Identify this object.

[Googer]

What is it?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Looks like a clam/vice of some sort.

 

[Beige]

old cup holdeR?

 

[Juno]

schlong stretcher?

 

[iamtrout]

vagina

 

[BooGiMaN]

thats a ball holder....basically when someone tells someone 'i see your wife has got you by the balls" they are referring to this thing...


it can also be used as a truth telling machine..cuz once she has them in there all she needs to do is crank it and you will tell her anything she wants to know

 

[olds]

Some type of jig/press/clamp.

 

[Googer]

I think it is some kind of a streacher. This photograph is a big clue.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Late 19th century salesman's presentation of a much larger machine made by the
Riehle Bros. Testing Machine Co.

No idea what they would compress or streatch. They did make portable hardness testers.
That came up via Google.

Send pics to Dillon's testing machine division and I bet they would know.


...Galvanized

 

[Sukhoi]

Looks a bit like a compression or tensile testing machine, but I don't quite understand the cup things.

 

[ddviper]

im thinking a sort of gripping device, either made for a certain product (hence the immovable clamps) or something related

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Late 19th century salesman's presentation of a much larger machine made by the
Riehle Bros. Testing Machine Co.

No idea what they would compress or streatch. They did make portable hardness testers.
That came up via Google.

Send pics to Dillon's testing machine division and I bet they would know.


...Galvanized

My research show that Trindle Engineering was in existance around 1941. It was founded by a Mr. Trindle, his 60+ year old grandson is still around today and works as a professor in Kentucky. I have emailed him to see what he knows.

 

[Googer]

http://riehle.net/dFR/UTM/RiehleColdBend.htm

 

[Googer]

http://riehle.net/dFR/UTM/RiehleBrosMachine.htm

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Googer
http://riehle.net/dFR/UTM/RiehleBrosMachine.htm

AH!...for some reason I thought it would be used to test the stregth of bricks

 

[Sukhoi]

I'm not seeing how those two links are the object in question.

Are you just saying it's a miniature tensile/compression testing machine? If so, I was right.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
I'm not seeing how those two links are the object in question.

Are you just saying it's a miniature tensile/compression testing machine? If so, I was right.

I suspect that the one in the ebay auction is a scale model to be used as a salesmans demonstration sample. To lug the real thing around would not be practical on large items.

 

[Sukhoi]

Not quite as big as this one. It's just gigantic in person.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Not quite as big as this one. It's just gigantic in person.

:Q

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Since Trundel was a speciality type outfit it's some kind of old school press. Most likely a company made something they tried to patent and needed this tool to compress two pieces together.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Since Trundel was a speciality type outfit it's some kind of old school press. Most likely a company made something they tried to patent and needed this tool to compress two pieces together.

Trundel is a misspelling. It's Trundle. And Trundle was the firm that designed that device and not the name of the tool.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Not quite as big as this one. It's just gigantic in person.

So what is that thing?

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Since Trundel was a speciality type outfit it's some kind of old school press. Most likely a company made something they tried to patent and needed this tool to compress two pieces together.

Trundel is a misspelling. It's Trundle. And Trundle was the firm that designed that device and not the name of the tool.

Which is irrelevant. I was kind of pointing out that it's some type of press.

 

[Googer]

It's not really that irrelevant, correct spelling will help greatly, if you are trying to search google to figure out what it is.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Not quite as big as this one. It's just gigantic in person.

So what is that thing?

It's just a really big tensile/compression testing machine. I'm not sure this is true because it's crazy dangerous, but I heard at one point it was used to test those really big chains used to tie large ships up at dock. It can create 3,000,000 lbs of force. In comparison, those floor-standing machines you see in labs get to around 50,000 lbs of force.