WTH is this tool????

[fflintstone]

Does anyone know what this is? The letters on the castings are obscured. I bought it for dirt cheap and was going to hang it in my office for a conversation piece, but I want to know what it does.

 

[ZRX61]

Is it covered in ink?

 

[fflintstone]

Is it covered in ink?

No ink, the bottom (or top?) is machined. it looks like it could go around a 4” x 4” post, but to what end? The “clamps” have a limited amount of travel. I haven’t given it much thought but nothing is coming to me.

 

[chadnum1]

looks like a vice to glue together picture frames

 

[stonewellmark]

I think CHADNUM1 is right, looks like a picture frame tool.

 

[fflintstone]

I think CHADNUM1 is right, looks like a picture frame tool.

Square picture frames less than 4" square???? I can’t envision it.

 

[scott37300]

Might be a jig to trim 4x4's when setting fence posts. Set the posts and then set the clamp and use a circular saw to trim the posts to correct hieght.

 

[1969]

Is it a whachamacallit for a giggling pin ?

 

[Jbullfrog]

It looks like a type set frame from an old printing press.

 

[fflintstone]

Might be a jig to trim 4x4's when setting fence posts. Set the posts and then set the clamp and use a circular saw to trim the posts to correct hieght.

that could work.

 

[fflintstone]

It looks like a type set frame from an old printing press.

I do know an old printer, I could show him, if it was used for that he would know.

 

[blue dog]

flugelbinder extractor.

 

[fflintstone]

Anyone else have a hypothesis?

 

[toxicz28]

Square picture frames less than 4" square???? I can’t envision it.

Wallet size picture frames!

 

[Cliff McNeill]

I have seen it somewhere before but I cant remember where. I though it was on a woodworking site but I may be wrong.

 

[zenon52]

Hi there, this is my first post and I think I can shed some light on it, The clamp was use when drilling or otherwise cutting holes in the 4x4 ceramic tile.

 

[Amitygravel]

Welcome zenon52. So was this vise part of a special drill press then ?

 

[robertgreen79]

I think its a rotary girder...

 

[fflintstone]

Well so far we have some interesting hypothesis and a few smart **** answers, it will be Sunday before I can ask the printer guy.

 

[scott37300]

Hi there, this is my first post and I think I can shed some light on it, The clamp was use when drilling or otherwise cutting holes in the 4x4 ceramic tile.

I don't think you would use a metal clamp like this on ceramic tiles? Especially since it has long handles which would be lots of clamping pressure.

 

[zenon52]

MY wife's uncle was in the ceramic business and he had one like that with his tile equipment. I will be interested in knowing also as he has passed on and I have that clamp.

 

[fflintstone]

Hi there, this is my first post and I think I can shed some light on it, The clamp was use when drilling or otherwise cutting holes in the 4x4 ceramic tile.

you are right. a friend was able to pull a pattent # off of it. it was pattented in 1958. it is for tile cutting.