Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 198

Chai Lin arranged for craftsmen to bring over a steel crusher, opened the cover of the machine compartment, and let the craftsmen see the internal structure.

"Everyone is a mechanical craftsman. This is a pulverizer. Can you understand this mechanism?"

Everyone looked at it for a while, the structure is very simple, the space inside the warehouse made of steel is very small, there are four irregular steel sheets on the rotating shaft, the lower part is a steel fine mesh sieve, the sieve is very fine.

Hu Youcai said, "Villa Master, let me see if it's right."

Chailin said, "Just tell me."

Hu Youcai closed the grinder and said, "This is the hopper. Grain enters the crushing bin slowly from the hopper, and the steel sheet inside rotates to crush the grain. The fine powder comes out from the outlet below, and the coarse residue comes out from the other." Come out of the outlet."

Another craftsman sprinkled a handful of barley into the crushing bin, and then turned the outer axle by hand, and the crushing iron pieces in the bin began to rotate, but the crushing effect was not achieved at all.

"Why doesn't this work? It's not as good as stone grinding." The craftsman said.

Chai Lin said: "You are very right. If this grinder uses human power to use a stone mill, it will be far worse than the stone mill. The speed is too low. It can't grind grain like this. But if you use the power of a potted machine, it will be different. Everyone have a look."

Chailin stopped the potted machine, fixed the grinder, and connected the large flywheel of the potted machine with the shaft of the grinder with three belts. The distance was adjusted appropriately, and the belt was stretched very tightly.

Someone brought over a bucket of wheat, and prepared a bag to tie it up at the discharge port.

Turn on the pot machine, the huge flywheel rotates, and the bearing of the crusher is driven to rotate slowly through the belt.The flywheel of the steam engine is huge, and for one revolution of the flywheel, the shaft of the pulverizer can make twenty revolutions.With the rapid rotation of the flywheel, the speed of the pulverizer has reached thousands of revolutions.

A craftsman slowly poured the barley into the grinder according to Chailin's request. A barrel of barley weighed dozens of catties, and it was crushed cleanly in a short while, with flour on one side and bran on the other.

Everyone was stunned, the speed was so fast, a pulverizer could keep up with the speed of a dozen donkeys grinding flour with a stone mill.

Hu Youcai said: "Does the owner want us to build pots and camel machines?"

Chailin shook his head.

Hu Youcai said again: "Does the owner want us to build a pulverizer?"

Chailin shook his head again.

"Then what is the mission given to us by the owner?" Hu Youcai asked puzzled.

"Whether it's a pot machine or a grinder, you can't make it. I want you to learn to operate this machine safely. Although the machine is easy to use, there are dangers. For example, when crushing grain, you must use a shed without walls. Do it inside, because too much dust will cause accidents. The parts of the machine during work should not be easily touched, especially the belt, flywheel, etc. Once touched, it will cause injuries and fractures, and death on the spot if it is serious.” Chai Lin As he spoke, he threw a twig onto the belt, and the twig was instantly crushed by the belt.

Hu Youcai said: "I'll make a detachable belt cover, it's safer.

"Ah."

Chailin dictated it, and Hu Youcai sorted it out, and made a manual for the operation of the pot camel machine.

Including how to add firewood, how to add water, how to park and fix, how to connect the belt, etc., have made detailed regulations.

Technology is the first factor in the development of productivity. The speed of this small pot camel machine to crush grain is about the same as that of fifteen donkeys.Moreover, the durability of the machine is much stronger than that of livestock, so it is suitable for higher-intensity work.

There used to be as many as [-] donkeys that crushed feed for pig farms. Now, two pot machines and two grinders can be used to complete the job.

In the future, many workshops will use the pot machine as the power source, so the operation and use of the pot machine must be standardized.Chai Lin trained five people from the craftsmen of Tiangong Second Battalion as the operators of the camel machine, and they will be responsible for training more managers of the camel machine in the future.

Hu Youcai was completely fascinated by the machine, wishing to get in and see what happened.

"Master, this machine can burn wood and generate steam, is it working normally?" Hu Youcai asked.

"You can try it. These days, there are tens of thousands of catties of aged barley that need coarse powder to feed pigs and horses, and I will leave it to you to operate. You can try in many ways, but you can't mess around, do you understand?" Chailin Arrangement said.

"Understood, I promise not to mess around."

"In addition, you designed a reed crusher, which is a machine for crushing dry reeds into slag." Chailin said.

Hu Youcai asked, "What can the crushed reed do?"

"It's very useful for straw paper. Of course, crushing is only the first step, and the second step needs to be soaked and then beaten." After speaking, Chai Lin left.

Chai Lin is busy with work and needs to build a few more pot machines.

Tens of thousands of catties of barley, just one grinder, will take several days to dry.

As soon as Chai Lin left, Hu Youcai started to mess around.

Hu Youcai said: "Go quickly to the hand washing machine factory and bring some discarded and unused wood."

"Ok."

Soon the two of them went over and got hundreds of catties of wood scraps, which were used for burning fire.

Huyou stopped adding coal and switched to wood.

The machine pauses, then starts again.

The machine was obviously slower than before, and the crushing speed also slowed down, but it didn't delay its use.

After a series of experiments, Hu Youcai understood the principle. Coal burns vigorously and produces more steam, so the power of the pot machine is strong. After changing to burning wood, more wood is added, and the power is weaker, but it has no effect. Normal use.

If the power of burning coal is ten, the power of burning wood is eight.

A craftsman asked: "Commander Hu, what is the use of our experiment?"

"Or you are just a log, think about it. If this machine can only burn coal, it will be a big trouble, because not all places have coal. But it is different if you can burn wood. The world is so big, There is wood in almost all places, which is different, and the camel machine will be more useful.” Hu Youcai said.

After several days of actual measurement, the small grinder driven by the Guotuo machine can crush [-] catties of barley per hour. Because it is coarse powder, the speed is relatively fast, and even fine powder can crush [-] catties per hour. Jin, easily work six thousand catties of barley a day.

Hu Youcai referred to this small shredder and began to draw a design. This is a reed shredder.The actual change is not big. The upper feed port was changed to the side feed port, and the feed port is also large. The design is a feed port with a width of [-] cm and a height of [-] cm.The crushing bin is also relatively large, and eight crushing hammers are set inside. This is the first step to make coarse powder, and the dried reeds are dried and leaves are removed and crushed in bundles.

The design of this machine is very large. According to Hu Youcai's estimate, such a large grinder, powered by a potted machine, can grind at least [-] catties of reeds in one hour.Reeds are very foamy, and they can be stored easily after being crushed and bagged. Of course, this is a theoretical speed, and the actual speed will only be known after it is manufactured.

Besides, what did Chai Lin do? Chai Lin went back and used the metal factory to produce a pot machine and a shaft-driven propeller again.This time it was going to be mounted on the tail of the centipede boat, so there was no need to add wheels, so it was directly pulled by a carriage and called Yu Hao and other senior carpenters to drive to Dinghai Port in Haijiazhuang.

(End of this chapter)