National Meeting What’s It

Middleton WI Spring 2021 Middleton WI Spring 2021 937 No Answer Yet   938 Fillet Cutter   939 Bottle Corking Tool   940 Book Binding Tools   941 Lemon Squeezer   942 No Answer Yet   943 No Answer Yet   944 Scraper Missing Blade...

Springfield Mo Fall 2019 Springfield Missouri Fall 2019 922. A pencil clamp for trammels or dividers   923. A tool for marking tenons for wagon wheel spokes      924. A sewing machine hand drive crank   925. No answer yet   926. This is part of a...

East Peoria, IL Spring 2019 East Peoria IL Spring 2019 903 & 905. This is a fire starter, kerosene was kept in the container. The pumice wand was soaked in the kerosene, set on fire, then placed under logs in the fireplace.   904. No answer yet    ...

Cedar Rapids, IA Fall 2018 Cedar Rapids 2018 Whats Its What’s Its from Cedar Rapids – Fall 2018 872. No answer yet   873. No answer yet   874. This is a device for making fireplace logs by pressing wet newspaper into blocks. 875. No answer yet   876. A part for a...

Lansing, MI Spring 2018 Lansing What’s Its What’s Its From the Meeting 838. No answer yet   839. A garden seeder   840. A hog holder   841.  No answer yet   842. A marking hammer     843. No answer yet     844. Cleco pliers for...

Memphis. TN Fall 2017 Memphis What’s Its What’s Its From the Meeting 818. No answer yet   819. No answer yet   820. No answer yet   821. Possibly a margin gauge to mark the center of a long piece of wood such as a mast. Having worked in a traditional...

Springfield, IL  Spring 2017 Springfield IL What’s Its Springfield, IL Spring 2017 What’s Its from the Meeting   778. Unknown   779. Unknown 780. An optical spanner wrench for adjusting a lens 781. Stove pipe crimper   782. Unknown 783. No answer yet...

Louisville, KY Fall 2016 Louisville, KY – Fall 2016 What’s Its from the Meeting 744 A paint pin striper     745 Unknown     746 Possibly a thread chaser     747 A Pivoted Jaw Tool “The object of this invention is to provide a pivoted jaw...

Des Moines, IA  Spring 2016 Des Moines What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting Item 722 – Unknown Item 723 – A linoleum scribe   Item 724 – A fruit crusher   Item 725 – Unknown   Item – 726 – Unknown   Item 727 – Unknown   Item 728 – A snowbird...

Mars, PA  Fall 2015 Mars What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting 698 This is part of a potato or apple slicer, the item to be sliced is held by the wire.     699 Text on it reads “The Curtis Morgan”       700 A window sash fastener, patent...

Kingsport, TN  Spring 2015 Kingsport What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting 661 This is possibly a pump log shaper that was used to shape the end of a log for coupling two of them together.       662 Most likely a specialty iron of some type, possibly...

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,...

Columbus, OH  Spring 2014 Columbus What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting 561 Unknown       562 A metal rolling device for connecting cables, Patent Number 1,896,512           563 Looks like part of it could be home made,...

Springfield, MO Fall 2013 Springfield 2013 536 A clothes line reel, patent number 870,475     537 A cutter that uses a single edge razor, possibly for boxes, fabric, string, etc.     538 ??     539 A polarity indicator, for determining...

Michigan City, IN Spring 2013 Michigan City Whats Its What’s Its from the Meeting 487 A device for singeing the last remaining feathers on a chicken       488 Possibly a grabber for coals, text on it reads “Pullman”     489 A tuck pointer, or...

Davenport, IA  Fall 2012 Davenport What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting   457 An apparatus for use in repairing commutators,Patent Number 2,170,389       458 Unknown       459 A hair straightener/curler       460...

Asheville, NC Spring 2012 Asheville What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting 408 Probably a wood panel clamp       409 A fruit basket lidding tool       410 An aircraft rivet cutter       411  A band cutter for bailing wire...

Baraboo, WI  Fall 2011 Baraboo What’s Its What’s Its from the Meeting 356 Poultry killing device Patent Number 2081229   357 Part of a hospital bed   358 Tobacco or noodle cutter     359 Saw oiler  Patent Number 1512080   360 Some type of...