Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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This is an industrial counter with printing mechanism that was part of a large textile processing machine by A. Monforts Maschinenfabrik. It is probably from the 1960s or 1970s.

Photo of August Monforts came from German Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0):
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Monforts

For more information about this and other machines in my collection, please visit my website:
jaapsch.net/mechcalc

0:00 Introduction
0:21 History
0:58 Counting
1:41 Printing
2:25 Clearing
3:06 Printing mechanism
4:13 Counter mechanism
5:14 Outro