Chapter 115: Entering the Textile Industry
Chaiper's body was hung on the wall for five days and then taken down. Only his servant was still hanging there.
Archduke Byrne wrote a personal letter to Baron Wesson, saying that plain water is more nutritious than boiled water.
Writing a letter only showed that Archduke Byrne paid personal attention to the matter, and the key content was still conveyed orally by the messenger.
The request of Archduke Byrne was simple. After all, Chaiper was a member of the Wittelsbach family and did not want his body to be treated like this.
Frederick did not dwell on the matter and agreed to the envoy's redemption of Chaiper's body.
He has more important things to do. At the monthly meeting of Wesenland’s top management, Dominic, who performed very well in this case, was ordered to form a police station to prevent, stop and investigate illegal crimes. activities, and the function of maintaining public security and order was separated from the Executive Yuan, the military and the courts and handed over to the police.
At the same time, he established the Education Bureau and appointed Arms as Education Officer, August and Herbart as Education Undersecretaries, in charge of the education work in Weisenland.
These three people often dominate the education section of "Wesson Daily" and often communicate in private. Now they are very happy to work together on official matters and are ready to make great achievements here.
At the meeting, Administrator Frick proposed to set up a special financial bureau to manage Wesson's money bag.
In his private words, now that the government has so many more departments, each department's grabbing of the budget is enough to give him a headache to death. It is better to separate this function and let others have a headache.
Frederick agreed to Frick's suggestion, but there was currently no talent in this field in the territory, so he would first serve as financial officer.
Frick's face twitched after receiving the appointment, and he subconsciously looked at the medical officer Frank, thinking that he would have to run to him more often in the future.
Frederick assigned the new militia reform to the Ministry of Military Affairs and asked old Franz to take charge of formulating the plan.
After the work arrangements were completed, Frederick began to carry out an extremely important task.
Mrs. Sophie's fleet arrived, which was all filled with fine cotton. After unloading, they left with steel, elemental steel and other local products.
Now the warehouse is filled with cotton and the wool that had been hoarded before, enough for Frederick to cry.
The textile industry must be developed. Now that conditions permit, it will naturally be launched.
Frederick was very familiar with cotton spinning. In his previous life, he was a child of a cotton textile printing and dyeing factory. He had never eaten pork, but he had watched pigs running since he was a child.
Textile is divided into two major parts: spinning and weaving.
To spin cotton into yarn, it generally needs to go through major processes such as blowing, carding, drawing, roving, and spinning.
The weaving process includes the main processes of winding, warping, sizing, drawing-in and weaving.
Jenny spinning machine is used in the stage of processing roving into fine yarn. If you want to comprehensively improve the spinning efficiency, Jenny spinning machine alone is not enough.
And he has never seen the actual Jenny spinning machine, but he has seen all the machines in the textile factory.
After Frederick returned to Heijiaburg, he took out paper, pen and drawing tools and began to draw the schematic diagram of the machine from memory.
There is no need to think about that kind of fully automated machine. We can only redesign the machine according to its principles.
In my hometown, after the cotton is packed and transported from the production area to the factory, the cotton bundles and rolls are loosened and impurities are removed using cotton pickers and openers.
But Frederick was tricked by Mrs. Sophie. The cotton in his hometown had its seeds removed when it was produced, while Mrs. Sophie picked the cotton and dried it before packing it and sending it. The cotton seeds are removed through a cotton gin.
But this is not entirely a disadvantage. The principle of removing cotton seeds in a cotton gin is very simple. There is a rotating roller in the machine with some fine serrations on it to drive the cotton. It carries the cotton through a comb, and the cotton seeds and larger debris can be removed, and then a scraper is used to remove the cotton seeds. The cotton knife scrapes the cotton from the roller.
The cotton that comes out at this time is already relatively fluffy, so you can save the step of picking up the cotton, and then send it to the cotton opener.
The main component of the cotton opener is also a roller. Several rollers are arranged in a stepped manner. The cotton enters at a low place at a slow speed and the cotton comes out at a high place at a fast speed. The cotton is driven and scraped by the rollers. The cotton knife passes through these rollers one after another under the guidance of the cotton knife. There are many small metal sticks installed on each roller. When rotating, the cotton is further loosened and debris is removed.
Next, the cotton has to go through a single-roller cotton opener with a higher speed to further loosen and remove impurities.
Then the cotton enters the carding machine. The rollers here are densely packed with fine needles. After the soft cotton ball passes between several rollers with different rotation speeds and relative motions, the cotton ball is completely broken up. Long fibers are combed in the same direction and short fibers are removed.
The carded cotton is like a thin piece of cotton. When gathered together, it becomes a cotton sliver. Several cotton slivers are combined into one in the draw frame to make the cotton fibers evenly distributed, and then passed through different speeds. The small rollers pull, causing the thicker cotton slivers to be pulled into thin mature cotton slivers.
Then it was the turn of the roving frame and the spinning frame. After the cotton sliver passed through rollers at different speeds, it was further processed into roving and spun yarn of different fineness under the action of drafting force and twist. This method is much faster than the Jenny spinning machine. The efficiency is much higher, but the prerequisite is sufficient power.
The next step is the weaving stage.
Winding is to wrap the yarn around the cylinder to facilitate the next step of work.
Warping is to wind a certain amount of yarn on a long tube of a certain width as the warp during weaving, that is, the thread in the length direction of the fabric.
In order to improve the strength of the yarn and reduce wear during the weaving process, the yarn needs to go through a sizing process, which requires a sizing machine.
The drop pieces used for drawing the warp, the healds, heald frames and heald rods that make up the heald frame made Frederick's head suddenly grow bigger.
Except for the drop piece that was often used to make a boomerang when I was a kid, I only remember the other parts roughly.
The shuttle of the loom is simple. Many chairs in the factory just use angle steel to weld a frame, and then use the discarded shuttle to make the seat surface and backrest board. It is common to see them.
The structure of the loom is not a problem. He has seen a human-powered dual-purpose loom. This loom can be driven by an engine or by manual pedals. In this Enough of the times.
When Frederick finished the drawing, he leaned back on his chair and let out a long sigh of relief. The workload was not small, and it went far beyond designing the steam engine.
And it took a lot of time. Two red apples appeared in front of him.
“Would you like an apple?” Maria was holding a ripe apple in her hand. Her face was flushed with exhaustion from picking apples.
Frederick cheered up, took the apple, went to the tea cabinet to get a plate and a knife, cut the apple into pieces, cut it into a rabbit shape and put it on the plate.
The two were sitting on the sofa eating apples with forks. Frederick asked Maria: "Is picking apples fun?"
Maria pouted and replied: "No. It’s fun, but you won’t go with me.”
Frederick smiled bitterly and ate a piece of apple.
The difficulty of designing the entire textile process was beyond my imagination, and it took me most of the autumn.
"I'm done now." said Frederick, "How about we go play tomorrow?"
"Okay!" Maria immediately became happy, "We want to Where are we going to play?”
Frederick curled his lips and said, “How about we go look at the stars!”
(End of this chapter)