What is it? Game 40

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.


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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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????
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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?
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