What Is This Thing?

Hi,

I used to have 20 of these, side-by-side on a circular wheel (little bit like the one at the top of the page) and I lost one - the remaining 19 were happy cos they couldn't do any work. This could be the lost one.

Gear Dentist

Looks like the one missing from this gear

Why not ask the one who has given the details. If it is a secret matter then why are you disclosing here.

I can say that, no one can waste so much material to have a blade alone. Hence, it is not for cutting something.

The smooth edge tells that it should roll easily without friction.

Perhaps the weight of the tool was used for cutting something soft then it is partially fabricated material and to be modified. Then why one will not disclose it at the first place?

I have seen some such covers for the hand sewing machines and these are made of a sheet metal with hollow inside. However, that does not have sharp edges. Nothing is made without a purpose.

Even if you know, then what difference it will make for you. It is always good thing to keep the secret of the client and friend and never disclose in public. After all the design has one's copy right the day one has visualized and passed it to you to give shape. It is still the idea of some one. Copyright is valid for life and in entire world and does not require and registration at all. It is better not to discuss such thing in public unless it is something you digged from earth yourself.

Thank you for the input... It is not something that exist exept in a vision a friend of mie had. I am trying to analize what the meaning is of what he saw (Based on the fact that he was VERY specific about the exact shape and colour. The size of it is about the size of a small waterlemon or a bread. It is grey and rather made of a hard plastic than a metal. It defenitely have a sharp edge (for cutting perhaps.. without damaging the surface. Thanks for the comment about "Nothing is made without a purpose.." and about cutting by weight. "Ice scraper" also has great potential to be pointing in the right direction. That it can be a tooth of a gear is not ruled out...But why the cutting edge then?

If you guys think this is a waste of time to discuss this just say so and let it be. Otherwise keep sending the ideas.. Thanx.

Its a snow plow for a side walk! (just add the handle)

-From Blizzard Torn Denver!

Hard to say without more details. Is it the size of a tooth or the size of a building? Is this just a short section of a long extrusion? Are attachment points or other details left off your drawing? My gut feeling with no explanation is that it is part of an ice surfacer. AKA Zamboni.

slo

Or a windshield ice scraper.

Looks a lot like a rubber bump stop used to limit reciprocal motion before it hits a chassis or other frame.

Looks like its a cast mold for a mailbox

looks like a squeezer used for screen printing- as you said it is of a size of water melon, made of Polyurethane shore 90 A?

Hi, you make all go chase the wild goose! :)

Chan Luci

I'll guess that it's a die for pressing that contour into sheet metal or hot workable plastic. The lip is there to hold it in place on one side... or shear the material. Actually, it could be anything. The uses of the parabolic shape, that I can think of, are mostly negated by the turned out edge. Such as a part on the leading edge of wing, a part of a large gear mentioned above, a poorly designed hydrolic turbine fin, it does look like it could have a use for spreading and scraping on flat surfaces. Maybe it's a rough cut of a female robot's chest, just waiting for the next processes to work it into shape. Whatever it is, I think you should give it a name. Grey loaf, grey volume, iThingamaiggy?

If you want specifics, it's a 3D rendering of an extruded parabolic curve with one edge having an outward radius of about 1/10 the total height.

Yes this is what it is otherwise it is the missing part of Guest #1 and he should return it.

Could be part of a printer. But again, where are the mounting holes?

Gordie.

So that's where it's gone. I've been looking for that for ages. Can I have it back, please?

It would make a good wheel chock depending on it's size.

Looks like waste material cut from something larger.

Looks like a cutting edge for a label printer

but it's upside-down

Where did he have this vision or when did he have it. In example, did he have it after he visited somewhere? Did he just "dream"this or is this soemthing that he has seen years before. Trying to determine what you mean by his "vision".

Lets just say that it was after an intence emotional event. I found it interesting that he could describe something abstract and emotional in such a concrete detailed manner. Conclusion is that it have symbolic meaning and that this forum may be the wrong place for it. Never the less... Seems that everyone enjoys guessing.. some are verry funny. Thanks ya all for the laughs.. My best guess is that it is a stumbling block. The sharp edge is there to make sure if you stumble over it and kick it over that you also get a nasty cut on your chin..

3-D rendering of the validity of this conversation? ;)

Best reply so far.

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composite airfoil form?

I have the answer!

it is an egg conveyer, made of rubber and allows for a 90 degree direction change.

it can be used in production of plastic items that come in that shape while cutting them.

If it was made of light metal or hard plastic, it definitely would make a good scraper. Especially to scrape decals and decorations off windows and other glass surfaces. If it was made of fabric and filled with down or foam, and the edge was knocked off, it might make a good ergonomic pillow.

It a snake that eat a mountain, can find it in little prince

I can't believe that this austere group of minds has not already figured this one out! It clearly is a short section cut from a strip of the very largest polyurethane foam insulation that is currently produced. The apparent "cutting" edge is merely an extension of the adhering surface to increase adhesion. This type of foam insulation is typically used for sealing around doors and hatches. There are, however, relatively few uses for foam strips in this size (25 cm x 20 cm) and it is very expensive! Thus, please immediately report the identity of the person who selfishly cut out a section for use as pillow!

The shape of the top makes me think of a sharp-crested weir; or with the bottem being flat like it is, it could be set in an open channel and used as a submerged weir to increase the upstream water elevation.

Not a weir! A dam! It's an overflow dam with the bottom portion curved to smoothly divert the flow and not damage the bottom through erosion!

Dam good suggestion eh?!

If the inside is hollow, it might be a bucket for a bucket elevator.

We had forms like this in cutting form tools on wire EDM's. Usually this would be the waste material cut from the tool shank.

Your friend was watching FoodTV before his "vision"

This is a poorly designed flour scraper.

It could be a mould for a drainage trench on side of a room. to be used upside down. the flat end must be placed against the waal and the curved edge with sharp edge to form the edge for better flow.

Put is on sale here as there are so many who found some use of it. You can also put into some art gallery for million dollars as technology for future to detect black energy and black matter. All one has to do is to concentrate and meditate in front of it.

5 points go for it.

t is a missing section of this thing. I have been looking for it since I lost it. Rturn it as soon as possible.

Nice :-)

Ok, it is yours... pleeeeze take it back, it is in my way... Want to do some work now...

Heads it's mine. Tails it's yours?

Engineering Pictionary!?!? lolol

If it is metallic, and the edge is "sharp", it is most likely one tooth from a gear shaping cutter... or a single tooth cutter for a highly capable CNC gear shaper.

-Failure is NOT an option-

hi,

I am özgün and ı think this is a belt tooth for example 8M HTD

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