"Heath Robinsonesque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)",
          "text": "Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette."
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