Mystery tool—-Hope these attachments are connected—- Picked this up at a swap meet. No one seems to know what it is or what it was used for. I think it may have some parts missing?
My e-mail is: [email protected] if you have any ideas, or post here so everyone has the answer.
Gary
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Looks kind of like a ridge cutter, whats the diameter of the cutting head?
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Sure...it's a starter for a Model-T. LOL
Naw, it's the guts for a very large pepper grinder!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Are there any Mfg. names or Pat. dates on it ?
Explain the knurled pieces. Do they roll or expand outward?
Anyway it's not a Roid reamer ;-0
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Has a patent date of Aug 13 1907(01?). I've looked through the US Patent Office listings for this date and could not find anything similar. Above the patent date are the characters - **** ADY". The text is lost, but it appears to be text longer than the "Pat'nd Aug 13 1907" text.
The knurled rollers are: large central~15/32" and two small~ 5/16". When turned clockwise, the central roller follows the turn--clockwise. The two side rollers turn CCW.
See more attached pics.
Gary
I hope you didn't apy too much for this mystery tool. One Question: Why buy something if you didn't know what it was?
"Why buy something if you didn't know what it was?"Surely puzzling one's fellow knot-heads is worth a couple of bucks. ;-)
I'm puzzled
It was $3. couldn't resist a tool no none knew about. The thrill of the search(or maybe the agony of never knowing.........)
Gary
Looks like a jen-u-ine smoke grinder to me.
The Professional Termite
I thought it might be a "Vortex Eliminator" Those were used early on to recharge Flux Capacitors.--ha!
So far, no one has any real answers. the three knurled rollers are a little countersunk. Maybe some tool to knurl gunstocks?
Gary
I thought it might be a "Vortex Eliminator" Those were used early on to recharge Flux Capacitors.--ha!
My wife was dropping the car off for service one time, and on her way out the door I told her "Get them to check the flux capacitor, it's been acting funny lately." Worth ever second in the doghouse...
We have a great secretary at our work who has been told several times by two of us to make sure the capacitor is charged when she has the car tuned. She thinks we are (sort of) nuts, but the next time the car goes in, I bet she asks the mechanic about it.
Gary
Buster,
Sounds like the mechanic who swore he had a wife come into the shop with,"My husband says there's something wrong with my rear end. Could you check it out?"
Ray
It looks like an old automotive tool to me -- one that makes an exhaust pipe just a bit bigger on the end. That way you can join two pipes with just a pipe clamp.
Possible. The knurled rollers are somewhat countersunk from the frame, though; not sure it would expand anything it was put into.
Gary
My great grandpappy used to keep one of those under the back steps. He used it calibrate the Bilivester Relay on an old wood fired turboencabulator.
Unfortunately, one night he gave it one crank too many. The framastan pin let go and sent the old boy to meet his maker.
BE CAREFUL WITH THAT THING...
There are no framastan pins on this thing! I checked. The only pin is the Huffelgaster Pin, which holds the handle on. There is one kumold button that, when you press it, allows the shaft to elongate, but that's really not a pin. The knurled rollers are held in place by a countersunk scrimder(a small one).
Gary
Opps, sorry, you are right. the shape of the Kellenbenz Transfer Lever should have been a dead givaway...
> Bilivester Relay on an old wood fired turboencabulator.Really, I could have sworn that was a kannuter valve regulator calibrator but I wasn't one hunnurt percent positive so wasn't going to say anything.Bilivester Relay calibrater. I should have seen that right off : )
I guess major bits are missing, or why would the handle fold? The set-up of the knurled end is like the rotating pumps used in labs when a pipe is squeezed to pass a steady feed to the subject, so perhaps the function of that end was to move a ribbon along in a similar fashion.
That's a good guess. I thought it might be something like that - fabric, or maybe leather. I wasn't able to get a thin shop rag through the spaces between the rollers though. I think the missing parts would give more of a definition - there must be some sort of holder or clamping mechanism that fits on the rectangular piece that slides on the shaft. Could it have clamped a gunstock?
Gary
You may be on the right lines, are the outer rollers sprung? In order to straighten steel strip or the like it can be passed through a bending gizmo to emerge unblemished.
Rollers are in place solid. geared inside the case at the rear. I tried to get a regular shop rag through the knurling rollers but it bound it up. I don't think it was designed to have any thing go through them. Info is leaning towards being used with some sort of clamping rig that is missing.
Gary
I would say that it is the handle and business end of a meat grinder. It is missing the portion when you load meat in through the top, and it goes through those rollers, and out the side. Just a guess, but I would bet on it.
That would be really fine meat!. I tried to get a regular paper shop towel to go through the spaces, but it bound the thing up.
Gary
Between the crank on top and the "grinders" on the bottom, is there a place to hold it with your hand that spins independent of the crank?
In other words, can you hold it while you crank it wihtout hurting your hand?
Yes. the 'handle' is the part just south of the crank. The knurls at the end turn freely when you hold it like this.
Gary
I can not tell you it's name, but I can tell you what it was most likely used for and how it was used.
It is a device that was used to free up a jammed piece of machinery in a manufacturing facility during the early turn of the century.
This tool was used in a portable fashion. After using the tool, the sliding extention was made shorter and the pinned handle was folded against the shaft to make the tool easier to transport within the facility. It wasn't used very often and therefore placed within a cloth pouch for use whenever needed. You can tell that the tool wasn't used very often because of its very good condition, i. e., no rust, pits, or markings on the shaft.
In its normal use the tool was secured with a cover against the knurled sections of the shaft. The shaft was extended and pinned to the base of the unit that was next to the flywheel.
The four knurled rollers were secured in an eccentric position at the end of the shaft, which means that as the tool was turned with the handle one of the rollers would wedge against the flywheel and as one would continue to turn the flywheel would rotate and the jammed piece of machinery would be free to turn. Once this operation was completed the tool was rotated in the opposite direction to release the tool from the flywheel.
Maybe this was the workings for a large pepper grinder.
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