Sunday, November 04, 2007

What is this tool?



A quarter is shown for scale.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

hand clamp? spring closure?

Anonymous said...

it is for holding hot pans. we used them at the pizza place to hold the hot deep dish pans while you wrangled the pizza out with a spatula...only place i've ever seen them.

Les said...

For pizza pans, huh? I don't think I woulda ever guessed that. Thanks for the comments.

Anonymous said...

remember back to your very early days when mom sterilize your glass baby bottles.
threeputt

Les said...

I can almost see a baby bottle picker upper in this thing... But, the appearance that the nose closes flush indicates it was designed to grasp something very thin - maybe pizza pan thin but not-so-much baby bottle glass thin. The lack of black/burned stuff though, like you see on a well-used pizza pan, leads me to believe this tool was used for something else. The angle of the grip also seems to be a little off for removing pizzas from an oven which is usually about chest high.

I really have no idea what this thing was designed to be used for.