Mystery tool on Ebay

[Sheffield Tony]

Ok, now it has ended on Ebay, can anyone ease my bafflement by telling me what this is/was for ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-vinta ... 19fbf518ef

 

[lurker]

My old dad would tell you it was a wigwam for a wowser
Not a clue but I want to know

 

[Chrispy]

I may be way out but I think it is a set of extrusion heads for making plastic netting, if I'm right you would use two of the large discs rotating in opposite directions extruding a plastic thread out of each nozzle forming a net tube that would then be stretched to size.
Well it's my notion anyway.

 

[AndyT]

That's a good one! I've no idea, but I'm hoping it was Andy Tools n Tat who bought it, so we can all have a good look at it some time!

Chris, your idea sounds plausible - are you matching it to something you know exists?

I really have no idea, but it would be nice to know!

 

[RossJarvis]

Looks a little bit like an Enigma machine to me :?

 

[Sheffield Tony]

One of the reasons it caught my eye is that the workings have a bit in common with a novel agricultural seed drill I once saw. That had a thick rotating disc with plungers in it. As it rotated, the sliding contact surface with holes in it served to commutate cpmpressed air flow into / out of little plungers that dibbbed each seed into the ground to a fairly precise depth. Obviously not the same function, but was commutating a flow of compressed air or something be part of it ?

 

[bridger]

a set of indexing wheels for a rose engine?

 

[Argus]

I was puzzled too...............
One of the four avid bidders must know what it's for.

 

[xy mosian]

My old dad would tell you it was a wigwam for a wowser
Not a clue but I want to know

Ah now there would be an argument with my old Dad. He would say it is definitely a "wimwam for ducks to peark" on. His dad was a Lincolnshire lad.

 

[AndyT]

Ok, if nobody knows that one, what about this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-A...aped-Driver-Heads-Patented-1905-/301524073139

It sold for £43.07.

Presumably some sort of multi-tip screwdriver but in what context? Clockmaking? Guns? There's a patent date, BB!

 

[cjp]

At first glance I thought maybe making holes in leather strapping as they look like larger versions of my belt hole tool! Though those would be odd holes, and they seem too complicated for that.

 

[clk230]

Ok, if nobody knows that one, what about this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-A...aped-Driver-Heads-Patented-1905-/301524073139

It sold for £43.07.

Presumably some sort of multi-tip screwdriver but in what context? Clockmaking? Guns? There's a patent date, BB!

Looks like a spoke key to me.

 

[Dovetaildave]

multi-tool for machine screws, security type screws?

 

[n0legs]

Ok, if nobody knows that one, what about this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-A...aped-Driver-Heads-Patented-1905-/301524073139

I once saw a BT engineer with one very similar for the phone boxes.

 

[Bluekingfisher]

Ok, if nobody knows that one, what about this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-A...aped-Driver-Heads-Patented-1905-/301524073139

It sold for £43.07.

Presumably some sort of multi-tip screwdriver but in what context? Clockmaking? Guns? There's a patent date, BB!

Some sort of spoke tensioner?

 

[arnoldmason8]

Ok, if nobody knows that one, what about this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unusual-A...aped-Driver-Heads-Patented-1905-/301524073139

It sold for £43.07.

Presumably some sort of multi-tip screwdriver but in what context? Clockmaking? Guns? There's a patent date, BB!

Looks like a spoke key to me.

Is it a piano tuning key ?

Regards Arnold