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Mamre Mill, the silent feed to the stones
Drawing of the silent feed to the stones employed at Mamre mill, depicting detail of a section and a rotating toothed wheel.
Cast iron wallowers
Drawing of cast iron wallowers at Deeze Hoek (Piquetberg) and Compagne's Drift (Bot River, Caledon).
Gear systems of various mills
Drawing of gear systems, depicting detail of 'Vitruvian' drives: (a) Verloren Vallei, Ceres (a lantern and a bridge-tree) and (b) Deeze Hoek, Piketberg (a wallower and a bridge-tree), Spur-wheel drives: (c) Elim, Bredasdorp ...
Suggested restoration of water-wheel
Drawing of the suggested restoration of a water-wheel, depicting detail of a wooden trough (launder), a 3 in x 4 in spoke, a trough, 4 iron bars, a shaft, a mill wall and a pit wheel. Details are also provided of a section ...
Rotary-querns
Drawings of rotary querns, depicting detail of Cedarberg, Roodeheuvel (Uniondale) and Rotterdam (Swellendam).
Elim Mill, control of the water-supply
Drawing of the control of the water-supply at Elim mill, depicting detail of an overflow penstock, a mill-pond, an overflow, a pivoted sluice, a penstock, a head-race or leat, a flood-hatch, a wooden launder, flume or lade, ...
Vitruvius's mill
Drawing of Vitruvius's mill, depicting detail of an undershot water-wheel, a pit-wheel, an axle-tree, a wallower, a rynd, a runner-stone and a bedstone.
Sections of rotary-querns
Drawings of sections of rotary querns, depicting detail of a Namaqualand rotary quern (existing of a bedstone, a runner, grain, a stone, a wooden handle and a meal), a Cedarberg rotary quern (existing of a bedstone, a ...