Title: Sarehole Mill
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flour bin boulter bolt pulley top pulley water wheel mill stones gears corn sack boulter

Boulter

This is a sieving machine, spun round at high speed by the water wheel. The energy gets to it through a belt and a pulley. It works in the same way as a spin drier. The bran is spun out, leaving the flour to drop down to the flour bins on the ground floor.

Water wheel. Gears. Top pulley. Corn sack. Mill stones. Bolt pulley. Boulter. Flour bin.