A meat hack machine from 1877-1890:

[Hasse SWE]

Hello to all of you old (and new) friends.
I hope that everything is fine with you and that the coronavirus has not placed its heavy dark hand on your shoulders.
With me it's fine (so far I have managed).

-Just before the coronavirus began to show the world how vulnerable we are, I bought this old fashioned forerunner of meat grinder:


It was manufactured by Husqvarna farmerenfabrik between 1877 and 1890 and was called "meat chopping machine".
I have searched with light and succumbed to an old Swedish Patent on it but unfortunately found nothing.
I know there have been very similar machines around the world so that if someone found a patent on a similar mill / hack machine it would be fun to see one.
In many mail order directories there are many nice pictures like this one:
But unfortunately, no one on the chopping machines.
So that if someone has an old cartoon image, it would be fun to see this as well.
As I said, I have searched in Swedish archives but without results.

 

[deluxestogie]

Search Google images for "antique meat grinder Husqvarna", also for sausage stuffer.

Ultra Rare Vtg HUSQVARNA RELIANCE #12 TABLE-TOP Sausage/Meat Grinder - SWEDEN- | #1825194152

Here we have a simply IMPOSSIBLE and RARE Estate Farm find...it is a Vintage HUSQVARNA RELIANCE #12 TABLE-TOP Sausage/Meat Grinder in total original condition with NO DAMAGE and works great! The grind

www.worthpoint.com

Bob

 

[Hasse SWE]

Search Google images for "antique meat grinder Husqvarna", also for sausage stuffer.

Ultra Rare Vtg HUSQVARNA RELIANCE #12 TABLE-TOP Sausage/Meat Grinder - SWEDEN- | #1825194152

Here we have a simply IMPOSSIBLE and RARE Estate Farm find...it is a Vintage HUSQVARNA RELIANCE #12 TABLE-TOP Sausage/Meat Grinder in total original condition with NO DAMAGE and works great! The grind

www.worthpoint.com

Bob

Nice there Bob. I can tell you that this Husqvarna (no:12) was made in the beginning of the 1900's.
I have found it in a I found it in a Husqvarna directory (and several mail order directories) from 1906. It is a meat grinder with 4 leggs (my have only 3 leggs and didn't grinding the meat)

 

[Hasse SWE]

all models in my picture that have an after number customer are purchased either with crank or with wheels (the wheel was a little cheaper than crank models):

 

[Hasse SWE]

So that was the version after mine. If you would like to see the version before mine you have it here:

 

[eebenz]

So that was the version after mine. If you would like to see the version before mine you have it here:

What is that that table and those blades used for? I guess I have seen similar blade at our cottage somewhere but never thought what it actually is. So much rusty old thingys there.

Also have an old meatgrinder at cottage. It looks like the model 20 Husqvarna in the catalog you posted. Do you grind meat with your grinder, make tobacco flour for snus or what do you use it for?

 

[eebenz]

I googled some pics and it seems that the Husqvarna meatgrinder is sold under many names. Or at least very similar ones. One is Rosenlew Sampo (made in finland). https://www.antiq.fi/images/1424356956_DSC09324.jpg http://museokirjastossa.blogspot.com/2017/09/rosenlewin-sampo-8-lihamylly.html

 

[Hasse SWE]

I plan to first download my machine (though the coronavirus needs to calm down a little before).
Then I'll make up my machine, I can't find any color pigment on it and I paint the Iron Oxide Red when that color was overrepresented during 1860 and early 19th century. Even though I might like to have it in a little clearer red, I want as close to the time it's from as possible.
When it's done, I'll chop some meat to get pictures of how mince in the 19th century could look like.
Then I'll chop almonds with it, also to get pictures after that many of Husqvarna's model number 3 are sold as just almond Mills.
But then the machine will be used as a snuff mill.
I'm glad you're asking about the table and the knives. You know that in the past, almost everything was used when you slaughtered, the poorest ate almost no meat everyone's, but sold or exchanged all or at least most of the meat.
So that in richer families, meat and offal were chopped on these tables, with hoes like these.
But straxt before the 1880s so came machine's like mine and those makes the life much easier for the people that was in the kitchen.

 

[Knucklehead]

My aunt used to make some wonderful molasses candy using a meat grinder to grind peanuts for the candy. She is gone now but you remind me I need to ask my cousins for the recipe. She had to hide it and give out a piece at a time or I would scarf it up until I had to lay down for awhile.

 

[Hasse SWE]

My aunt used to make some wonderful molasses candy using a meat grinder to grind peanuts for the candy. She is gone now but you remind me I need to ask my cousins for the recipe. She had to hide it and give out a piece at a time or I would scarf it up until I had to lay down for awhile.

It is fun that an old mill or rather hack machine manages to awaken memories of people.
I myself think of childhood when I had to make sausages in a hand-woven Husqvarna # 10 (actually one that you relate to).

But the shaft in these does not have spikes that push what you throw in them against sharp knives on the edges but a screw shaft that pushes everything forward against spinning knives and out through small holes.
The newer mills were also the ones that also spread into the kitchens of the poorest Swedes in 1890 and until hear and amazed in 1971 these were discontinued.

 

[Knucklehead]

It is fun that an old mill or rather hack machine manages to awaken memories of people.
I myself think of childhood when I had to make sausages in a hand-woven Husqvarna # 10 (actually one that you relate to).

But the shaft in these does not have spikes that push what you throw in them against sharp knives on the edges but a screw shaft that pushes everything forward against spinning knives and out through small holes.
The newer mills were also the ones that also spread into the kitchens of the poorest Swedes in 1890 and until hear and amazed in 1971 these were discontinued.

This was many moons ago but it seemed like my aunt’s grinder used what looked like worm gears in it. No spikes or knives.