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   DavidxDoud | Nov 18, 2004 05:08am | #1

   are you looking for one? - - look at the tags and serial numbers....what size machine is it?  a pump up or single cylinder - carry around or wheeled? - I've got a few resources on orchard equipment from that era - will check if you give me details...

    

   "there's enough for everyone"
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   Nana B. | Jan 20, 2012 06:32pm | #2

   I am in receipt of an antique sprayer made in Worcester MA in 1827 by the SDG Ideal Spray Co.  I am trying to identify this tool.  Did you ever get an answer on what this is used for?  I am attaching 2 photos.

   Thank you for your help.

   
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   DanH | Jan 20, 2012 08:16pm | #3

   That's a bit bizarre -- looks more like a sausage stuffer than a sprayer.

   Presumably it's missing a piston of some sort, that would engage with the cogs on the arms.

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   calvin | Jan 20, 2012 08:30pm | #4

   missing the piston........

   and I would presume a tank and hose.

   Boy, that would be a cumbersom operation.

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   DavidxDoud | Jan 20, 2012 08:56pm | #5

   I agree it's not a sprayer - and I agree the piston is missing - looks to be for forcing relatively small amounts of something, possibly lubricant, into something thru the fitting at the end of the tube - but if that were the case, I'd expect the tube to get buggered up - 

   dunno - interesting - nice clean up job, but that's removed clues as to its function - 

   what's the end of the tube look like?

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   DanH | Jan 20, 2012 09:11pm | #6

   Well the lettering on the main body is clear enough -- it's from a sprayer company.  It could be a duster perhaps -- load powder into the chamber, insert the piston, and pump like a bellows to blow the powder out.  Or could be some sort of a grease gun.

   A close examination of the nozzle end might give more clues.

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   Hokuto | Jan 20, 2012 09:30pm | #7

   Geez, looks like something Torquemada might have a use for.

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   DanH | Jan 20, 2012 10:08pm | #8

   It looks like something my 3rd grade teacher used.

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   cussnu2 | Jan 23, 2012 05:37pm | #12

   I believe that tool was used to cure unfaithful husbands and other various and sundry cads.

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   PeteBradley | Jan 22, 2012 11:17pm | #10

   Were they really doing that kind of press work in 1827?

   I wonder if it's actually Victorian or later on an older patent or design.  

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   PeteBradley | Jan 22, 2012 11:00pm | #9

   Do you have a patent date?

   Is the 1827 part of a patent date?  What does the business end of this thing look like?

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   DanH | Jan 23, 2012 07:04am | #11

   It says right on it -- "PAT'D

   It says right on it -- "PAT'D JAN 82".

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   pjsnetwork | Apr 11, 2014 02:18pm | #13

   SDG Ideal spray tool

   Did you ever find out what this item is?  I just came across one.

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   spclark | Apr 14, 2014 07:42pm | #14

   Sausage Stuffer...

   ... might be spot on!

   Check out the small groove behind the knurled front band on the "output" end of the pressure tube. There's a small ring which could be meant to receive the string that'd secure a sausage casing ("guts" suitably processed) to that fitting, the better to hold in place the material being expressed by means of the lever-actuated (missing) piston.