Looks to be a very fine cut from the picture at the end. I wonder if the machine was manufactured to be for personal use during the mid century USSR. I suppose it was for shredding cigarette tobacco. Or maybe for a small tobaccoists( idk if they even had shops in the USSR in those day,
That was great! Thanks for posting it.
The Trademark® on the upper face is not Cyrillic, but says "Patent 1", so it probably is British or US made. (You can read the trademark fairly well in some of the shots after the restoration, if you freeze the frame.) I agree with @FmGrowit, that without seeing leaf go in and shred come out, you can't really know. Also, with those now-clean, but still dull blades, I would guess the leaf fed into it would need to be a bit dry.
Dang. It is not a tobacco cutter, but a meat grinder. My bad.The Trademark® on the upper face is not Cyrillic, but says "Patent 1", so it probably is British or US made. (You can read the trademark fairly well in some of the shots after the restoration, if you freeze the frame.) I agree with @FmGrowit, that without seeing leaf go in and shred come out, you can't really know. Also, with those now-clean, but still dull blades, I would guess the leaf fed into it would need to be a bit dry.
The general design seems to be a modification of the period design of meat grinders and sausage stuffers.
The array of individual blades and rotating steel fingers seems to be common in similar devices. Even when in new condition, I would imagine that the blades, shredding quantities of tobacco leaf, would need to be sharpened frequently. Since its general design is that of other home kitchen devices of the time, my guess would be that this is intended for home, rather than industrial use.
French, industrial tobacco chopper from 1895:
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I thought it was an interesting antique. The video was cool.
You should see how he restores and old blacksmith's anvil (er, I mean hair curler).
