From: "Heritage Center" <info@nrheritagecenter.org> Subject: RE: Seeking name and use for unknown iron object Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:53:53 -0500 Message-ID: <000601cfefc4$3d8f3e60$b8adbb20$@org>
Looking at our collection I would guess that they are used in the making of
rope ----it keeps the strands from twisting up----------Irv Sather
New Richmond Heritage Center
1100 Heritage Drive
New Richmond, WI 54017
www.NRHeritageCenter.org
715-246-3276
From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu
[mailto:localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Karen
Baumgartner
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:59 AM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Subject: Seeking name and use for unknown iron object
The attached photos are of two metal objects that look like brass knuckles,
but aren't. They are used in farming. Our best guess is rope guides. The
size would fit in the palm of your hand, about 3 inches across. LOUDEN is
the manufacturing company.
The Louden Machinery Company had operations in Fairfield, Iowa.
In 1867, William Louden invented a patented hay carrier that made two-story
barns practical. According to one description, Louden's hay carrier
"utilized the already existing hay fork tool but broadened its use by
attaching it to an overhead monorail along which the hay fork and hay could
be moved within a barn."
Source: Wikipedia.org/wiki/Louden_Machinery_Company
There is a Louden catalog online, but this small piece didn't seem to be in
it.
Any help you can give us to name and describe these objects will be
appreciated.
Karen Baumgartner
German Settlement History, Inc
Ogema, Wisconsin