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Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting / history of steel making | | German term or phrase: Flutkasten | 1880 plante X, Flutkasten und Hammerrad des Hammers in der Gemeinde YY zu erhöhen, um dadurch die Wasserkraft zu verstärken.
This is in the context of hammer mills having storage ponds in an areas above their mills to make them less dependent on the seasonal fluctuations of the local rivers. |
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| | sluice box/flume | Explanation:
That's what it looks like to me.
Vom Weg aus, der an der Nord-Seite des Schaafenkottens vorbei führt, ist links neben dem hölzernen Steg der Abfluss zu erkennen. Von dort aus wird das Wasser aus dem verbreiterten Obergraben über die aus Betonplatten gebaute Zuleitung (den früher sog. Flutkasten) heute nicht mehr zum Wasserrad, sondern durch ein Fallrohr zu einer Turbine geführt. Die Turbine mit ihrem gusseisernen Gehäuse ist in einem separaten Raum neben dem Wohnhaus untergebracht, dort, wo sich früher das riesige Wasserrad befand.
Durch dieses Fallrohr wird das Wasser vom Einlauf (Flutkasten) auf die Turbine geleitet.
Foto: Wettschereck 2004.
http://www.zeitspurensuche.de/02/koti17s2.htm
Typically, water is diverted from a river or impoundment or mill pond to a turbine or water wheel, along a channel or pipe (variously known as a flume, head race, mill race, leat, leet,[32] lade (Scots) or penstock).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermill
A "FLUME," "SLUICE" or "PEN STOCK" carries the water at an elevated level above ground to the water wheel. Flumes are either open or closed, while a pen stock is in the form of water tight pipe. Pen stocks are either cast iron pipe, sheet iron pipe, concrete pipe, or the traditional wooden pipe. Later mills had dams with water being led to the wheel by a short race or flume. After the water flows through the water wheel it is then returned to the stream below the mill. It flows through a "TAIL RACE."
At least two outlets are required for each dam. The first is the spill way which allows the surplus water to flow past and over the dam once the pond is full. The second is where the water will flow to the mill via a mill race, flume, or sluice. This second outlet can be a simple ditch, often lined with stone or wood, or may be a complex wooden stave flume or plank box sluice.
1. Head race: a) in ground mill races- earthen, earthen lined with stone, wood or brick; b) elevated or buried channels; c) wooden sluice box; d) pen stock, either round wooden pipe, concrete pipe, round masonry stone or brick, or metal pipe of either sheet metal or cast iron pipe.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/site.html
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Flume- a trough or channel which carries water from the head race to the point where the water strikes or enters the water wheel. Also called sluice way, sluice box or lade.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/glossary.html
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21 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 sluice box/flume
Explanation:
That's what it looks like to me.
Vom Weg aus, der an der Nord-Seite des Schaafenkottens vorbei führt, ist links neben dem hölzernen Steg der Abfluss zu erkennen. Von dort aus wird das Wasser aus dem verbreiterten Obergraben über die aus Betonplatten gebaute Zuleitung (den früher sog. Flutkasten) heute nicht mehr zum Wasserrad, sondern durch ein Fallrohr zu einer Turbine geführt. Die Turbine mit ihrem gusseisernen Gehäuse ist in einem separaten Raum neben dem Wohnhaus untergebracht, dort, wo sich früher das riesige Wasserrad befand.
Durch dieses Fallrohr wird das Wasser vom Einlauf (Flutkasten) auf die Turbine geleitet.
Foto: Wettschereck 2004.
http://www.zeitspurensuche.de/02/koti17s2.htm
Typically, water is diverted from a river or impoundment or mill pond to a turbine or water wheel, along a channel or pipe (variously known as a flume, head race, mill race, leat, leet,[32] lade (Scots) or penstock).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermill
A "FLUME," "SLUICE" or "PEN STOCK" carries the water at an elevated level above ground to the water wheel. Flumes are either open or closed, while a pen stock is in the form of water tight pipe. Pen stocks are either cast iron pipe, sheet iron pipe, concrete pipe, or the traditional wooden pipe. Later mills had dams with water being led to the wheel by a short race or flume. After the water flows through the water wheel it is then returned to the stream below the mill. It flows through a "TAIL RACE."
At least two outlets are required for each dam. The first is the spill way which allows the surplus water to flow past and over the dam once the pond is full. The second is where the water will flow to the mill via a mill race, flume, or sluice. This second outlet can be a simple ditch, often lined with stone or wood, or may be a complex wooden stave flume or plank box sluice.
1. Head race: a) in ground mill races- earthen, earthen lined with stone, wood or brick; b) elevated or buried channels; c) wooden sluice box; d) pen stock, either round wooden pipe, concrete pipe, round masonry stone or brick, or metal pipe of either sheet metal or cast iron pipe.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millrestoration/site.html
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Note added at 28 mins (2009-11-20 14:28:22 GMT)
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Flume- a trough or channel which carries water from the head race to the point where the water strikes or enters the water wheel. Also called sluice way, sluice box or lade.
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/pondlilymill/glossary.html
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