De Kievit, Menaldum of the "upright shaft" there are two "crown wheels" The upper "crown wheel", which has 35 cogs drives an Archimedes' screw via a "crown wheel". This screw was used to pump water into the polder. The lower "crown wheel", which has 35 cogs, drives a gearwheel with 32 cogs on the axle of an Archimedes' screw, which was used to drain the polder. The axle of the screw is diameter and long. The screw is diameter. It is inclined at 10°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water. "De Kievit" is open to the public at any time it
Screw conveyor Screw conveyor A screw conveyor or auger conveyor is a mechanism that uses a rotating helical screw blade, called a ""flighting"", usually within a tube, to move liquid or granular materials. They are used in many bulk handling industries. Screw conveyors in modern industry are often used horizontally or at a slight incline as an efficient way to move semi-solid materials, including food waste, wood chips, aggregates, cereal grains, animal feed, boiler ash, meat and bone meal, municipal solid waste, and many others. The first type of screw conveyor was the Archimedes' screw, used since ancient times to pump irrigation