What is it? Game 121

ITS FOR PROCESSING COTTON

A linen (sheets, etc…) folding machine.

Steampunk Roomba. Wind it up watch it sweep.

my first thought was a car mat cleaner, but since it might have been created before automobiles, i’m going to go with the bear skin rug cleaner. thumps the dirt right out. thump thump thump…

Sound effects machine.

Lotto/bingo number roller thingy

clothes wringer

A rock tumbler…

It looks like a hand-cranking huge music box.

-Scott

It’s a theatrical wind/storm machine. Looks like it does wind (upper roller and canvas sheet), rain (lower roller, probably a rotating rain stick), and thunder (the wooden slats).

I think this is an old tyme radio show special effects maker that reproduced weather effects…. or maybe not

a conveyor belt of some kind.

a music box!

I Agree its a foley noise maker, for radio shows. The 6 slats have a tension adjuster at the bottom, that pulls them into the top roller..when the roller is turned, it creates two simultaneos sounds…like ” ti-ta-tat”..like a horse gallop, trot, canter, walk, depending on the speed the crank is turned. The canvas thrown over roller could creat a dampened sound for a horse walking on softer surfaces.

It’s possible

It’s for winding knitting yarn into balls.

It’s a two-eyed, slack-jawed, stationary wooden people eater!

It’s a musical instrument. You turn the crank, which hits the different length boards, creating different tones.

It’s a wind-xylo bingo-loom. It simultaneously plays woodwind tones and percussion taps and tumbles bingo balls while weaving tapestries. It’s a great time and labor saving device and makes the work and play much more enjoyable by providing musical accompaniment.

it’s a rice huller

For carding wool.

it’s a trouser press.

It’s a clothes dryer

Braille printing machine.

It’s an automatic spanker, early model. Now get over here and give Me the prize, minion.

Actually it is a felt making machine

It’s a medieval slat-matrix printer, developed in the 1600′s by Huge Profit (HP)company. While the printer itself was cheap, the ink was very expensive as it had to come from freshly-squeezed squid

its a book stand which rotates so that you can read more than one book at once on one desk without having to close them.

It is a Mouse Organ.

Developed by French polymath Theirie deGilliume, specially bred mice trained to produce specific sqeaking tones were fed from the wire hopper on to the rotating paddle wheel where they produce their specific notes as they are slapped by the wooden slats. The canvas flap protects the musician’s clothing from bits of mouse fur and spatters of blood.

It’s a machine used for breaking up stalks of flax to make linen.

its used to sew words to things

This is the only existing remnant of Edgar C. Rinklebottom’s experimental steam-powered jet ski. This aft section is the paddle wheel and part of the steam powertrain. The craft, designed by Mr. Rinklebottom over a bar bet with Robert Fulton, was designed over three months in 1810 to propel one person on a heavily modified sleigh across the Hudson River. The paddle wheel seen here was all that remained after an accident that resulted in the death of Mr. Rinklebottom, two bystanders waiting on a dock, and a small family of ducks.

Legend has it that there was a riverboat race that day with Fulton, and Mr. Rinklebottom’s boiler exploded while he was revving the steam engine at the starting line. In actuality, the mishap occurred because, while Edgar invested several thousand dollars developing the engine, he did not invest in “that newfangled piece of tin-scrap that Fulton chap tried to sell me as a safety valve.”

Please note the wooden slats on the bottom right of the assembly. These slats were designed make a clatter of noise while the steam-paddleboat-sled was roaring along, similar to baseball cards in bicycle spokes. Claims that he also created an early prototype of the “Woo-woo whistle tip” muffler are unfounded, however.

Shrike FTW!?