What is it? Set 422

[Rob H.]

I need some help with the second and third items this week:

[Bill]

#2443 Offers a fancy way of chalkin' a billiard cue stick?

[Bill]

Looking at the subsequent pic, maybe it trims yer seegar??

[Kevin(Bluey)]

2447 . bread baking tin /mold used to make/bake the Tank loaf as we call it here in OZ.

[Dave__67]

If it's *not* a cigar cutter, I really don't want to know what it's for.

Dave

[Rob H.]

Cigar cutter is correct

[DoN. Nichols]

2443) Quite old, based on the decorative design.

It almost looks like an early version of the drill press adaptors for electric hand drills, except that it looks too old for that.

Perhaps for holding a brace and bit perpendicular, except that it would require conscious pressing of the chuck area against the 'U' on the top.

But almost any use which I can think of does not explain why it comes in near one end of the egg-shaped cavity instead of in the middle where it is deeper (unless it is for drilling holes in the ends of an elliptical plaque for screws to affix it to something) -- perhaps a license for a taxi or a plaque showing that the owners of the house have contributed the proper donation to the fire department (sort of a private enterprise in those days, not a tax-supported activity.)

Even a semi automated mortar and pestle holder/guide would want to hit somewhere other than at the end as this one does.

2444) Output former for an early pasta maker? But why so thick for the holes to pass through? 2445) For repetitive cutting of something to a preset length (set by the J-shaped object with the knurled thumbscrew to lock it in position.

At a guess, the thing which is cut is something like a small angle iron (and thin metal -- perhaps like a tin can).

Hmm ... another look suggests that it is for cutting through the insulation on electrical wire, forming a cut through the insulation so it can be bent a bit and then pulled off.

2446) A pure guess, but something to recycle the oil from salads. 2447) Each wire bail on an end pulls over the other side and snaps there to hold that end closed.

Fairly old, since it is tin plated steel not plastic as it would be today.

No clue what it holds. If it were a little newer, perhaps a stack of 45 RPM recordings, but too old for that.

Perhaps for transporting plates as used by a caterer?

2448) Too short to be a walking stick. Too long for many other things, including a seal for wax seals on documents. Unless it also had ceremonial significance.

Now to post and check what others have suggested.

Enjoy, DoN.

[DanG]

Rob, I think 2447 was a cake pan for a dense coffee cake kind of thing my mother used to dearly love.

___________________________________

Keep the whole world singing . . . Dan G

[willshak]

Looks like it.

[Bill]

#2447 - Looks like it is designed to rotate--like a "rock tumbler".

[Sonny]

2446 - tooth pick holder?

2448 - Guess - Looks like some kind of tamp or compactor on one end. The other end would be used to wedge, manipulate or align whatever is to be tamped or compacted. Some kind of chinking tool. The flat end would be used to wedge the packing into a crevice and the flat end is hammered, driving the packing deeper into the crevice.

Sonny

[Rob H.]

I agree that it's some type of tamper, hard to say exactly for what.

I'm only 100% sure about three of them this week, but think we are close on some of the others, just lacking in specifics. My answers for this set can be seen here:

[Rob H.]

I think this is a good description of its basic use, I did some patent searching on it but no luck so far.

[Snag]

# 2448 is almost certainly a tamping device used with sand molds . Pretty long , most I've seen are around a foot long or so .