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1401 - Appears to be a glass plant.

1402 fence stretchers

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1404: I am guessing that it is used to move hay stacks. The piece
behind it is a swather. It would be mounted on a sickle bar mower to
put the hay in a row when it was cut. Jesse

today only one (really) silly guess from germany

1404 i don´t know wherefore this tool is used, but i would like to have the
bottle of wine you can open with it.

greetings
chris

1399: Some sort of concrete-finishing tool
1400: Perhaps part of a larger machine; the center looks kind of like
bearing races. Although it would have to completely
disassemble for that to work.

1401: Some sort of cooling tower
1402: Clothespins
1403: Looks like an elk. Maybe just a deer.
1404: Transporter for hay bales

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Yes, it's a glass container plant, though I'm not certain if the upper
structure is a baghouse or cooling tower.


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Hay loft jib crane?

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This looks like a mighty tough set!

1399 - Possibly this is used to bind together papers with a wire or
plastic comb sort of binding to make impromptu books. The angle of the
handle looks rather odd for that use, though; you shouldn't need much
leverage in that direction, and keeping the work a bit away from the
body would not be a help.

1400 - Tool to manipulate vee belts? If the cones are free to rotate,
this would tend to lead credence to this wild guess.

1401 - It's a CIA station intended to grapple for UFOs that fly by.

1402 - I suspect these are rope tensioners, similar to (but larger than)
those commonly used to hold tent flies in position.

1403 - Possibly a manipulator for logs or slabs, either in a sawmill or
when cutting trees in the field. I'm assuming it's more closely related
to the two-man saw than the mounted deer heads.

1404 - Derrick for use when butchering (possibly for scalding hogs?).
The rake like thing in the background is rather curious looking, too,
assuming it's not another part of the same device.

Now to read other guesses...

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Yes, it's a glass container plant, though I'm not certain if the upper
structure is a baghouse or cooling tower.


Rob

I don't believe it's the baghouse, more likely a cooling tower for hot
gasses to escape - the structure is open at the top and runs the entire
length of the roofline.

Unless I'm mistaken this is the Fostoria Glass plant in Fostoria Ohio.
Although the plant is derelict now.

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I'm sorry if this shows up twice but I didn't see it post the first
time.

1404: I am guessing that it is used to move hay stacks. The piece
behind it is a swather. It would be mounted on a sickle bar mower to
put the hay in a row when it was cut. Jesse

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O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

1399) Interesting. It looks as though it is intended to cut
two parallel grooves -- perhaps on either side of a
round-bottomed groove for decorative woodwork. The round shaft
appears to be spring-loaded so it would act as a guide, but
would retract with pressure allowing the rows of knife blades on
either side to come into contact with the workpiece.

1400) O.K. I have a question. Are the brass (or possibly bronze)
pieces free to rotate on the axis defined by the handles?

If so -- I might consider it to be a tool to use to guide a belt
or rope back onto a pulley.

If not -- I have no idea.

1401) I have no idea what the building is (or was) for, but it would
appear to require bringing in a lot of sunlight for some
purpose. Perhaps to trap heat?

1402) These seem to mostly be pulley blocks with load hooks, or more
primitive versions with the rope sliding through a smoothly
finished hole angled to make the rope slide smoothly.

1403) The long-handled object, not the really long saw I presume.

At a guess, it is for twisting a tree which is being cut down
to better control where it will land.

1404) Looks like something designed to screw into a hay bale to lift
it -- and perhaps to allow it to be swung over to be lowered
into some form of carrier or transport device.

Now to see what others have guessed.

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O.K. Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

1399) Interesting. It looks as though it is intended to cut
two parallel grooves -- perhaps on either side of a
round-bottomed groove for decorative woodwork. The round shaft
appears to be spring-loaded so it would act as a guide, but
would retract with pressure allowing the rows of knife blades on
either side to come into contact with the workpiece.

I was thinking it might some type of jig for marking interlocking dove-tail
joints (except without the angled dove tails - don't know what these would
be called). However, you seem to be right that the end of the fingers seem
to be a sharp edge making it look like knives or markers of some type.

The way the spring seem to work seems to suggest the tool is pushed into or
against something. However, with the handle being out the side, you
wouldn't be able to push vary hard, so that would indicate the push is not
to create a cut, but maybe just to hold the tool against the object???

The spring loaded bar also can't travel very far because it will hit the
handle if it moves too much. This makes me think the bar is used only to
serve as an alignment aid of some type. But nothing at all comes to mind
as to what the tool would be working with.


1400) O.K. I have a question. Are the brass (or possibly bronze)
pieces free to rotate on the axis defined by the handles?

If so -- I might consider it to be a tool to use to guide a belt
or rope back onto a pulley.

If not -- I have no idea.

Someone else suggested the belt idea. That sounds reasonable because belts
were far more popular in the past than they are now so the tool and
associated crafts might have fallen out of common use. But yet, it doesn't
feel quite right.

One thought I had was that it looked like knife sharpener. Maybe with the
addition of some missing stones held between the cones, that could be what
it is? Just a wild guess that's probably way off base.

Another idea is that it looks like some type of forming tool. Maybe for
bending some sheet metal of some type over an edge. Could it have been
used to do something like close a can or container of some type?

It's interesting that the angle between the cones is close to 90, but
slightly greater than 90 deg. That seems to rule out it's use with forming
a square corner or being used to press on the sides of a square corner.
But it might have been used to press on the edge of a square corner for
some purpose. But at the same time, the fact that the cones can spread out
leaving a flat shaft between them seems to indicate that the tool was not
used to apply pressure at the intersection of the cones but was instead
intended to apply pressure on the faces of the cones.

hum.....

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Hey Rob,

1402 I believe is a collection of various devices to hold or clamp
rope

1400) O.K. I have a question. Are the brass (or possibly bronze)
pieces free to rotate on the axis defined by the handles?


I can't say for sure but I think they are free to rotate, I'll check
the
next time I see this tool. It says "patent applied for" on it, so I
did a
Google patent search on quite a few different descriptions but didn't
have
any luck.


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Rob

1400 looks like a device I'd like to roll up and down the
back
of my neck sometimes, bet that would feel good...;)
phil

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1400) O.K. I have a question. Are the brass (or
possibly bronze)
pieces free to rotate on the axis defined by the
handles?


I can't say for sure but I think they are free to rotate,
I'll check
the
next time I see this tool. It says "patent applied for"
on it, so I
did a
Google patent search on quite a few different descriptions
but didn't
have
any luck.

R.H. wrote:
1400) O.K. I have a question. Are the brass (or possibly bronze)
pieces free to rotate on the axis defined by the handles?


I can't say for sure but I think they are free to rotate, I'll check
the
next time I see this tool. It says "patent applied for" on it, so I
did a
Google patent search on quite a few different descriptions but didn't
have
any luck.


The answer page for this week can be seen he

http://answers248.blogspot.com/




Rob


1400 I wonder if it was involved in some type of caulking. If the
material didn't stick to the rollers, this tool could press caulking
into a joint while leaving a uniform bead over the joint.

1401 I used to walk past a similar old building at a glass plant in
Pawtucket RI in the 60s and 70s. I wonder if it was to cool float glass
uniformly. Here's a patent addressing the problem:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=I8Y...BAJ&dq=4402722

I sent this reply earlier but it never did show up on my server, hopefully
this won't be a double post for some.


... I wonder if it was to cool float glass
uniformly.


Could be but I'm not sure if a container plant would make float glass. I've
sent a few emails asking about this building and will let everyone know if I
get any replies.


Rob