It is from this flume that the penstock draws water for the wheel.
Water is supplied to this wheel by a wooden penstock 33 inches square, inside measurements, and sloping at an angle of 30° from the flume to the wheel.
In small installations of low head, such as above a penstock at least six times the nozzle capacity should be used, to avoid losing effective head from friction.
The idea had been suggested by a counter shaft which still hung from the ceiling, and they had discovered that the old mill wheel would still roll over if the penstock were repaired.
We construct a penstock p and install a water-wheel, S, to operate a mill.
Adjoining the engine-well are the grating tank andpenstock chamber, and with these the principal main sewer communicates.
Miss Penstock had always spoken with a certain sort of tender reverence to Nat, and I remembered that he liked to be in the room where she sewed.
Since then, Miss Penstock had sometimes consented to go for a few days at a time to sew in the houses of her favorite employers, just to keep from forgetting how to speak,' the poor little woman said.
Then he told him that the sum which it would need to support him and Miss Penstock and Patrick in this way was so small, in comparison with our whole income, that it was not worth mentioning.
Nat and Miss Penstock and Patrick were in Mr. Maynard's carriage, and Robert and I stood on the ground by the carriage-door.
Patrick is with him, his devoted servant, and Miss Penstock has gone to keep house for them.
I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
In a cavern under the falls was the great turbine, to be full-fed by the crude but tight penstockwhich clung to the wall of the gorge, angling up to the brink of that stupendous cataract.
I gasped; and then I was silent, and hearing a loud ejaculation, as I felt the wood of the penstock tremble.
I would get my knees on the penstock again, and then by main force drag him out, at all events into a sitting position, where I could hold him against the post while he recovered sufficiently to walk to the shore.
At the bottom of the penstock is placed a turbine wheel fixed on a shaft, and to which shaft is connected an electric generator or other power machine.
Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed.
The perimeter of the wheel has blades, and the whole is enclosed within a drum, so that water from the penstock will rush through the tangentially-formed conduit into the drum, and strike the blades of the wheel.
If there should be a head or height of water column of seven feet, the pressure on each square inch of water at the bottom of the penstock would be three pounds to the square inch.
Galvanized piping for a farm penstock is not necessarily expensive.
The penstock may be vertical or placed on a slant.
It is not a difficult engineering feat to throw a dam across a small stream and take the water out into a penstock to supply water to a turbine water-wheel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penstock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chute; floodgate; gate; guide; gutter; lock; penstock; shoot; sluice; trough
