Not a working mill, but it still looks good in this shopping area.
It appears to be a Baker Windmill
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Still scattered across the plains and prairies of North America, the Baker Direct Stroke was the first steel windmill produced by the Heller-Aller Company of Napoleon, Ohio, one of the handful of currently active windmill manufacturers remaining. The mills made in 8', 10', and 12' sizes are among the few early steel direct stroke mills which have survived in sufficient numbers to be spotted in the field today.
The Heller-Aller Company traces it origin to 1886, when Samuel M. Heller and Frederick Aller joined in a partnership to manufacture windmills and water supply equipment, under the name of Heller-Aller & Company. Their first windmill, patented by Fred A. Baker on November 9, 1886, was a wooden wheel design, but by 1889, the makers had produced the initial Baker Direct Stroke steel mill. It remained in production with only slight design changes into the 1920's when it was replaced by the self-oiling Baker Run-in-Oil windmill. In 1904, the firm was incorporated as the Heller-Aller Company, the corporate title it has used to this day.
Wheel construction on the Baker is very striking. Its wheel rims support more and narrower blades than were used on most of its competitors. Whereas the 10' 1898 Aermotor steel mill had only eighteen blades, the contemporary 10' Baker Direct Stroke uses forty-eight...almost three times as many. The manufacturer claimed superiority in the large number of blades used, "as it is evident that the more sails used the stronger will be the structure and more evenly will the wind pressure be distributed over the wheel." Because the wheel with many blades presents a narrow profile when turned edgewise to the wind on the off position, it does not have the tendency to feather in the wind, and consequently no brake is required.
The Baker vane consists of two pieces of galvanized sheet steel cut into shape and reinforced with crimped edges. These two sheets are attached to each other by several vertical steel girts which then are bolted to a gas pipe vane stem mounted on a vane hinged on the main casting. A diagonal steel brace from the top of the hinge adds strength to the vane assembly. All steel parts of the mill which are exposed to the weather were hot dipped galvanized at the factory, and decorative paint trim was added, the blade receiving red tips and the vane being stenciled in black with the name of the model and manufacturer, with a red band around the edge.
Introduced in 1923, the Baker Run-in-Oil steel windmill is one of the few model water-pumping windmills that continues to be manufactured in the US, initially made in both back geared and direct stroke styles. It is an oil bath mill in which all moving parts operating in lubricant contained in the oil reservoir formed by the main casting. Throughout the years, numerous sizes of the Baker Run-in-Oil mills have been available. At various times the back geared mills have been made in 6' , 6.5', 7', 8', 10' and 14' sizes. The direct stroke self oiling mills were made in 8' and 10' sizes only.
Governing on the Run-in-Oil is on the same principal used on the Baker Direct Stroke. The wheel is set slightly to one side so that it automatically inclines away from increasing wind which slows the rotation of the wheel, and increases the tension on a oiled spring. When the wind subsides, this tension pulls the wheel back to a position at the right angel to the vane and more squarely faces the wind.
Today, the Baker Run-in-Oil windmill remains a common sight not only in rural America, but also in many parts of Canada and countries overseas. From its distinctive design it is quite easy to identify the Baker Run-in-Oil mill, but is is difficult from the ground to distinguish between the back geared and direct stroke mills.