Definitive answers only please, there has already been ALOT of guessing hehe.

Interesting piece of gear, got a ratchet to extend the little spiked doohickey and a cam to lock it in place, looks to be late 19th C. or early 20th C. So what is it? :huh:

Nobody else going to try? Sam, do you know what this is?

Sam said no guessing. Any luck with google's patent search?

 

Definitive answers only please, there has already been ALOT of guessing hehe.

 

 

Can you send / Post the other side I have an Idea what it may be .

 

Samuel Cro

I think it says Waynn Timmins [& Company] and it was patented in GB.  I can't make out the number which may be a patent or part number.  A search of UK patent office may help to figure this out.  Waynn Timmins does hold a lot of GB patents.

it looks like some kind of latch