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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Lilbigfoot on September 04, 2011, 02:57:01 PM
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Hello....a neighbour brought this item over to me cause I'm probably the oldest guy on the block. He doesn't know what it is. I don't either. There's a pair of them. Seems to have a mounting hole on one side. No markings on them. Any one help us out? Thanks. Don
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This photo shows item turned over. Object is about 9 inches long and the center opening is about 2 inches top to bottom.
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My first guess would be that perhaps this cool old thing could be a combo - stationary mount/holder for a footladder .
Perhaps it also could be used as a bench-mounted bundling device ??
Let's see what some more members chime in with (hopefully a 'right' answer) !
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This is way out of my league, but my first thought was maybe a rifle wall mount. ;D
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My first thought was some sort of handcuff or finger cuff. Then I thought perhaps some sort of tightener for those strap thingies that go around bucking horses when you ride them and want to keep your hands tied down tight...but really, I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about. I just have a very colorful imagination.
Cole~
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I'm starting to like the gun ideal, but may a work bence clamp for working or making Guns. Looks like it has two different sized round Clamps and on that appears to be about the size of a Gun but in the middle, also appears to be able to slide to different postions once it was mounted to a table. I'm about the worst of these what is it games, but thought I would throw in my ideal based on the gun mount.
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The closing reminds me of a suspender closing. Use of that was to change the tightness of something. Maybe it has something to do with a hoist. It would attach to the wall and the rope would feed through.
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Wish I could help...even asked my husband who knows all these handy contraptions, but no dice. Good luck! This is a shot in the dark but it kind of looks like something that might be around a stable or blacksmith's. But that's just a guess.
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May I ask general area you live? Area of country?
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This is driving me crazy! Something to do with cars/engines? That might explain the mounting holes. Hose clamp of some sort? No clue. I'm trying to imagine the inside shape and what it could hold...
By the way, Cole cracked me up. :)
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I can't wait to find out what this is! I bought an old tool this summer for some type of carving but had no idea what it really was. An elderly gentleman that lives on our street used to be a carpenter back in the day and told me it was used to carve wooden wheel spokes. If I see him over the next few days, I'll ask him if he has any idea.
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May I ask general area you live? Area of country?
Thanks to you and all those who've replied so far. I'm in London, Ontario, Canada.
I put the same question up on a Knife Forum I belong to and no one there knows what it is either.
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Another point.....inside the larger loop....that's a hard rubber liner. Remember, there's a pair of them.
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inside the larger loop....that's a hard rubber liner
Ah so, and given that center bolt thru the slotted opening, it could very well be a permanently mounted "hose clamp" that was made for easily changing or replacing said hoses.
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I'm probably way off, but I keep looking up old equipment used for horses or farming. I have the day off so I will go see my friend if he is home.
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It is not used with a horse, nothing on our antique tractors that looks similar !! Its possible that it was a wall mount for a fire extinguisher !! But the bottom bolt tightens the opening so it would have to go over a round shape and the bolt tightened around it,,,so I am not sure about that !!
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What's interesting...the bottom pic looks like the "handle" has a place for mounting which the other pics don't!
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It does have a hole but it couldn`t be used to mount or you couldn`t unlatch it !! I didn`t notice that hole but that would tell that it would be on the topside !!
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I did ask my friend about it and he didn't know off hand. I am sure he'll dwell on it a bit.
Good catch, mart (the topside). This is going to bother me. I just have to know what it is!
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Those two (2) thingys are …. permanently mounted “quick-release” compression clamps.
They are mounted either in a vertical position with the hinged end at the top, … or at any angle down to a horizontal position. They are mounted by placing the “arm” with a hole in its center onto a steel “stud”, with the “stud” in the hole of the “arm”, and then the bolt was tightened which squeezed the “arm” tightly around the steel “stud”, thus firmly affixing the clamp in place.
To mount the clamp in any other position than describe above would make it extremely cumbersome to operate, …. like maybe the use of at least three (3) hands.
Whatever the clamp was meant to hold would be placed against or on the firmly affixed “arm” and then the hinged “arm” would be swung over top of it. Then the “quick release” handle would be swung up over the ends of the “arms” and snapped into place, thus firmly holding whatever was placed inside the clamp. Similar types of “quick-release” compression clamps were/are used on doors, lids, etc., such as the old “steamer” trunks.
And given the fact that those clamps are made of cast iron ….. then they have been around for quite a long time …… and whatever they were used on/for is most probably long gone. One might check old photographs of farming machines/equipment, old firefighting pumpers, wagons, engines, etc., ….. or etc., ….. for one of those clamps being used to hold an “item” in a handy place to get to.
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About time you got in on this one Cogar !! I thought it might have been for a fire extinguisher,, hose would lay over the top and down through the round sections on the sides,, like a vaccum cleaner hose !!
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I can finally sleep knowing they have a name! Can't wait to tell my friend, maybe he will recall them now.
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They use much smaller versions of those today in aircraft to hold cabling and hydraulic tubing. Maybe these were used on a ship?