Mechanical hammer
Category
Machinery and industrial devices
Date
circa 1750 - circa 1820
Materials
Metal, Wood
Measurements
2730 mm (Length)1035 mm (H)470 mm (W)
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Finch Foundry, Devon
NT 56157
Summary
Trip Hammer (plating) - One of two large water powered, belt driven mechanical hammers. (right hand side) Secondhand, probably from the same Tavistock ironworks that employed the Finch's before they started the Foundry. The striking plate and anvil base almost certainly renewed several times.
Provenance
Transferred to the Trust from North Dartmoor Museums Association in 1994 - no OKMDL number but listed in transfer inventory as item 1119 and described generically as Hammer machinery.