 A sluice is a water channel that is controlled at its head by a gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wooden or metal plate which slides in grooves in the sides of the channel. Sluice gates are commonly used to control water levels and flow rates in rivers and canals. They are also used in wastewater treatment plants. Image File history File linksMetadata Sluice_gates-KayEss-1. ...
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Henley-on-Thames from by the playground near the Rail Station River Thames, the five arched bridge and Leander Club (to the far left) Henley-on-Thames is a town on the north side of the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, about 10 miles downstream and north-east from...
The Thames (pronounced //) is a river flowing through southern England, and one of the major waterways in England. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x1792, 508 KB)[edit] Summary A wooden sluice in Magome, Japan, used to power a waterwheel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x1792, 508 KB)[edit] Summary A wooden sluice in Magome, Japan, used to power a waterwheel. ...
Magome (馬籠) was one of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, an ancient road that connected Kyoto and Edo. ...
An overshot water wheel standing 42 feet high powers the Old Mill at Berry College in Rome, Georgia A water wheel (also waterwheel, Norse mill, Persian wheel or noria) is a hydropower system; a system for extracting power from a flow of water. ...
This bridge across the Danube River links Hungary with Slovakia. ...
The Canal du Midi, Toulouse, France Canals are man-made channels for water. ...
Operation Raising a sluice gate allows water to flow under it. (The term sluice gate refers to any gate that operates by allowing water to flow under it.) When a sluice gate is fully lowered, water sometimes spills over the top, in which case the gate operates as a weir. The bridge and weir mechanism at Sturminster Newton on the River Stour, Dorset. ...
Usually a mechanism drives the sluice gate up or down. This may be a simple, hand-operated, worm drive or rack and pinion drive, or it may be electrically or hydraulically powered. Rack and pinion animation A rack and pinion is a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion. ...
Table of Hydraulics and Hydrostatics, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...
The gates of a lock may work in a way similar to the way a sluice gate works, but traditional canal lock gates are hinged to swing like double doors. Canal locks in England. ...
Types of sluice gates - flap sluice gate — a fully automatic type, which is controlled by the pressure head across it. It is a gate hinged at the top. When pressure is from one side, the gate is kept closed. A pressure from the other side opens the sluice when a threshold pressure is surpassed.
- vertical rising sluice gate — a plate sliding in the vertical direction, controlled by machinery.
- radial sluice gate — a structure, where a small part of a cylindrical surface serves as the gate, supported by radial constructions going through the cylinder's radius. Occasionally a counterweight is provided.
- rising sector sluice gate — also a part of a cylindrical surface, which rests at the bottom of the channel and rises by rotating around its centre.
- needle sluice — a sluice formed by a number of thin needles held against a solid frame through water pressure as in a needle dam.
Needle dam in the Reuss River in Lucerne, Switzerland A needle dam is a weir designed to maintain the level or flow of a river through the use of thin needles of wood. ...
See also Canal locks in England. ...
Tokyo floodgates to protect from typhoon surges. ...
A boat is passing through the lock on the way to the Baltic sea. ...
External links - Soar Valley Sluice Gates
- Salt/Fresh water separating Sluice Complex (Part of DeltaWorks)
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