Help identifying this?

[Michael Ray Smith]

This may be a bit off topic because I don't think this has anything to do with hand tools, but I didn't know where else to go for information. If there's some other forum or website that is better suited for this question, please feel free to send me a link.

That said, can anyone help me identify this tool or (more likely) piece of machinery? In addition to the saws and other hand tools we discuss here, Atkins made a lot of cutting devices for industrial machinery, and this is probably one of them. I've found pictures of gizmos that look something like this in old Atkins catalogs called circular knives, but all the pictures I've seen show only the center hole, not the other four. However, those four holes may have been added later, especially in light of the fact that the back sides of the holes are out of round.

Can anyone help?

Mike

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[Jim Koepke]

The look like paper cutting wheels found on some equipment I have worked on in the past.

We used to call them "pizza cutters."

I have one somewhere around here, but it isn't an Atkins.

jtk

[Jamie Ray]

E. C. Atkins company made hand saws. They also had a plant in NY that made machine knives. I suspect you have a machine knife, though to what I can't say. There is more information about the saw company here: http://www.wkfinetools.com/hus-saws/atkins/history/HIST1-index.asp

[Chris Griggs]

Well its a dingle-hopper, of course...



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