What is this old-school looking cutting device?
Posted Jan 18, 2019, 8:40 AM UTC
1010
Maybe stamps out foil labels? With incremental serial numbers?
2
It isn't a cutter. It looks like an extrusion machine of some sort. It turns thicker wire or perhaps flat strips into thinner wire/flat strips. The set of 7 little round silver things near the bottom are wheels that squeeze the wire as it is drawn through them, then it's spooled up on those metal spools. By passing it through a number of times you can turn a metal rod as big around as a pencil and a few feet long into a spool of wire as big around as a toothpick and yards long.
The thing that looks like a knife is actually a drive arm for the upper spool from the looks of it. The dial would be used to set the space between the extrusion wheels, as you have to be rather precise to prevent jamming the machine or breaking the wire.
2
This thing was found in a shed while moving. There's a knife or blade that must move when the machine is in operation. There seems to be buttons on the front, maybe for setting cutting speed / width?
Edit: My first thought was that it is a machine for cutting ham, but I don't see why it would need three "blades", and the circular rollers / blades don't seem sharp enough to be able to cut anything. So my guess is it's the sword that does the cutting.
1
I looks like a hot foil press.
1
[removed]
1
The three circles on the left seem to be tube bender
Here’s a picture of one: https://www.toolots.com/millart-bench-model-compact-metal-bender-with-7-dies-sturdy-and-versatile.html?
It’s designed like that to keep the shape of the tube, with out deforming it
1
It looks like an old school wire processing system or tube processing.
The 7 tiny rollers should be adjustable in width. They are used to straighten the wire/tube out before cutting it. We have a wire processing unit that has that exact setup.
Without a name though, impossible to tell beyond that. It should have a nameplate with serial number on it somewhere unless it was removed.
1
Are there any markings, or plates with details on them? Any stuff around it that could belong to it?
Not that I could see, and I don't have access to the machine anymore.
The box to the left of the machine must be some kind of transformer?
How big is it? If that is a euro plug to the left then it must be a really small device? But the wall panels behind make it look about 50 cm wide?