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The Millstone Furniture
The millstone furniture consists of a
hopper, horse and shoe
assembly, and a wooden hoop (also called
a case or a vat or a tun) surrounding the
millstones upon which this assembly sits.
The hopper is a large square wooden
“funnel” that collects the grain from a chute
above and guides the grain onto the shoe. The
hopper sits on the horse which is a wooden frame
which supports it and the shoe.


Hopper
Horse
The front of the shoe is raised up or down by a
crook line attached to the crook peg.
When the crook line is tightened, the angle of
the shoe is decreased and less grain flows into
the eye of the stone.
The shoe is vibrated by means of the damsel
which rotates with the runner stone and raps
against the side of the shoe as it rotates. A
wooden spring on the horse applies pressure to
the shoe against the damsel as the stone
rotates. The damsel strikes the rap on
the shoe as it rotates.
 
Horse
Shoe
 
Damsel
Wooden Spring
Crook Line
The case is a large cylindrical wooden
container which collects the grist which emerges
at the periphery between the stones.
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