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What is It? Game 19

Today's collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this strange-looking dial. Guess what it is and win a Free Neatorama T-Shirt! Check out What is It? for more clues on today's object.

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Update 4/13/07: The answer is:

Years ago fuel delivery trucks didn't have any type of a pump to transfer the fuel from the truck to the farmer's storage tank. The fuel was moved in 5 gallon containers by hand. This indicator was mounted on the truck and each time a 5 gallon can was filled they advanced it one space to keep track of the gallons delivered.

This must be easy for you guys, winner is SarahS #6.


its a distance measuring device. you guide the wheel along a surface and count the numbers of turns made. if you know the wheel circumference, you can calculate the distance
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it'a a indicating weel, it can be used to indicate the percentage of completion of a given task, it can be administrative, a chemical prosses, etc.

(SORRY ABOUT THE ENGLISH)
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I agree with a throttle guage for either a boat or train.

But, I could be wrong. It definitely bears a strong resemblance to a device used for determining the amount of bananas needed. Or it is in fact a banana.
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Okay, water control valve. The only thing I could find associated with Moore and Kling had to do with water works.

But it still might be a banana.
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It's obviously a tool/device used to open, measure, control or select the very items that are passed though, counted, dispensed and monitored by various individuals, machines, and observers of both human and electrical origin. It's an incredibly rare item that can be found in great abundance throughout several vast regions within a specific locale or expansive geographic area.
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The letters look as though they're raised, could it be a device to create numbered buttons of a sort? kinda like how the "seals" were made in older times, using wax... or how the old Mints made coins...?
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Well considering that moore and kling inc. is a water utilities company in Mass. It is more than likely a device to regulate the flow of water through a pipe. the lever starts vertically, then can be rotated clockwise all the way around back to vertical for 100 % flow rate.
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I think it's a water flow control that measures GPM or Thousands of GPM through a valve. The company is or was in the water metering business for years.
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