Some light hints that may point you in the right direction:

Hint 1

The assembly is a part of a larger machine.

Hint 2

Several assemblies are meant to move side by side in unison.

Hint 3

The square-ish shaped piece is plastic that will wear down and be replaced.

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Does this push paper along a track or converor by its edge? For like a newspaper or something?

    • Bubs@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Spot on.

      Answer

      It’s for pushing mail into an envelope. Three or four of them work in unison to push a stack of papers/inserts into an envelope.

        • Bubs@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          I figured it would be a tough one.

          These are mail insertion machines I worked on for several months as a mechanic. It’s a little blurry since that were moving, but here it is in action:

          • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            25 minutes ago

            That’s cool. Never seen anything like that. I love big industrial machines that exist only to recreate an action a single human can do easily lol