2299. 4-1/4" long:
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2300. The top part is about 5" long:
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The upper piece can pivot and has a weight under it to keep it horizontal:
2301. Approximately 14" long:
2302. 27" tall:
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2303. About 9" long:
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2304. 4" long, sent in by a visitor who is looking to identify this device that he found in his grandfather's shed twenty years ago:
Answers:
2299. A grate bar for a stove, it allows ashes to fall through and air to circulate, patent number 730,772:
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2300. The most popular guess for this one is that it's a counting tray, possibly for use by a pharmacist, who could then pivot the tray to pour the contents into an envelope or other container. The second most popular suggestion is that it's for dispensing a fixed weight of a product, which would be loaded onto the pan and when a certain weight was reached, the pan would tilt and pour it into a container of some type.
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2301. A tool for removing the cables from a battery, patent number 1,602,685:
2302. A light from a TV news stage:
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2303. An egg cracker and separator, it can be seen in use here:
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2304. A Morgan Lee wallpaper trimmer (scroll down at the link):
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2303: Ez Cracker egg cracker. As seen on TV!
ReplyDelete2301 - valve spring compressor
ReplyDelete2303 - egg cracker/separator?
2302. Twenty seven feet tall? More like twenty seven inches. It's a theater light, lens-end down. Bulb goes in the cylindrical bulge at upper left. Hung by square bracket at lower left.
ReplyDelete2303. Cracks open and separates egg. Lower jaw has nonslip pads and splits apart to release contents into separator below.
2300. for weighing a standard ammount of a commodity out at the point of sale. You pour into the top until the weight exceed the counter weight and the product is poured into a bag.
ReplyDelete2304: for putting a grove into sheet metal a fixed width from the edge. Possibly in preparation for rolling the edge, or crimping two sheets together.
2301 - tool to remove the battery cable from the post.
ReplyDelete2299: For some kind of shredder or kneeder? Or noodle cutter?
ReplyDelete2304 looks like a leather or paper cutter I have seen somewhere before. If cutting leather for belts you can adjust to have various widths.
ReplyDelete2302 is a stage lamp
2301 a value compressor
>2303: Ez Cracker egg cracker.
ReplyDelete>2303 - egg cracker/separator?
>2303. Cracks open and separates egg.
Correct
>2302. Twenty seven feet tall? More like twenty seven inches.
Fixed, thanks!
>2300. for weighing a standard amount of a commodity
Not sure about this one
>2304: for putting a grove into sheet metal
Nope
>2301 - tool to remove the battery cable from the post.
Correct
>2299: For some kind of shredder or kneeder? Or noodle cutter?
Nope. It's probably a salesman's sample so the real product would be larger.
>2304 looks like a leather or paper cutter I have seen somewhere before.
Paper cutter is right but it's for a particular use.
>2302 is a stage lamp
Yes
2304 - Wallpaper trimmer... Wallpaper used to come in rolls with a white edge that had to be trimmed off. My dad had one that used a razor blade instead of wheels.
ReplyDelete>2304 - Wallpaper trimmer...
ReplyDeleteThat's it!
2300 - perhaps a solar dish to light slow burning matches aboard a sailing ship
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