What is it? Game 40

By Alex in What Is It on Oct 11, 2007 at 2:15 am

Yay! It’s time for our weekly collaboration with What is it? Blog. If you can guess correctly this strange contraption, there’s a Free Neatorama T-shirt for you!

Contest rule: place your guess in the comment section, one guess per comment but you can guess as many time as you’d like. Post no URL, please – let others play.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog (I promise, it’s NOT a torture device!)

Oh, and Steve Walker who won the last What is it? game – you’ve got one week to contact me and claim the prize (a Free Live! Pro Webcam by Creative) or we’ll just toss the prize back in for future game.

Update 10/12/97 – here’s the answer:

Leather creasing machine, used for continuous creasing of straps up to 1-3/4″ wide.

Congratulations to craig clayton #8 who got it right first.


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  1. Jim Trudgen
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 2:33 am

    It’s a device used to remove kinks and bends from wire rope.

  3. Adrian
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:37 am

    I do believe jim trudgen is right

  4. Garry
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 4:02 am

    a divice used to bend metal wire into springs

  5. salsa
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 4:38 am

    CLEARLY it’s a… free Neatorama t-shirt maker!

  6. Jayde
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 6:02 am

    I think it’s an old fashioned clothes-wringer-dryer thingy.

  7. Samantha
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 6:07 am

    Pasta maker

  8. craig clayton
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 6:21 am

    It is a roller for leather belts, it finishes the edges smooth with a pattern.

  9. quinnn
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 6:46 am

    It ‘s a tin roof press.

  10. Adamn
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 6:54 am

    its a tube roller, use to roll curves in circular tubing.
    the different size spaces are for different size tubing.

  11. John Mathews
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    It was used in leather shops to put a groove into the leather for looks or sewing reasons.

  12. Steve James
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:11 am

    This is a fabric pleater, used for making pleats in starched fabric, possibly for a kilt or dress.

  13. Christian Stüben
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:31 am

    Hmmm, maybee i am wrong, but i would say it is an incomplete squeezer. There must be missing an outer tube, with two inlets at the outer ends, and an outlet in the middle. Used to squeeze out the juice from fruit, or some type of “grindmill” to make corned beef.
    greetings from germany
    Chris

  14. Rohin
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:33 am

    It’s OBVIOUSLY a radiator-matic. You pour liquid metal in the top and a radiator is pushed out the other side, ready for use in your house.

    Don’t know how we coped before this.

  15. Blaise Pascal
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:38 am

    My first thought was “So *that’s* how they make corrogated metal panels for roofs!” but quinnn already said that.

  16. biff diggerence
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:38 am

    It is a small rolling mill.

    In that the second image does not give a full, frontal view, the shapes it is capable of rolling cannot be discerned.

    It would have to be a soft, ductile material, in any case.

    A Metallurgist.

  17. Moebius
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:45 am

    I agree with Samantha. It’s a pasta maker.

  18. Damien Ryan
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Looks like the spit roast that Jamie Oliver had on his show recently.

  19. Ali S.
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:23 am

    The olde version of a paper shredder? ;)

  20. algonkin
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:28 am

    It’s that thing I stuck my fingers in as a kid…how’d that find its way back above ground?

  21. neko
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:28 am

    a victorian-era pasta maker?

  22. Moglet
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:32 am

    A printer for fabric or paper?

  23. Randall
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    Its a Gigalloni roller. True Italien pasta afficanadoes witll recognize this wonderous device that is used to create the fabulous gourmet dish: ‘Giganto Gluttonatta,’ which is reputed to be so deliciopus that the diner is unable to stop eating, and the portion is so enourmous that after eating the victum dies of acute intestinal blockage almost immediately.

    Its the italien version of blowfish sushi.

  25. Sallie
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:13 am

    It’s a press to make galvanized sheet metal

  26. Sean
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:16 am

    It’s a noodle making machine.

  27. lewis
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:21 am

    its a device used for bending sheet metal into car radiator panels.

  28. lewis
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    a metal tube/pipe bender, used fwhen making roller coasters.

  29. Scott Carney
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:38 am

    It’s a pasta maker, but can double as a very effective torture device.

  31. Meg
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:05 am

    I’ll go with laundry wringer.

  32. Jewbacchus
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:17 am

    A blade/tool sharpener. Different curves and widths for different shapes tools and blades.

  33. Marina
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    It looks like something you use to wring something dry. I don’t know what…

  34. Michael
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    It certainly does look like a metal tubing/rod roller.

  35. Ravakhan
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    It is a device for turning smooth sheet metal into corrugated sheet metal.

  36. brad
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Sugar cane juicer

  37. Jared
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    noodle maker

  38. Samantha
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    This is an 18th century cloth ruffler, to make uniform pleats or ruffles in clothing. You remove an iron stick from the lower roller, heat it in the fire, replace it, and it makes the whole unit hot. You turn the wooden handle crank to run your cloth or clothing piece through, and the result is beautiful, trendy ruffles for everyone! We bought a historic house when I was a kid and a number of antiquities original to the house came with it; among them, a ruffler like this.

  39. AMR
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    With 9 & 15 above, my guess is it’s for making corrugated metal…but the lines are narrower towards the centre and the centre ‘wheel’ is the highest/deepest so (maybe) this is for corner/90 degree sheets.

    (But workers secretely made grubby pasta on it after hours.)

  40. Susan
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    It’s a laundry wringer!

  41. Steve Walker
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    I take back my other answers and offer these insights-
    Each side has 7 matching different sizes, got that?
    The left side has a hump in the middle – the right,
    is flat. Do they work together, or are they 2 versions of a similar thing.
    It can’t be metal going thru it because of the wooden rollers on the bottom – unless it’s really thin.
    Am I on the right track????

  42. lenny
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    looks like a wire drawing machine.
    for making and stretching copper wire
    but for all i know it could be bs grinder.

  43. kuujjuarapik
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 7:24 pm

    Cookie press/roller for cookies

  44. chuk
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    It’s a candy making machine.

  45. Justin
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    IT’S A STREETLIGHT!

  46. ric
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    it’s a clothes wringer.

  47. AngieRrr
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Perhaps it is used to preform gutter or stovepipe elbows. Hmmm…

  48. Kris Bordessa
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:08 pm

    It is a corrugated tin maker.

  49. Tracy
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    I’m going with No. 36 Brad…it’s a sugar cane juicer.

  50. vorxaw
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 10:20 pm

    Its a sausage maker, many different sizes at once

  51. Bennettar
    Oct 11th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

    Definitely a pasta maker.

  52. Venessa
    Oct 12th, 2007 at 6:03 am

    noodle cutter

  53. Ross Voorhees
    Oct 12th, 2007 at 6:57 am

    It’s an automatic loom.

  54. Andrea
    Oct 12th, 2007 at 7:08 am

    Its a laundry wringer, it was on little mermaid when the crab got pushed through it lol.

  55. nerfherder
    Oct 12th, 2007 at 9:19 am

    Putting in a sheet of anything is out; I’d have to go with finisher/breaker for leather straps. Softens them up so they can be bent; right side leave it flat, left side puts in a crease. Maybe useful for horse tack?

  56. Jason
    Oct 12th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    Its a hand operated pasta cutter. Judgiong by the width its for linguini

  57. dave
    Oct 14th, 2007 at 3:22 am

    it’s a bird.

  58. Sammy
    Oct 16th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    It’s a fabric striper!
    duh!!

    Yeah, The tin roof thing sounded right


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