 Electric Boilers Warm Air Furnace EFM Regal Furnace Ergomax Heat Exchanger Coal Stoker Boiler DF520 Coal Stoker Furnace Mod AF Hand Fed Coal Boiler Heritage Gas Boiler
  
  
  EFM sells a wide variety of heating boilers and furnaces and related equipment for residential and small commercial applications.
• Contact: also see BOYERTOWN BOILERS & FURNACES - Hallmark, Regal, Solaia, Savio, Cox boilers and furnaces - Boyertown Furnace Co., PO Box 100, Boyertown PA 19512 USA
• Other EFM MANUALS available online from the company are at https://efmheating.com/index.php/efm-online-manuals
• EFM AF-Model STOKER FURNACE INSTALLATION & OPERATION MANUAL [PDF] Op. Cit. coal burning heating furnace.
• EFM BOILER STOKER INSTALLATION MANUAL [PDF] Model AP900 Op. Cit.
• EFM eb4 ELECTRIC BOILER MANUAL [PDF] retrieved 2021/05/08 original source: https://cdn.efmheating.com/EB-4.pdf
  
  Excerpt:
  gofopo has been designing and manufactudng boilers and furnaces since l922.We have provided dependable, efficient heat and hot water to thousands oI homeowners.
• EFM GEMACO BOILER MANUAL [PDF] (1976) Gemaco Boiler Models: VT635, VT 890, VT1140 Hot Water Heating Boilers - Installation Instructions
  
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• EFM (Boyertown) OIL FIRED FURNACE INSTALLATION & OPERATION MANUAL [PDF] (2005) Models HB-series, LB-series, DF-series, RE-series, retrieved 2021/05/08 original source: https://cdn.efmheating.com/efm-oil-fired-furnace-manual.pdf
• EFM WOOD/COAL BOILER INSTALLATION & OPERATION MANUAL [PDF] Model WCB,
  Excerpts:
  DANGER: This boiler is equipped with a fuse-able plug. It is located inside the boiler. It is not adjustable. In the event that boiler water temperature exceeds approximately 276° F, a dangerous condition, the plug will open and boiler water will fall into the firebox.
  
  Follow all operating instructions carefully to avoid a dangerous condition that would result in activation of the fuse-able plug.
  
  The WCB Hand Fired Boiler is designed for both wood and coal firing. It is provided with a cast iron shaker grate and a firebrick combustion chamber lining with an overhead baffle which provides a double pass for the flue gases for better heat extraction from the fuel being burned.
  
  This boiler is primarily intended to be an “Add-On” unit to an existing oil or gas fired forced hot water boiler.
  
  This boiler is not intended to be the sole source of heat except for the storage buildings, cabins, etc. where constant steady heat is not required.
  
  See instructions under heading “To Set Up Boiler” for proper application. This boiler is not to be used with an automatic stoker.

The EFM ElectricFurnaceMan company, founded in New York as the General Machine Company in 1907, was originally a producer of coal-stoker boilers. EFM was later described as a subsidiary of the General Macine Corporation, in Emmaus, PA.

A brief history of the EFM ElectricFurnaceMan company can be found online if you're willing to sign up for a "free" service - which we declined - Ed.

• Frey Donald, J. "A Study of the Performance of the Electric Furnace-man Combined Anthracite Stoker-boiler Unit." PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1955.

The company was described in advertisements and news articles, for example, in 1957 " ... the Electric Furnace Man Boiler stoker unit Is completely automatic ..." - Lebanon Daily News Newspaper Archives, Oct 25, 1957, p. 11

In 1974 the EFM company's CEO, Frederick Kalmbach ,Jr. was described:

Born and reared in New York City, Fred Kalmbach says that when the General Machine Company, Inc. expanded from New York to Emmaus in 1941 he was very happy to move here along with it.

From 1946 to 1953 he was president of the company and its subsidiary, Electric Furnace Man, Inc. In 1953 he was elected president of the Emmaus Foundry and Machine Co., Inc., a post he held until his retirement in 1968. - "The Probe", Allentown PA, October 1974.

Below: an obituary for Frederick Kalmbach Jr., an Electric Furnace-Man executive, appearing in the November 1981 edition of "The Probe" published by the Allentown PA Hospital.

Illustration below: a mention of the Electric Furnaceman heater in a 1958 directory of Ithaca new York Businesses.

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