The phrase "a device for making" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a tool or instrument designed for a specific purpose or function.
Example: "The new gadget is a device for making smoothies quickly and efficiently."
Alternatives: "a tool for creating" or "an instrument for producing".
The Ptolemaic system was intended as a device for making calculations, not as a picture of the universe.
In a sense, the Farnsworth House has become less a device for living and more a device for making people think about the ways we choose to live.
Green recalled having debated the conservative labor economist Lawrence Mead and denouncing the idea of workfare as a device for making the poor "dance for their supper".
Classification is precisely the appeal to such principles; it is a device for making the otherwise unmanageable wealth of religious phenomena intelligible and orderly.
Econnect, which makes a device for making secure Internet purchases, settled a breach of contract lawsuit filed by its former president, Stephen Pazian, for about $1 million, according to a regulatory filing.
Borislow, who invented a device for making inexpensive phone calls, has tied up the league in court, winning a recent decision in which the judge said W.P.S. had not followed its own bylaws in dropping the magicJack franchise.
Technologies that transform a cellphone into a simple device for making payments are finding their way into the marketplace in Europe and Asia, and soon will be seen as a convenient banking tool here.
Adapted by William Boyd from his own novel, this tale of secret service intrigue flipped back and forth between the war years and 1976 without ever establishing a credible device for making the transitions.
This throwback is an efficient device for making pressed grilled sandwiches that some people may remember from decades ago, just as Janice Feigenbaum and her sister, Susan Caldwell, do.
This movie is just a shiny, sparkly device for making money; it's like watching a slot machine.
The recording system consists of a 3D Multiplexer/DeMultiplexer device for making one channel image from two channels images of the left and right channel, and vice versa [10].
