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	Sump Winding engine at South Caradon
		The winding engine lies upslope of the shaft and in addition to winding at Sumps this engine provided power by flat rods to Pearce's shaft higher up the hill.A 22 inch horizontal engine was housed in this building (some sources state a 16/30").
		Horizontal engines did not require a substantial bob wall and the structure was therefore lighter than a traditional Cornish Engine house.
		The picture clearly shows that the sump shaft winding engine house was not a traditional Cornish beam engine structure.This was because it housed a 22" twin cylinder horizontal engine that did not require a beam and its supporting heavy bob wall.
	www.geocities.com /teammanley/southcaradon/SumpWind.htm (262 words)

	Brookhouse
		These windings consist of a self-excited field, a separately excited field regulated by the engineman's hand control lever and a differentially compounded field which is connected in series and is in opposition to the self-excited field during motoring conditions.
		The winding engine was examined by the investigators who found that the supply of electric power thereto was cut off, the brake solenoid was in the "Brakes On" position, and the overwind switch was open on the over-rope side of the automatic contrivance, a type C Lilly Controller.
		This means that the winding engine may be accelerated until it attains a speed just less than that permitted by the Controller and that it may run at that speed until the descending underlaprope cage is nearly 140 feet from the end of the wind.
	www.pitwork.net /brookhouse.htm (8218 words)

	Poynton Collieries: Technical Developments and the Main Pits
		The winding engine was erected at a cost of £669 by Stanley and Davies of Hyde and had two horizontal cylinders 22 inches in diameter with a 4 foot stroke.
		This engine was made by J.D. Leigh of Patricroft and had two horizontal cylinders 30 inches by 72 inches with four Cornish valves to each cylinder and plain winding drums of cast iron lagged with wood 16 feet in diameter for round ropes.
		During the sinking of the Lawrance shaft the Round Pit was deepened to 310 yards and used as the upcast and emergency shaft for the new pit.
	www.brocross.com /poynton/book/poyco5.htm (4563 words)

	Durham Miner Project - Coal Mining - A General History - Timeline
		This was used, with a Newcomen engine, at Walker Colliery to operate two rotary mine ventilators, as well as to assist a winding engine.
		The engine had a conical rope drum to assist winding and raised 6½ cwt of coal 492 feet in 2 minutes, a great improvement on the horse engine previously employed.
		Phineas Crowther, a Newcastle engineer, patented the single cylinder lever type vertical winding engine which was to become the principal type used in the North of England.
	www.durham.gov.uk /miner/projects.nsf/5327f58ef1ba2ce880256d4900438bc3/b50b1a1b64103daa80256e580033fcb0?OpenDocument (1581 words)

	Durham Mining Museum - Colliery Engineering
		The invention of the crank and other improvements to the steam engine ensured the successful application of steam for winding purposes, and from this time the introduction of steam winding engines was considerably accelerated.
		The increased adoption of the steam engine for winding, combined with the necessity for deeper shafts, accelerated the rate of improvement in the valve gear of winders during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
		The winding rope encircled about 190°-200° of the periphery of the "pulley." There was a balance rope beneath the cages, so that the arrangement, to all intents and purposes, was an endless rope, the cages being attached at two convenient points.
	www.dmm-gallery.org.uk /colleng/4305-01.htm (2355 words)

	I.A.Recordings: Industrial Site - Donisthorpe Colliery
		Engine: A horizontal twin cylinder (or duplex), steam winder.
		Winding was regulated to a maximum rope speed of 29ft.
		Methods: To operate the engine, the driver stood on a small wooden platform, with his foot on a foot brake (deadmans type), holding the steam regulator lever (throttle) in his left hand and the reversing lever in his right hand.
	www.iarecordings.org /donisthorpe.html (1502 words)

	Steam & Engine of Australia - The Donkey Engine
		The engine at left is working an arial tramway where logs are hoisted high into the air at the crown level of the trees then "flown" along a wire towards the donkey engine usually situated near some other form of transport such as a railroad or river.
		The engine at right is performing dragging duties where it hauls the log along the ground either to hand it off to another donkey situated somewhere else or some other form of transportation.
		Donkey engines were generally not used to haul timber to the actual mill except while the area around the mill is being cleared.
	www.steamengine.com.au /steam/sawmill/donkey (1205 words)

	BESTWOOD WINDING ENGINE HOUSE
		Bestwood Winding Engine House is all that remains today of the once extensive mining and metal refining complex of the Bestwood Coal and Iron Company.
		The pit was sunk in 1872 and the winding engine commissioned in 1876.
		The engine is a twin cylinder vertical winding engine built by R. and E. Coupe, Worsley Mesnes Ironworks, Wigan in 1876.
	www.fcrammond.clara.net /bestwood_winding_engine_house.htm (495 words)

	Elliot Colliery Winding House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Elliot Colliery Winding House and its magnificent Victorian steam winding engine, once lay at the heart of a thriving colliery.
		At the head of the east shaft stood the East Winding House, within which was a magnificent steam winding engine.
		Engine number 603 was originally a twin cylinder horizontal steam engine.
	www.caerphilly.gov.uk /visiting/museums/elliotcolliery.htm (422 words)

	About Levant Mine
		This beam winding engine (or whim to give it its Cornish term) is the sole surviving piece of machinery of the mine.
		The winding engine stands in the same house where it worked for 90 years, perched on the edge of the cliff, making it the most westerly steam engine in the country.
		The engine house was restored by the National Trust, whilst the engine itself was put back into running order by a group of Trevithick Society members (known as the Greasy Gang) over the years 1984 to 1992.
	www.trevithick-society.org.uk /levant.htm (535 words)

	The Levant Whim Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The engine house was restored by the National Trust, whilst the engine itself was put back into running order by a group of people known as the Greasy Gang of the Trevithick Society over the years 1984 to 1992.
		The twin winding drums outside the house are aligned with the shaft, being mounted on the crankshaft which passes through an opening in the west wall.
		The engine is recorded as raising a skip to surface in about 5 minutes with winding speeds of 400 ft per minute (120 m per minute); this required engine speeds of up to 28 revolutions per minute and a power peaking at 46 brake horse power.
	www.zawn.freeserve.co.uk /Levant.htm (1608 words)

	BBC - History - The Winding Gear mechanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		the winding gear is there to allow coal to be raised to the surface as well as to allow men to reach the pit face.
		Cages are normally suspended on a steel winding rope which is attached to the drum of the winding engine, via the pulley on the headgear.
		Winding gear can be seen at the Big Pit in Wales and the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery, West Yorkshire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/games/winding/winding.shtml (252 words)

	A Steam Dinosaur
		Today, the oldest known road engine is the Science Museum's 1870 Aveling and Porter traction engine, which was presented to the Museum by the Road Locomotive Society in 1950.
		Engines of this type were called 'chain engines' because drive to the wheels was by chain rather than by gears.
		The chain engine group are acutely aware of the need to preserve the old engine's historical identity, especially bearing in mind that the last hands to work on it were firmly in the Victorian age.
	www.ranger.demon.co.uk /aveling/aveling.htm (3523 words)

	Papplewick Linby Colliery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The two engines are connected to the Winding Drum that is 6' wide and 9' diameter.
		The engine could operate up to a maximum rope speed of 32' per second, raising 4 tons of coal per wind in an automatically operated skip giving a maximum capacity of 300 tons of coal per hour, from a depth of nearly 450ft.
		It is believed to be the only steam winding engine that is in use and powered by steam, in the UK at the moment.
	www.papplewickpumpingstation.co.uk /linby.htm (308 words)

	Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		(b) the contents of the shaft conveyance and the last signals received by the winding engine driver when his or her relief is about to take over, and such report shall be countersigned by the winding engine driver by whom he or she is relieved.
		(b) the winding engine driver and any station from which winding is carried on, but it shall not enable the banksman to signal on this arrangement to anyone but the winding engine driver.
		(b) any station from which winding is carried on, and shall also enable signals to be interchanged between the bank and any station from which winding is carried on, but it shall not enable the winding engine driver to transmit signals on this arrangement.
	www.mme.gov.na /mines/acts/act_safety_XIII.html (6618 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		DescriPtion Of The Prior Art: In a spark-ignition internal combustion engine, a flyback transformer is commonly used to generate the high voltage needed to create an arc across the gap of the spark plug igniting the fuel and air mixture.
		Ideally the magnetic performance of the spark ignition transformer is sufficient throughout the engine operation to sense the sparking condition in the combustion chamber.
		A jig to wind these coils was required to handle very fine wire (typically 39 gauge or higher), not significantly overlap these wires and not break the wire during the winding operation.
	www.wipo.int /cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=98/49697.981105&ELEMENT_SET=DECL (6219 words)

	Astley Green Colliery Museum: The Museum
		Amongst the exhibits housed in the Engine House is the largest steam winding engine ever used in the Lancashire Coalfield.
		The capstan engine is housed between the legs of the headgear.
		The emergency winder, which is trailer housing a winding drum and an 8 cylinder Gardner diesel engine, would be towed to collieries in the area when their main winding engine was out of commission.
	www.agcm.org.uk /museum.shtml (488 words)

	Tankerville
		On the east-side of the engine house are the remains of 6 ore bins - the bases of which are level with the shaft collar.
		On the west-side of the engine house at the end of the stone shaft top collar, is the intact boiler chimney, although only the rear walls of the boiler house survive.
		On the north-side of the shaft (opposite the engine house) in a stone tunnel is the balance bob pit.
	www.serve.com /~scmc/tankerville.html (1770 words)

	McBain Mine, Thorburn
		The winding drum is 14 feet 4.3m in diameter, and carries 3000 feet 915m of one inch 2.5cm iron rope of the best and most improved make.
		The fan engine is 24 × 36 61cm × 91cm, and runs a fan 30 feet 9.1m in diameter and 10 feet 3.1m wide, which, at 60 revolutions per minute will give from 60,000 to 70,000 cubic feet 1700 to 2000 cubic metres of air.
		When engine cylinder dimensions are given simply as two numbers without specifying which is stroke and which is bore, the universal practice was, and is, to state the bore first, followed by the stroke.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/mine01.html (1206 words)

	Swannington Incline
		The engine house and adjacent cottages were demolished and a local demolition contractor who began to fill the cutting purchased the site of the Incline from British Rail.
		These revealed the details of the pit in which the winding drum was mounted, the pit over which the engine was mounted, the pit in which the flywheel and band brake were located and the well in which the condenser was located.
		This excavation was carefully recorded both photographically and by measurements of the remains in an attempt to interpret the layout of the engine winding mechanism.
	www.swannington-heritage.co.uk /pages/incline.html (1808 words)

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		winding drum, thus hoisting and lowering a cage or skip by means of a
		The velocity at which a winding engine lifts a cage or skip in a shaft.
		The prevailing wind with its average strength is thereby revealed at a
	www.maden.hacettepe.edu.tr /dmmrt/dmmrt1346.html (862 words)

	Levant Tin Mine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This beam engine (or whim, to give it its Cornish term) is the sole surviving item of machinery of the mine.
		A plaque commemorating the contribution of the Society's late President, Jack Trounson, to the engine's rescue from scrap is displayed in the engine house.
		Today the engine is owned by the National Trust, having been handed over by the Society in 1967 along with other engines including Taylor's 90 inch pumping engine and Michell's 30 inch whim, both on display at East Pool, Camborne.
	www.nortonmede.com /levant/page1.htm (275 words)

	Bewstwood Winding Engine House Web Site
		The Winding Engine House of the old colliery still stands today next to the mine shaft.
		This impressive red brick building, with a slate roof, is quite unique as it still holds one of the only steam driven winding engines left that is in its original position.
		It is currently being restored by volunteers and it is hoped that it can be made open to the public in the future.
	bestwoodweh.tripod.com /history.html (387 words)

	Middleton Top Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This wonderful example of engineering from a bygone age is still operating and open for you to visit on regular open days from March to October.
		The Middleton Top Engine and Leawood Pump Group also look after the Leawood Pump which stands beside the Cromford Canal near Cromford.
		This is only a short distance from the Middleton Top Engine and can easily be visited on the same day.
	www.grant2222.freeserve.co.uk /mtlhp.htm (120 words)

	Staffordshire Past Track -Winstanley pit, winding engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The winding engines are the biggest power-consuming units at a colliery and share with the fan engine the responsibility for the lives of everyone underground.
		Installed in 1913, these engines were powerful enough to do the work required of them.
		They remained in service until they were replaced by an electric winding engine in September 1964.
	www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk /engine/resource?theme=280&originator=/engine/theme/default.asp&page=16&records=187&direction=1&pointer=12399&text=0&resource=7048 (184 words)

	BBC - History - Pit Winding Gear Animation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In deep mines, the winding gear was used to bring the coal to the surface, as well as to allow men to reach the pit face.
		Cages are normally suspended on a steel winding rope, attached to the drum of the winding engine via a pulley on the headgear (see below).
		On their way up and down the shaft, the cages are sometimes guided by steel ropes that are attached to the cross girders on the headgear.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/society_culture/industrialisation/launch_ani_winding_gear.shtml (295 words)

	Silksworth Colliery, Surface Buildings and Plant
		This engine was saved when the colliery closed and is now at the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish.
		All the water encountered was pumped out to the Hutton seam shaft bottom and into a dam from where the big pump in the Hutton seam Engine house pumped it to the surface and into the pit pond.
		c 1954 there was a serious accident when the winding rope broke on No 2 winding engine and the cage fell to the bottom of the shaft and went into the sump. The accident happened on a Saturday morning at about 4.00 a.m.
	www.mininginstitute.org.uk /papers/Silksworth.html (3452 words)

	Chapter Windage <i>to</i> Wineglass of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.
		A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight.
		In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1214/24531/2.html (288 words)

	The Cornish Engine House
		This is one of a pair of engine houses now restored by the National Trust, the other being Taylor's shaft pumping engine house a few hundred metres to the north across the main road.
		Another engine house (restored by the Trevithick Society) is the winding engine house at the Levant tin and copper mine near St Just on the Land's End peninsula.
		The winding engine house is the one on the left, the roofless house being the former pumping engine house for the Levant workings which extended some distance out to sea.
	www.users.bigpond.com /nqsearch/minehist/mining.html (1546 words)

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