The phrase "a contraption consisting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a device or mechanism that is made up of various components or parts.
Example: "The inventor showcased a contraption consisting of gears, levers, and pulleys that could lift heavy objects with ease."
Alternatives: "a device made up of" or "an apparatus composed of".
Instead of playing as Donkey Kong, you control a contraption consisting of your Mii in a plastic bubble, above two wheels attached by springs.
The collaboration, working at the Gran Sasso laboratory, set out to detect WIMPs with a contraption consisting of nine 9.7-kilogram crystals of doped sodium iodide--a material that generates a flash of light when one of its nuclei or electrons recoils after interacting with another particle.
In Italy, the meat would next be hand cut, but Mr. Bertolli uses a German contraption consisting of a spinning bowl with a rotary knife whirling vertically inside it.
High points included "Artificial Gravity," in which the company executed neat patterns on a devilish floor contraption consisting of inner and outer circles turning at different speeds.
The Ford carnival contraption consists of 12 Sparco racing seats mounted around a circular elevator that rises 20 feet into a celestial theater-in-the-round — the Cobo cloud, as it were.
A video of the drones in action can be seen below.The contraptions consist of a single wing about five feet (1.5 metres) long, which points skywards for takeoff and then rotates to a horizontal position as it speeds away.
This zoo has a contraption called the crush, which consists of hydraulic barred wall which confine the animals, painlessly, for care.
Strictly speaking, it should be called a tricycle taxi, since it consists of a strong-thighed young man — there seem to be few women in the guild — on a contraption with a saddle and one wheel in front, pulling a small calèche that rides along on two wheels in back.
It looked like a contraption a wedding photographer might use.
It's quite a contraption to assemble and manipulate.
