Rockford, IL 

Fall 2014

Rockford What’s Its

What’s Its from the Meeting

636 A shoe stretcher

 

 

637 This tool was possibly used to flatten straw or reeds

 

 

638 A shaving horse for holding a work piece while shaving it down to the proper size, the second photo shows the stepped part that gripped the work piece

 

 

 

639 A plumbers contour marker adapter, Patent Number 3,000,098

 

 

 

640 Possibly a feather for use with a stone splitting wedge

 

 

 

641 A plate lifter, patent number 1,357,131

 

 

 

642 A plumb bob mold

 

 

 

643 A street car bell gong, patent number 784,382

 

 

 

 

644 A glove worker’s clamp

 

 

 

645 A spike puller, patent number 719,735

 

 

 

 

 

646 A pool cue trimmer

 

 

 

647 A mold for a mini ball bullet

 

 

 

648 No answer yet for this clamp type tool, it looks like a rope or rod could be held in the groove at the bottom.

 

 

 

 

649 A load binder for hay, patent number 839,991

 

 

 

650 ??

 

 

 

 

651 This tool appears to be a prototype for cutting something, the part on the end is too small to hold an egg.

 

 

 

652 According to the owner this could be an ink pen and a knife eraser, still looking for a reference for this answer

 

 

 

 

 

653 A screw driver and socket wrench tool, patent number 2,007,432

 

 

 

654 A tool for doing auto body work

 

 

655 An Ullmer micrometer, patent number 675,875

 

 

 

 

656 ??

 

 

657 A carpet stretcher

 

 

658 This is probably an exerciser

 

 

 

659 A frame for supporting dead ducks as decoys, patent number 230,600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

660 ??