What is it? Set 453

2629, vaguely resembles boxes used for sound equipment, for travelling
musicians. Except for the open ends....
2630, no clue.
2631, the ramped compartments at the ends might be for coins?
2632, and it's still unidentified.
2633, maybe a bread box?
2634, no clue.

Great selection, this week. I sense that I'm going to learn a lot.

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Rob

On 8/9/2012 6:17 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

2632.  Looks like the gun used in the Road Runner cartoons.

So, my musical theory bombs? I can imagine that.

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Stormin Mormon wrote:

   Looks like it was used by the Air Force to carry aerial bombs

I agree that it's probably for holding money.

typed in rec.crafts.metalworking  the following:

    Shipping container, crank shaft / axle / generator type "core."

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2629  Shipping crate

2630  Glass cutter

2631  Home made tool cabinet

2632  air hose gun

2633  Bread box

2634  35 mm Film leader retriever       http://www.adorama.com/BLFLR.html

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Rob

2634  film retriever. To get 35mm film out of cassette ....

2629 looks like the sort of re-usable box used to store an expensive,
delicate part in a factory between fabrication and installation. Could be
for aircraft, turbine, missile, tank, etc.  The openings at the ends may
mean it held a shaft that rested on the semicircular cutout (which looks
like it is metal-lined for wear). The little removeable sides allowed it to
be picked up more easily.

2630 Shul-son made cobblers and leather tools. Maybe ask a leather worker.

    Posting from rec.crafts.metalworking as always.

2629)    Purely a guess, but I suspect it is for some form of
    airborne ordinance -- probably mounted on  a central pole
    under the wing.  The two openable ports at the end would allow
    it to be slid onto the pole and then the box lowered from under
    the ordinance.  (Probably a rocket of some sort, and maybe after
    it is mounted on the pole, a guidance system will be inserted in
    the nose.

2630)    No guess at all.

2631)    It looks as though the drawer shown could hold paper money in the
    back compartments, and coins in the front ones.  The curved
    front of the front compartments makes it easy to scoop out
    coins.

    When the central drawer is locked, does it also lock the other
    drawers?

    If it were not for the compartments in the shown drawers, I
    would think that it would make an excellent machinist's
    toolchest.

2632)    Without other views, I don't know.

    I suspect that there is a center hole in the right-hand end and
    a plunger which would push out something from the center hole
    when the handles ase squeezed.

    Really -- other views, including the end of the tube, and
    details of the handle pivots would make this a lot easier.

2633)    Assuming that the darker wood is the only part being asked
    about and it is just sitting freely on the lighter wood, I think
    that this could be used as a shoeshine box with the heel of the
    shoe resting behind the cross-bar on top center.

2634)    This looks like a template for trimming the end of 16mm movie
    film.  Just a guess, though.

    Now to post and then see what others have suggested.

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Someone had taken just one photo of this tool over ten years ago, so I can't
get more pictures at this time. This device and the large box are still
mysteries for now, the rest of the answers can be seen here:

http://55tools.blogspot.com/2012/08/set-453.html#answers

From an earlier set, I am remembering something about 2632 being used in
repair of tires, maybe early tube tires on rims. Separate the tire from the
rim, maybe.

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On 08/09/2012 04:08 AM, Rob H. wrote:

#2629 appears to have started life as a shipping crate for some heavy
piece of machinery. Something round with a heavy duty shaft on either end.

Someone then decorated the sturdy box for who knows what.

John

I'm told the previous owner of this large box had used it as a coffee table
in Manhattan.

On 8/10/12 4:25 PM, Rob H. wrote:

A lot of Manhattan apartments are in converted factories.  With the
wheels, the box looks about three feet high.  A maintenance man may have
adapted it as a combination scaffold and tool chest.  The sideboards
appear to be a foot off the floor.  They would help a worker step onto
the box and serve as foot rests if he used the box as a high seat.

The slots suggest it was made for something with a shaft.  The doors
suggest that the shaft was removed before they were closed.  That sounds
like a beam for a loom.

Patterson, the world's silk capital, was 20 miles away.  For cotton and
wool, the world's biggest mill complex was 150 miles up the Hudson.  An
apparel manufacturer might pay top dollar for a single roll of cloth
woven to his specifications on a quick turnaround.  A mill might not
even accept an order for one roll.

I see a market for small weave shops in Manhattan.  A mill would gladly
wind beams for them as they would not be competing for large orders.  A
weaver would keep several beams of different color patterns on hand.  At
the mill, the 836 may have told a foreman what pattern was to be wound
on the beam.  The D may have told him what weave shop it was to be
shipped to.  At the weave shop, the weaver would want to know which end
of the beam was which so that the box could be properly positioned at
the loom before it was opened.  The H door may have identified the head
end of the beam.

On Friday, August 10, 2012 9:55:03 PM UTC-4, J Burns wrote:

I'll bet the wood along the sides was added to lift
the box with a fork lift.

The reinforcements are on the top side, to resist
a lifting operation.

John

woodchips wrote:

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Or the box is set on a couple of curbs or rails when the spool or whatever
is lifted out. Perhaps by some automated loading equipment that needs it
located just so for alignment.

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On 8/9/12 4:08 AM, Rob H. wrote:

2569:  If the shaft would fit within the end doors, why have open ends
at all? Why not make the box 2" longer?

I think it was for a spool that was handled by a shaft, which was
withdrawn for shipment.  It makes me think of beams in textiles.  A beam
might be wound with 1500 threads for the woof.  They might have a
particular color pattern.  Beams would be wound in one department, then
transported to looms.  I don't remember how they were lifted, but it
would have been disastrous for a machine to grab one around the threads.

So, if you have to ship or store a wound beam, you lift it by the shaft
into the box, then withdraw the shaft.  Mice would love to chew up yarns
to get nesting material.  Hence the doors.

On 8/10/12 11:51 AM, J Burns wrote:

http://2.imimg.com/data2/KI/ST/MY-3731351/weavers-beam-500x500.jpg

Here's the sort of beam I have in mind.  If a textile mill has a few
looms ten miles from the main plant, it will want to truck wound beams
without messing up the threads.

If the box was for a beam like this, the notches would be to fit the
hubs, but I think the open ends were to insert and withdraw a shaft used
to hoist it.

Sounds plausible, didn't find anything though when I did a quick search.  I
thought the D in the black rectangle might be a logo I could find on the web
but no luck with that either.