I’m going to guess that’s an industrial-grade ribbon curler! Or, if leather can be curled, I’ll guess it’s for curling leather strips.
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Portable “Thing-a-ma-bob”. Alternatively known as a “What-cha-ma-call-it”.
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How about a film splicer.
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Close – but nope 
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Hmmmm – no – but I bet you could use film in it 
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Is it a film splicer?
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No
Think Christmas…
A machine that makes bows out of ribbon?
An industrial-grade ribbon bower?
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Some kinda machine for packing up live Christmas trees for people to take home?
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Woo!! 
I can sorta see/imagine how it works, but I’d love to see it in action! What’s it called? (so I can Google it later)
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Some type of skyving tool?
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japanese spring hammer
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here’s a fun one, since the japanese equipment is more up my alley (and something i know a bit about)…
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Drop forge?
not quite, but in a similar vein
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You are too good at this!
Correct, again.
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Some type of link forge for chains?