Posted 10 years ago
Brillo
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This machine is in two pieces. The roller system is one section and the bottom section is basically a tub. The rollers can be removed from the crank-adjustment mechanisms. It has a drain hole so water must have been used in whatever process the machine was used for. The electric box and switch are not original. Someone thought it might have been used to run cowhides through and squeegee off the excess cow feet through the rollers. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks for your help.
At first glance I thought it was a mangle for wringing wash, but it has no upper spring.
Doesn't appear wide enough to work cow hides.
It has a large range of adjustment on the top roller, so it must have been made to accommodate various thicknesses of material.
Already saw a machine like this, but manual with a winch!
It was to drain water from your washed linen or clothes.
In old time, washing bed linen or long shirts was done twice a year, so you had mountains of cloth to drain!
looks like some kind of factory piece they would use to run plastic or rubber or even light steel through, the rollers to thin it down as well as cool it down with the water troff below ...just a guess .......heading out the door ...lol.
I agree with Roy , I have used a old wringers for washing on farm and yes my Grandmother washed outside so no clothes were cleaned all winter a stock pile was made for winter . BUT this heavy metal would shred clothes . I think it is a press for either a newspaper or something else used in a factory and tub below was to cool whatever went through it like sheet metal - but not household item ?
Uuhh... Didn't see it has metal roller, thought it was wood!
So, not for cloth...
I do not know what it is but I want one. I think it was a hard rolling press of some sort. It appears the upper and lower rollers were once linked via chain. The upper roller has very little allowable spring movement but can be adjusted via the threaded rod on each side. Typically, washing machines had more free movement of the upper/lower roller. Is the outer surface on the lower roller beginning to delaminate? Maybe the upper roller, at one time, had the same outer surface as the lower roller.
IMHO: If a wide flat chain was run from from the upper idle pulley down to the lower gear, with both sides of the chain on the left side of the upper roller's gear, it should permit the upper roller and gear to raise and lower the length of the threaded rod and remain driven in sink with the lower gear.
Etching press?
What is IMHO Virgina :-) I don't know what that is .
"IMHO" means In My Humble Opinion.
I agree Manikin, I'm no expert by any means, but something to do with newspaper was the first thing that came to mind, or an etching press. Very interesting piece no matter what it is though!
If it helps, the bottom roller appears to be made of wood, while the top roller is steel. It may also have been used to apply a liquid to the material passing through it, like paper sizing or glue.
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Thanks for the comments and the opportunity to pick your brains! The mytery more or less continues but that's the fun of these kind of things. I will update7655613262this site if I find out more about it. Thanks again to all.
could this be for making paper?
or making felt out of flock?
this could be sugar cane juicer.