. Elements of technology :. mon iron ring is kept from movingsideways by guides, or frictionwheels, placed at each side. Breast Wheel.—The breast wheel is intermediate betweenthe overshot and undershot wheels, having the water deliveredupon it at about half its height, or at the ^. ^ level of its axis. In breast wheels inEngland, buckets are not commonlyemployed, but the floatboards arefitted accurately, with as little play aspossible, to the mill course, so thatthe water, after acting upon the float-boards by its impulse, is detained be-tween them in the mill course, andacts by its we
. Elements of technology :. mon iron ring is kept from movingsideways by guides, or frictionwheels, placed at each side. Breast Wheel.—The breast wheel is intermediate betweenthe overshot and undershot wheels, having the water deliveredupon it at about half its height, or at the ^. ^ level of its axis. In breast wheels inEngland, buckets are not commonlyemployed, but the floatboards arefitted accurately, with as little play aspossible, to the mill course, so thatthe water, after acting upon the float-boards by its impulse, is detained be-tween them in the mill course, andacts by its weight till it reaches the lowest part of tlie breast wheel is represented in Fig. 9, as it is often construct-ed in this country with buckets, instead of floats, and with apart of its circumference fitted to the mill course, or apron. Horizontal Wheel.—A horizontal wheel with oblique floats,sometimes called in this country a tub wheel, is turned by acurrent of water discharged against the floats in the manner re-.
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