Shear Beam Single Ended Load Cell.
The MCS-B Series comes complete with an easy-to-clean 11" (28cm) diameter white enamel plate suspended from chrome bows for laying meat in. These economical dial scales are built for heavy use and are popular with produce merchants, butchers, and grocers.
It has proven its value in such diverse jobs as mounting cables for bridges, adjusting tension on guy wires, field testing chain, rope, wire anything requiring precision force or tension measurement.