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Record 1 2007-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Smelting (Metal Processing)
  • Casting and Patternmaking (Metal Processing)
  • Goldsmithing and Silversmithing
CONT

Pouring gate or basin : the widened cup-shaped opening or depression into which the molten metal is first poured. It is located at the top of the assembly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fusion (Transformation des métaux)
  • Moulage et modelage des métaux
  • Orfèvrerie et argenterie
CONT

Le métal en fusion versé dans le maître jet se répartit par les jets dans toutes les cavités qu'il remplit et dans lesquelles il se fige presque immédiatement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Grain Growing
CONT

A rollermill is really four(two pair) rollermills in one frame. The top roll of a pair is carried in fixed bearings but the bottom roll is supported by pivot arms which may be adjusted to vary the gap between the rolls. Adjusting the gap gives different degrees of grinding. Two smaller diameter rolls, called feed rolls, are set above the grinding rolls. The purpose of the feed rolls is to regulate the stream of material passing to the nip of the grinding rolls. A balanced feed gate ensures even distribution of stock along the full width of the rolls.

OBS

Mostly used in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

Un moulin à cylindres se compose en réalité de deux paires de cylindres dans un seul bâti. Le cylindre supérieur d'une paire repose sur des paliers fixes, tandis que le cylindre inférieur est porté par des bras articulés qui permettent de régler l'écartement entre les deux cylindres et d'obtenir ainsi différents degrés de broyage. Deux cylindres de plus petit diamètre, appelés cylindres d'alimentation et situés au-dessus des premiers, ont pour rôle de régulariser l'écoulement de la mouture sur les cylindres de broyage.

OBS

Utilisé le plus souvent au pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
  • Grain Growing
CONT

A rollermill is really four(two pair) rollermills in one frame. The top roll of a pair is carried in fixed bearings but the bottom roll is supported by pivot arms which may be adjusted to vary the gap between the rolls. Adjusting the gap gives different degrees of grinding. Two smaller diameter rolls, called feed rolls, are set above the grinding rolls. The purpose of the feed rolls is to regulate the stream of material passing to the nip of the grinding rolls. A balanced feed gate ensures even distribution of stock along the full width of the rolls. The purpose of the feed rolls is to regulate the stream of material passing to the nip of the grinding rolls. A balanced feed gate ensures even distribution of stock along the full width of the rolls.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Techniques industrielles
  • Culture des céréales
CONT

Un moulin à cylindres se compose en réalité de deux paires de cylindres dans un seul bâti. Le cylindre supérieur d'une paire repose sur des paliers fixes, tandis que le cylindre inférieur est porté par des bras articulés qui permettent de régler l'écartement entre les deux cylindres et d'obtenir ainsi différents degrés de broyage. Deux cylindres de plus petit diamètre, appelés cylindres d'alimentation et situés au-dessus des premiers, ont pour rôle de régulariser l'écoulement de la mouture sur les cylindres de broyage. Une vanne d'alimentation équilibrée assure un voile uniforme de mouture sur toute la longueur des cylindres. Des brosses de nettoyage montées sur le bâti du moulin à cylindres enlèvent les matières adhérant à la surface des cylindres de broyage.

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Locks (Canals)
DEF

A system of connected lock chambers in which the communicating gates serve in each case as tail gates for the next higher lock chamber, and as head gates for the next lower lock chamber.

CONT

Groups of locks are sometimes contracted into flights in which the bottom gate of one lock acts as the top gate of the next.... It is... advantageous to have a pair of flights of locks, one for up traffic and the other for down.

OBS

flight of locks: term used by Parks Canada.

Key term(s)
  • lock flight

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écluses
DEF

Succession d'écluses où chaque porte sert à l'écluse d'aval et à l'écluse d'amont.

CONT

[...] l'on a toujours la ressource de disposer plusieurs écluses en série pour constituer une échelle d'écluses.

OBS

échelle d'écluses : terme en usage à Parcs Canada.

Key term(s)
  • écluses étagées
  • écluses superposées

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Goldsmithing and Silversmithing
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Casting and Patternmaking (Metal Processing)
CONT

pouring gate or basin : the widened cup-shaped opening or depression into which the molten metal is first poured. It is located at the top of the assembly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Orfèvrerie et argenterie
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Moulage et modelage des métaux
CONT

(...) d'autres éléments indispensables au moulage: les noyaux; le trou de coulée, en forme d'entonnoir, pour recevoir le métal en fusion.

Spanish

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Record 6 1986-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Civil Engineering
  • Transport of Water (Water Supply)
DEF

A gate, installed in a dam to control the flow from a reservoir, consisting of a steel cylinder, open at the top and bottom, having a balanced water pressure on the inside and outside surfaces. The cylinder forms a seat over the opening and closes it when seated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie civil
  • Adduction d'eau (Alimentation en eau)
DEF

Vanne constituée essentiellement par un cylindre creux, ouvert en haut et en bas, placé sur le passage de l'eau.

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Civil Engineering
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A canal head gate through which the water passes from the river into the canal by discharging over the crest of a wall or the top edge of a gate or flashboards.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie civil
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Volet de faible hauteur placé au sommet des vannes ou d'une paroi entre deux passes pour évacuer la glace ou les corps flottants sans endommager la vanne principale.

Spanish

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