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1791. A curling stone in some type of box or carrier. This I recognize
because there is a curling rink right down the street from me.
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1791 is a curling rock, but that's all I've got.
On 2009-12-03 23:01:16 -0500, "Ray Field" <[email protected]> said:
> Amazing how many people recognize this lesser known sports equipment.
Not really -- I expect many here are old enough to have seen the
Beatles' "HELP!"
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1789: Divider, used for marking equal widths across a board. The
device can split a width into anything from 2 to 10 equal pieces.
1790: A nutcracker, for really tough nuts? Ok, this may not have been
the generally intended use for the pictured hardware.
1791: Curling stone in a wooden box.
1792: The back of a bus or train seat, showing a holder for schedules.
1793: Ice fishing apparatus (a trap or tip up?) designed to trip when
a fish hits your line.
John
>1789: Divider, used for marking equal widths across a board. The
>device can split a width into anything from 2 to 10 equal pieces.
Or for making parallel lines on a cake? lol.
I would like to have one to use as a rake when motorcycle camping to get the
ground smooth under my tent!
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On Dec 4, 8:31=A0pm, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2009-12-03 23:01:16 -0500, "Ray Field" <[email protected]> said:
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> > Amazing how many people recognize this lesser known sports equipment.
>
> Not really -- I expect many here are old enough to have seen the
> Beatles' "HELP!"
But I was too young at the time to remember any curling.
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1790 is what we used to use for cutting asbestos shingles.
Regards,
Tom Watson
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
1791 is definitely a curling stone, although and an old one with a metal
goose-neck handle. Should have a leather washer between the handle base and
the stone, sometimes a coloured identifying collar (green for leads, yellow
for second, red for vice, blue for skip depending on the club).
Newer style has a one piece plastic handle.
Amazing how many people recognize this lesser known sports equipment.
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> 1789 - Scale divider.
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> 1790 - OLD Manual shear.
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> 1791 - Kind of looks like the top of a curling stone.
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> 1792 -
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> 1793 - Riot shield.
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> Steve W.
1789 Is clearly used to divide a line into from 2 to 10 equal segments.
1790 Guess: Leather creasing press.
1791 Curling Stone.
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1789 - Tool for marking "box joints"?
Bill
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> 1790 is what we used to use for cutting asbestos shingles.
Yes, text on it stated exactly that.
Rob
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>> 1794: Magazine-fed nail driver for tongue-and-groove flooring.
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http://www.cutting-mats.net/3112.html
These are Alvin's 6" spacing dividers, for drafting and map making.
They are almost identical to 1789.
I believe Nathaniel Ratner patented them about 1965. I can't verify it
by Google because their patent search is as flaky as their usenet search.
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>>> 1794: Magazine-fed nail driver for tongue-and-groove flooring.
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>> This answer is correct.
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>> Rob
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> http://www.cutting-mats.net/3112.html
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> These are Alvin's 6" spacing dividers, for drafting and map making. They
> are almost identical to 1789.
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> I believe Nathaniel Ratner patented them about 1965. I can't verify it
> by Google because their patent search is as flaky as their usenet search.
Here's the Ratner patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3271869.pdf
>> I believe Nathaniel Ratner patented them about 1965. I can't verify it
>> by Google because their patent search is as flaky as their usenet search.
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> Here's the Ratner patent:
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3271869.pdf
Thanks for finding that patent, I had looked for one but didn't have any
luck, it's not an exact match but should be close enough for use on the
answer page.
Rob
Ray Field wrote:
> 1791 is definitely a curling stone, although and an old one with a metal
> goose-neck handle. Should have a leather washer between the handle base and
> the stone, sometimes a coloured identifying collar (green for leads, yellow
> for second, red for vice, blue for skip depending on the club).
> Newer style has a one piece plastic handle.
> Amazing how many people recognize this lesser known sports equipment.
Only reason I know it is due to Utica NY having a curling club.
http://www.uticacurlingclub.org/
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>> Amazing how many people recognize this lesser known sports equipment.
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> Not really -- I expect many here are old enough to have seen the Beatles'
> "HELP!"
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"British, what can you expect ..."
"White Cliffs of Dover?"
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1791 might be a curling rock. Never met one in person. I only used to go to
the curling rink for hobby shows.
Steve R.
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> 1794) Another strange beastie.
Apparently submitted by a 7 inch tall visitor.
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1789) This is for equal spacing for holes for rivets used to join
metalwork when making aircraft. You place marks for the end two
rivet holes, and then stretch it so the desired number of rivet
holes is represented by the proper number of points, and drag it
through layout die to set where to drill the holes. (Actually a
tool which I would like to own. :-)
1790) Either a sheet metal shear, or a machine to punch a set number
of holes. Nice and rigid, in any case.
It looks as though it is also set up to punch individual holes
using the hook-shaped part on the left in the photo.
1791) A curling stone. Probably from Canada.
1792) Weird. Sort of like a frog for a sword scabbard.
Sort of like a protective edge for a hatchet or axe
blade.
Sort of like something to be gripped and the edge pounded into
something.
Not really sure. It is hard to tell which part is metal and
which is leather, given the coloration of both, though some
decorative and protective metal is obviousl
1793) This looks to me like a riot shield with what looks like an
electronic flash mounted to it -- which suggests perhaps a
camera on the other edge.
Not sure how many people would have seen these -- other than in
news footage.
1794) Another strange beastie.
If the lever were not so skinny, I would think that it is a
lever operated punch, but this does not look solid enough for
that, so perhaps it is something which is tripped to pop up a
warning flag on the end of the long whip like lever. Perhaps
tripped by a wire, or a shot when used on a target range, or
something similar.
Now to see what others have suggested.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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