Windmill Valea Nucarilor, Tulcea
The mill from the Nucarilor Valley, Tulcea County, dating from the second half of the 19th century, was transferred and reassembled in the museum in 1965. It was built on a tall, truncated stone, which raises the mechanism of wind energy above the ground. This system ensures increased efficiency, the winds being stronger at height. The Morii house has the skeleton from the oak, and the walls and the cover of fir planks.
The mill operates on the principle of direct transmission, the whole mechanism being set in motion by the energy of the wind captured by the four wings, thus rotating the axis on which they are fixed. Through a gear wheel ("with measures") and a device called "lantern", the rotation movement in the horizontal plane is transmitted to the vertical axis caught in the moving (or running) stone. The grains flow from the basket suspended above the stones in a bucket automatically shaken by rotating the spindle and, from here, between the stones. Subsequently, the flour flows in the crate.
