The phrase "a machine that carries" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a type of machine that transports or moves items from one place to another.
Example: "The factory uses a machine that carries raw materials from the storage area to the production line."
Alternatives: "a device that transports" or "an apparatus that moves".
However we might also imagine a machine that carries out an infinite sequence of actions or operations in an infinite machine proper time, but that the entire process can be seen by an observer in a finite amount of the observer's proper time.
It also seems entirely appropriate to have a machine that carries missiles to a target and comes back to be rearmed, but only if it means that it makes urination very difficult for at least one person.
But Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own".
By the third year of college, I have successfully trained my brain to become an analytical powerhouse, a reasoning machine that carries out deductive, logical, linear, scientific calculations, at lightening speed --- too fast for my soul to follow.
Machine M1 is a semi-automatic machine that carries out up to 29,000 injections per month November 20088).
Respirasome, a huge molecular machine that carries out cellular respiration, has gained growing attention since its discovery, because respiration is the most indispensable biological process in almost all living creatures.
There is also a Varietizer, a custom-built vending machine that carries about 23 of the regular Pop-Tart flavors (seasonal offerings, like pumpkin and gingerbread, are excluded for now).
The machine that carries out translation is the ribosome, a large RNA-protein complex whose structure is highly conserved in all kingdoms of life.
Even its radiant costumes and pageantry, including the machine that carries the fire-breathing performer known as Vesuvius, the Human Volcano, evoke futuristic fantasy as it might have been imagined by Jules Verne.
Whatever effect he has, the public face of Mr. Obama's campaigning masks a White House political operation that some Democrats say is not nearly as focused or driven as the machine that carried Mr. Obama to the presidency in the first place.
Somehow that Joad-like music seemed just right, though we never found ourselves searching for radiator water or camping in the ditches or cursing the foul machine that carried us west.
