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I have seen cider press gears, have one, but they are large. This one worked at 150mm and its still way too small by right for the size of shaft they use. They could have used one of the bevel gear? they are smaller but thick. The ghibli idea of alcohol burner in cement in ashtray might be a better one to use. or be forced to use the solid plain gear everyone else uses.

I class this as a Cogwheel or Cogged wheel as it has cogs (the square primitive teeth) set about a spoked wheel. Gears are more professionally industrial formed teeth rather than the more primitive work from the correct time period Pre-1900's.

"It was a charming fireplace, made by Arrietty's grandfather, with a cogwheel from the stables, part of an old cider-press. The spokes of the cogwheel stood out in starry rays, and the fire itself nested in the center."

Above there was a chimney-piece made from a small brass funnel, inverted. This, at one time, belonged to an oil lamp which matched it, and which stood, in the old days, on the hall table upstairs. An arrangement of pipes, from the spout of the funnel, carried fumes into the kitchen flues above. The fire was laid with matchsticks and fed with assorted slack* and, as it burned up, the iron would become hot, and Homily would simmer soup on the spokes in a silver thimble, and Arrietty would broil nuts. "

It would make more sense if the cogwheel was vertical rather than the tradition view of it being horizontal, because the center hole of the gear is still the fireplace but its not in borrower terms an entire body length from the center.

Slack: Coal under 20mm or one's thumb in size used to keep a fire going overnight.

Description

I have seen cider press gears, have one, but they are large. This one worked at 150mm and its still way too small by right for the size of shaft they use. They could have used one of the bevel gear? they are smaller but thick. The ghibli idea of alcohol burner in cement in ashtray might be a better one to use. or be forced to use the solid plain gear everyone else uses.

I class this as a Cogwheel or Cogged wheel as it has cogs (the square primitive teeth) set about a spoked wheel. Gears are more professionally industrial formed teeth rather than the more primitive work from the correct time period Pre-1900's.

"It was a charming fireplace, made by Arrietty's grandfather, with a cogwheel from the stables, part of an old cider-press. The spokes of the cogwheel stood out in starry rays, and the fire itself nested in the center."

Above there was a chimney-piece made from a small brass funnel, inverted. This, at one time, belonged to an oil lamp which matched it, and which stood, in the old days, on the hall table upstairs. An arrangement of pipes, from the spout of the funnel, carried fumes into the kitchen flues above. The fire was laid with matchsticks and fed with assorted slack* and, as it burned up, the iron would become hot, and Homily would simmer soup on the spokes in a silver thimble, and Arrietty would broil nuts. "

It would make more sense if the cogwheel was vertical rather than the tradition view of it being horizontal, because the center hole of the gear is still the fireplace but its not in borrower terms an entire body length from the center.

Slack: Coal under 20mm or one's thumb in size used to keep a fire going overnight.