Definition of Windshaft. Meaning of Windshaft. Synonyms of Windshaft

- The Windshaft is a part in a windmill that carries the sails and also the brake wheel (Smock and Tower mills, and in some Post mills) or the head wheel...
- lightning and on 5 January 1900 the windshaft snapped at the neck and the sails crashed to the ground. A windshaft from a post mill near Maldon was ****ed...
- Minister) Charles Haughey. Nowadays again wheat is ground. The wooden windshaft has a one-ton stock housing cast. The mill has wings of 18.29 meters (60...
- to a mechanical device. The sails are carried on the horizontal windshaft. Windshafts can be wholly made of wood, wood with a cast iron pole end (where...
- in a Smock or Tower mill, and in some post mills. It is carried on the Windshaft and drives the Wallower on the Upright Shaft Buck The Buck is an East-Anglian...
- loaded lever which in turn pulls a set of wooden blocks tightly around the windshaft (the shaft the sails are mounted on). This brake design which is similar...
- two-storey roundhouse. It has four spring sails carried on a cast iron windshaft and is winded by a roof-mounted fantail. It is one of only two surviving...
- It last worked with four double Patent sails carried on a cast-iron windshaft. The cap was winded by a hand wheel. The single storey octagonal brick...
- was modernised. The common sails were replaced by patents; the wooden windshaft replaced by a cast-iron one; the layout of the millstones changed from...
- are generally referred to by the plane of rotation of the main axle (windshaft). Thus a horizontal mill may also be described as a "vertical-axis windmill"...