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Maryland historical society seeks to identify mystery machine
UPI ^ | October 30, 2024 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 10/30/2024 12:52:22 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: ryderann

It looks like a huge, complicated and clumsy tool for making ravioli...


41 posted on 10/30/2024 1:31:10 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Red Badger

Squirrel Reckoner. Saw it right off the bat. Grandfather had one. See, you feed the squirrels in head first. Then they’re reckoned with.


42 posted on 10/30/2024 1:32:51 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Red Badger

from my prison food mass production days, it does look like a food/dough beater system as is the smooth table for pastry making, many repurposed items in the 20s and 30s we had a dough mixer with a 1930 international harvester rear differential in it.


43 posted on 10/30/2024 1:34:34 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Red Badger

Beat yer biscuit!


44 posted on 10/30/2024 1:36:02 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Red Badger

https://fanaticscountryattic.com/products/beaten-biscuit-roller-brake?variant=12744468070443


45 posted on 10/30/2024 1:37:09 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: Red Badger

Meat tenderizer or for working hides?


46 posted on 10/30/2024 1:37:32 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: Red Badger

It looks somewhat like some type of lithograph machine.


47 posted on 10/30/2024 1:37:52 PM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: ryderann

Well, something is moving along through the two rollers and producing dents as you said....and I agree...it’s probably a food product. Hmmmmm


48 posted on 10/30/2024 1:45:53 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Hot Tabasco

“hamburger paddy maker”

Irish burgers?


49 posted on 10/30/2024 1:48:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“President Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America”)
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To: Red Badger

pasta maker ...


50 posted on 10/30/2024 1:48:18 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Red Badger

Hexagons, not circular shape. most interesting. perhaps for cutting honeycomb frames for beehives.


51 posted on 10/30/2024 1:48:48 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Sacajaweau

I’d take some scrapings from the area just below the plate to a lab.


52 posted on 10/30/2024 1:51:12 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a prototype for a repurposer.


53 posted on 10/30/2024 1:58:58 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Borders, language and culture. Michael Savage)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a very old printing press.


54 posted on 10/30/2024 2:20:06 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: William of Barsoom

Was that something that was used to torture hamsters


55 posted on 10/30/2024 2:41:20 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Cats For Trump 2024!)
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To: Red Badger

If that thing were used for biscuits there would be flour in every crack and crevice.

Except for the knobby roller on top it looks like the machines the monument industry used to “punch out “ templates in the 20th century. Some shops still use them as they never crash or are left “ no longer supported.”


56 posted on 10/30/2024 2:48:24 PM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: Red Badger

An early ballot reader?


57 posted on 10/30/2024 3:06:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger

nub-o-matic

Early version judging lack of turbocharger


58 posted on 10/30/2024 3:25:21 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Red Badger

It’s a democratic ballot counting machine. If the ballot is democratic it slides right through. If it is republican the little nobs tear it apart!


59 posted on 10/30/2024 4:07:25 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Lazamataz

LOL


60 posted on 10/30/2024 4:11:58 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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