Unfortunately the stove did not live up to expectations and very few survive today in original working condition. Many people have said the stove looks like it was designed by a committee with all wanting to get their idea adopted in the design! This may not be true but, considering the principle of paraffin stove design had been successfully employed by many manufacturers who copied the Lindqvist 'Primus' design of 1890, the Supremoil stove is very unconventional.
The stove is presurised using the round wooden handle on the left, there are two preheating dishes, one on the right just below the control knob and a large one in the centre below the burner. Alcohol is poured into the dishes and lit, when the stove has been sufficiently preheated the fibre control wheel is turned.
Paraffin rises from the tank up the centre of the stove, the cast top of the burner shaped like a cog wheel heats the fuel which then passes down the curved tube to the control. A fine spray of vapourised paraffin is sent across the gap between the nipple and brass tube on the right of the picture.
Air is drawn in through the gap and mixes with the fuel which passes into the base of the burner and rises up through a matrix of corrugated steel rings. At the top of the burner a strong blue/yellow flame rises in a similar way to a gas burner. By turning the control knob to increase the fuel flow the flame can be made to rise up to an impressive 12", (30cm) above the burner!
The stove is tricky to preheat with the two separate cups and the horizontal spray from the jet is very prone to disturbance from draughts.