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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on August 04, 2012, 06:01:35 AM

Title: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: skipskip on August 04, 2012, 06:01:35 AM

Any ideas for this, prolly food related item.

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8165/7705469492_86eef025cc_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/7705469492/)
AUG 020 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/7705469492/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr


more pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/sets/72157630886541528/with/7705469492/



came from a home business that sold Italian specialties, like sauces and ??

thanks

Skip

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: john k on August 04, 2012, 08:50:02 AM

With the crankshaft driven knife, looks like it could cut pasta into regular pieces, sure would like to see it working.

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on August 04, 2012, 10:10:05 AM

I found this vid of a modern one. It sure looks like it does the same things plus a few more.  Does yours have a place for slitting knives for noodles?

http://www.trailertheater.com/video.php?id=M0E4aXdSRlUwVFU=&title=lm-pleasure-pasta-machine-and-the-s (http://www.trailertheater.com/video.php?id=M0E4aXdSRlUwVFU=&title=lm-pleasure-pasta-machine-and-the-s)

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: scottg on August 04, 2012, 12:33:55 PM

I have seen similar machines.
 Ravioli squares or similar little lumps of pasta is what I was one making.
This could be for spaghetti, but maybe it presses out shells?
  Spirolina? Radiatores?
 I dunno.
 Looks like pasta somehow though.
    yours Scott

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: Ietech on August 04, 2012, 05:36:43 PM

In the long ago I worked in a bakery and the had a very similar machine to cut dough.

I think this one is for pasta considering all the information provided above.

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: Nolatoolguy on August 04, 2012, 06:40:46 PM

I would be willing to say it was some kind of dough proccesser that rolled it an cut it in to uniform pieces.

Not a bad find, bakery equitments a type of tool isnt it?

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: rusty on August 04, 2012, 06:44:07 PM

> bakery equitments a type of tool isnt it?

Absolutely :)

The only problem with it being a dough cutter is the crank throw looks really short, perhaps 2 inches? (guessing at the scale of the picture tho)

Some confections are cut to length also. It would help to know what the cutting interval is, and what the odd little rod thing on the right side does....

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: Nolatoolguy on August 05, 2012, 12:06:57 AM

I showed my the pictures but not the titles my dad whos been managing various food franchises(one being a bakery) for the past 40 years an if he had to GUESS heres what he said

"probably production pasta machine as it comes in the back roller its given a uniform thickness then after that the gullitiene would cut it to lengh. Pasta dough is not thick therefore the cutting blade does not have to be real high. If it is for pasta there was probably a side trimmer atachemnt or a second machine that went after it to trim it to width. Pasta dough is thin making a tall slicing blade unnecisary. Its to narrow an theres not enough room under the roller for bread or pizza dough. All the before stated is only a edicated guess thoe."

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: Billman49 on August 05, 2012, 05:22:54 AM

Looking at the diameter of the gear, about 3 1/2" - that would give a circumference of about 12" - which is the length of pastas such as spaghetti - is the feed belt directly geared a similar diameter gear?? The roller certainly looks about the same size.... If the belt roller rotates at the same speed as tbe knife crank, then it would cut 12" (approx) lengths - if the gear ratios can be changed, it could also be used to cut shorter or longer pastas...

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: 1930 on August 05, 2012, 10:57:54 AM

All this pasta talk is makin me hungry

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: Aunt Phil on August 06, 2012, 12:18:34 PM

Well when ya look at something that came from an old Italian food making facility, it really helps if you have an old Italian to go to with your questions.  Fortunately Rochester still has a few who haven't assumed full time horizontal posture in a box.

Now, things like your industrial spaghetti and macaroni are extruded products, squeezed out of a die and cut by a rotating knife, boxcar loads of it were made at Gioia every week for years.  Your lasagna noodle is made the same way.

That guillotine cutter is HALF of the machine that made the little square meat or cheese filled pies  that taste so damn good.  Of course if the "bakery" was poor, they could have employed a bunch of women to take the trays of pies back around the machine for a second trip through to cut the strips into squares.

Of course you gotta understand none of that factory pasta is as good as the pasta mama made fresh at home while the kids were at school, but when all those wimmen went to work in factories what could you do.  So sayeth Uncle Vincenzo.

Title: Re: owner says pasta machine , I doubt it
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on August 07, 2012, 04:43:16 AM

Pasta-Shmasta, it is a VERY COOL machine.  Anything made out of cast iron that has a hand crank and open gears is way cool! Throw in a crankshaft and some linkaged monkey motion and it is off the cool chart. That thing is a treasure.