I know what it looks like to me....
From the looks of it, I'd say it's a Schlenk line. The reason I call it Schlenk is because that's the type of glassware used when you don't want air in your reaction, because of the materials' high reactivity with oxygen and/or water. It may just be a vacuum line with several ports, but with all those valves, I'd say you could use it to evacuate a flask, then back-fill it with an inert gas. The long piece of glass on the bottom near the pump is a trap, which is normally cooled, to prevent any solvents from getting into the pump oil, and to prevent pump oil fumes from going up into the vacuum line.
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