What is this?

[Patrick123]

Any one know what this part was from? Looks like something out of an old factoru maybe? Sayd LMS Co on it I think.

 

[t1r2u3s4t]

Door spring?

 

[Mohawk Dave]

Looks like a cord reel. Isn't that the cord rolled up on the outer sides of it? and a plug on the end with electrical tape.

 

[Patrick123]

Not a spring some kind of pulley mechanism.

Not a cord real thats just what I have on it. I have it holding a light.

Has a break and a gaurd on it. Thinking some kind of pulley to do with some old machinery in an old factory maybe?

 

[Provincial]

Are you sure that the marking isn't IMS? The I. M. Singer company made sewing machines, and many used round rubber belts (like big o-rings) for drive belts.

 

[Rezeppa]

It looks like a drill press or like stated earlier pulley block. look at old drill press pictures and look how they were made it was a three piece cast iron tool. It consisted of motor, pulley, and drill looks like one part or like stated earlier same design could have been used on a sewing machine. The three positions would be speed adjustment.

 

[jjjrmx5]

Are you sure that the marking isn't IMS? The I. M. Singer company made sewing machines, and many used round rubber belts (like big o-rings) for drive belts.

I wanna agree with this.

Old sewing factories used an overhead shaft drive system (off a huge floor mounted motor on the end of that shaft with a big-*** belt that ran to each or all overhead shafts in an area) that used drop down belts to each machine that could be turned on or off with a spring loaded idler pulley at each station. Some times the belt adjustment was overhead. Some times at or near the machine. Early woodworking shops and wood mills used the same system.

Used to see it all the time here in the midwest in factories.

Could also have been part of a block and tackle lifting system depeding upon where it came from.

Decipher the makrings or stampings and you have a good chance of fining it's mfgr and thus use.

 

[Patrick123]

It is for sure LMS CO. The L is very clear and is on two sides. Hmm

 

[Patrick123]

I think it is a pulley/clutch and brake assembly from an LMS industrial sewing machine or some other machine.