Comments on: What is it? Game 40

By: Sammy

Sammy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:13:14 +0000

It’s a fabric striper!
duh!!

Yeah, The tin roof thing sounded right

By: dave

dave — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:22:11 +0000

it’s a bird.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:24:17 +0000

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

By: nerfherder

nerfherder — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:19:18 +0000

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?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:08:56 +0000

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

By: Ross Voorhees

Ross Voorhees — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:57:41 +0000

It’s an automatic loom.

By: Venessa

Venessa — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:03:31 +0000

noodle cutter

By: Bennettar

Bennettar — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:00:52 +0000

Definitely a pasta maker.

By: vorxaw

vorxaw — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:20:13 +0000

Its a sausage maker, many different sizes at once

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:19:40 +0000

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

By: Kris Bordessa

Kris Bordessa — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:08:25 +0000

It is a corrugated tin maker.

By: AngieRrr

AngieRrr — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:03:26 +0000

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

By: ric

ric — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:58:51 +0000

it’s a clothes wringer.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:14:01 +0000

IT’S A STREETLIGHT!

By: chuk

chuk — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:44:55 +0000

It’s a candy making machine.

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:24:20 +0000

Cookie press/roller for cookies

By: lenny

lenny — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:15:39 +0000

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

By: Steve Walker

Steve Walker — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:35:36 +0000

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????

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:28:07 +0000

It’s a laundry wringer!

By: AMR

AMR — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:08:09 +0000

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.)

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:29:35 +0000

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.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:55:17 +0000

noodle maker

By: brad

brad — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:21:11 +0000

Sugar cane juicer

By: Ravakhan

Ravakhan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:00:29 +0000

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

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:15:18 +0000

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

By: Marina

Marina — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:50:12 +0000

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

By: Jewbacchus

Jewbacchus — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:17:45 +0000

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

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:05:12 +0000

I’ll go with laundry wringer.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:04:55 +0000

Banana peeler

By: Scott Carney

Scott Carney — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:38:13 +0000

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

By: lewis

lewis — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:23:25 +0000

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

By: lewis

lewis — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:21:47 +0000

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

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:16:24 +0000

It’s a noodle making machine.

By: Sallie

Sallie — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:13:31 +0000

It’s a press to make galvanized sheet metal

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:05:45 +0000

A noodle-maker.

By: Randall

Randall — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:34:29 +0000

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.

By: Moglet

Moglet — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:32:07 +0000

A printer for fabric or paper?

By: neko

neko — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:28:59 +0000

a victorian-era pasta maker?

By: algonkin

algonkin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:28:32 +0000

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

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:23:34 +0000

The olde version of a paper shredder?

By: Damien Ryan

Damien Ryan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:54:28 +0000

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

By: Moebius

Moebius — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:45:09 +0000

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

By: biff diggerence

biff diggerence — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:38:25 +0000

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.

By: Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:38:03 +0000

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

By: Rohin

Rohin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:33:36 +0000

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.

By: Christian Stüben

Christian Stüben — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:31:12 +0000

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

By: Steve James

Steve James — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:11:31 +0000

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

By: John Mathews

John Mathews — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:02:19 +0000

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

By: Adamn

Adamn — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:54:20 +0000

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

By: quinnn

quinnn — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:46:59 +0000

It ‘s a tin roof press.