Machine for Cutting Metal Bars (Troncasbarre)
A blade-studded drum in a semicircular frame shears long rods fed in from the side
The sheet carries no writing (e-Leo: 'Privo di scritti'). In brown ink it shows a machine for cutting metal bars: a horizontal cylindrical drum set with rows of blades, held within a semicircular guard and mounted on a heavy timber base, with long parallel rods running off to the right. The catalogue classifies the device as a bar-cutter (troncasbarre).
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Blade-studded drum in a semicircular frame for shearing bars
A cylindrical drum ringed with cutting edges turns within a semicircular guard; the long rods fed in from the right would be sheared to length as the drum rotates. The whole assembly rests on a boxed timber base, with a crank handle at the left. This drawing is untranscribed content, grounded here only on what is drawn.