Help me identify this tool

[Thelgemo]

Please advise what the attachment pictures are used for for this vintage tool

 

[larry_g]

I'm assuming those two ridges in the cast side have a hole near the edge. You poke a dowel in and then spin the handle to shave the dowel into a tapered end. Or it is to shave a round something and use the shavings for?

just a guess

lg
no neat sig line

 

[Farmer J.]

Peeling carrots??

 

[RTM]

Looking at how this is bench mounted, I wonder if it isn’t some type of juicer, where the juice dribbles out above the mounting screw, tho that makes little sense in the real world. I can’t imagine pushing something like a pencil or carrot up into that.

HSB Triumph, is that what the sticker says?

How sharp are the blades? Sharp enough to sharpen pencils? Is the cutting edge inside? That gives credence to sharpening / grating.

Do those two grooves in the first pic feed into the cutting area? How would shavings get out if used for pencils?

So many questions, so few good ones.

 

[Calaes_93]

Vintage bench or safe legs?

I found these and am not sure exactly what they are. The only writing i can make out is oTc usa

 

[fl18guy]

They are the bottom legs to a vintage hub puller. Blueppont made them , snap on and otc as well. Should be 3 in total

 

[Kwikasfaki]

#5 They are legs for a puller, usually a hub puller, hooks go on a disc with a bolt in the centre, to push on the axle/shaft. Eyes on the leg go over a stud on the hub and retained with a nut.

 

[Debcrow]

Please advise what the attachment pictures are used for for this vintage tool

Cannot make out the label very well... but looks like HSB which would be the Hibbard Spencer Bartlett Hardware company. There are some grooves on the crank side, possibly held a chute and front cover in place? Some sort of sheller or shredder? Try looking at old HSB catalogs online.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I'm assuming those two ridges in the cast side have a hole near the edge. You poke a dowel in and then spin the handle to shave the dowel into a tapered end. Or it is to shave a round something and use the shavings for?

just a guess

lg
no neat sig line

Assuming it is for dowels, wouldn't it turn the dowel into a half round?

 

[RTM]

I am not sure your HSB and the Hibbsrd are the same logo, yours looks different. I searched for HSB Triumph, and got lots of motorcycle and car stuff. Still refining that one.

 

[RTM]

Assuming it is for dowels, wouldn't it turn the dowel into a half round?

I have an old pencil sharpener that requires the human to rotate the pencil.

https://www.officemuseum.com/Sharpener Gallery 1900-1909/1904_Little_Shaver_OM.jpg

But, that lead (bad pun and poor spelling intended) me to a pencil sharpener museum, but I didn't see a triumph.


https://www.officemuseum.com/pencil_sharpeners.htm


But look for this one, it seems promising, but They suggest German variants
U.S. Automatic Pencil Sharpener

 

[Old Man Roger]

I have an old pencil sharpener that requires the human to rotate the pencil.

https://www.officemuseum.com/Sharpener Gallery 1900-1909/1904_Little_Shaver_OM.jpg

But, that lead (bad pun and poor spelling intended) me to a pencil sharpener museum, but I dint see a triumph.


https://www.officemuseum.com/pencil_sharpeners.htm


But look for this one, it seems promising, but They suggest German variants
U.S. Automatic Pencil Sharpener

I see what you're saying now. It just didn't look like the flutes where you would put the pencil are at much of an angle, if any.
I can't think of a good reason for a tool to make small half round dowels either though..lol

Hibbard Spencer Bartlett did make a ton of food processing/meat grinders though. It doesn't really look food oriented though, rust, paint chipping, no visible way of cleaning it well.

 

[Old Man Roger]

After googling some old pencil sharpeners, I think you got this RTM.

 

[JRC3]

Google reverse image search that image. https://www.google.com/search?q=ALE...ei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=ajvFXsffJZnqtAXjxJC4AQ

Bean slicer.

Video demonstration.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Google reverse image search that image. https://www.google.com/search?q=ALE...ei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=ajvFXsffJZnqtAXjxJC4AQ

Bean slicer.

Video demonstration.

Holy ****! lol It doesn't look very sanitary

 

[JRC3]

Holy ****! lol It doesn't look very sanitary

Just soak in vinegar or a bleach solution. Also not sure how sanitary anything was in the 1920-30s. Most were still using outhouses and collecting rainwater in cisterns.

I wonder how common bleach was back then...Or what was commonly used for such things. I think Lysol was starting then.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Just soak in vinegar or a bleach solution. Also not sure how sanitary anything was in the 1920-30s. Most were still using outhouses and collecting rainwater in cisterns.

I wonder how common bleach was back then...Or what was commonly used for such things. I think Lysol was starting then.

Most of the vintage meat grinders look like cast aluminum. Or some other material that doesn't rust.

 

[JRC3]

Most of the vintage meat grinders look like cast aluminum. Or some other material that doesn't rust.

Pretty sure plenty of iron meat grinders were used in the same era. I'm sure there were different price points back then too.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1920s-alexander-werk-remscheid-meat-1778021678

 

[4xdog]

...Bean slicer...

Bingo!

Like most things, it makes perfect sense once one understands what it is.

 

[Debcrow]

Does not look sanitary??
We forget how things were before all of the modern convivences plus laws that require "sanitary" food, living, etc.

I remember the one room ranch house we moved into at $6 rent a month in the middle of the desert in New Mexico. Electricity was the only utility we had. Cistern pump in the yard off of a 100 + year old tin roof. Outhouse through the gate and turn right (check for black widows before sitting down). Bath on Sunday in tin tub behind a hung sheet for privacy with water heated on kerosene stove (yes we all smelled like kerosene), being the youngest I got the worst used water at the end.

Cleaned out the cistern once a year to rake out leaf's, branches, dead birds, etc. (I am sure most of the bird poop was still at the bottom). You ALWAYS boiled the water before using it for drinking or cooking. We think of this as unsanitary today but still think of wilderness natural spring fed pools as being pure and healthy (with the same branches, dead birds, poop, etc.) Its a mind set.

You did the correct things to keep healthy, boiling, well cooked, well cleaned, etc.
If you think this was a long time ago, it was, 1955.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Pretty sure plenty of iron meat grinders were used in the same era. I'm sure there were different price points back then too.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1920s-alexander-werk-remscheid-meat-1778021678

I can just imagine some of the **** that ended up in the food from those.Enamel for one, look at the chips..lol

 

[Old Man Roger]

Does not look sanitary??
We forget how things were before all of the modern convivences plus laws that require "sanitary" food, living, etc.

I remember the one room ranch house we moved into at $6 rent a month in the middle of the desert in New Mexico. Electricity was the only utility we had. Cistern pump in the yard off of a 100 + year old tin roof. Outhouse through the gate and turn right (check for black widows before sitting down). Bath on Sunday in tin tub behind a hung sheet for privacy with water heated on kerosene stove (yes we all smelled like kerosene), being the youngest I got the worst used water at the end.

Cleaned out the cistern once a year to rake out leaf's, branches, dead birds, etc. (I am sure most of the bird poop was still at the bottom). You ALWAYS boiled the water before using it for drinking or cooking. We think of this as unsanitary today but still think of wilderness natural spring fed pools as being pure and healthy (with the same branches, dead birds, poop, etc.) Its a mind set.

You did the correct things to keep healthy, boiling, well cooked, well cleaned, etc.
If you think this was a long time ago, it was, 1955.

Hell I had a friend that lived like that in the 80's lol, but I see your point.

 

[JRC3]

I can just imagine some of the **** that ended up in the food from those.Enamel for one, look at the chips..lol

Consider what ends up in food today. https://www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defects.html

Back then things were done in small batches so there was more control over such things. And I doubt the occasional paint chip per thousand pounds of meat was a huge problem. I know lead is bad for you but I doubt there was much in that ground meat. Most of that chipped paint probably happened during cleaning and handling over a long period.

 

[Old Man Roger]

I'm not clicking that link, cause I don't want to know what it says..lol

 

[steaks&anvils]

I'm not clicking that link, cause I don't want to know what it says..lol

Might be time to re-read Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"?

 

[RTM]

Google reverse image search that image.

Bean slicer.

Nice work, I frequently forget about reverse image. That high angle showing the two inlets takes out some of my guesses.

Never did like beans sliced that way.

 

[3baygarage]

Way to go JRC3!

 

[larry_g]

Ah, the French cut bean. Years back, probably still today, when were growing green beans for the cannery the reject beans that were to big for cut green beans were sent to the french cut line and sold at a premium over the regular beans but the farmer got paid nothing for the rejects.

lg
no neat sig line