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Chapter 234 Canvas and Sewing Machine
Watching the operator skillfully complete the shooting demonstration of this machine gun with an upgraded version of the remote firing mechanism, Xia Lin found that this machine gun is really reliable except for its slow rate of fire and unsustainable firepower. None of the ten machine guns demonstrated had any malfunctions. Master Fine and the others had indeed lost their minds.

And in fact, the slow rate of fire may not be an advantage for the current new army. Anyway, the current logistics supply level of the new army is not high. There is no such financial and human resources to support.

"Well, it seems that you have done a good job during this time! I will order 150 of these machine guns from the gun factory in the name of the deputy division commander of the new army, right! Have you decided on the name of this type of machine gun?"

With this in mind, after watching the whole process of the demonstration, Xia Lin nodded in satisfaction and asked.

"Master Faen just completed the test of the machine gun yesterday and has not had time to name it. How about asking Boss Xia Lin to name the machine gun we developed!"

The workshop manager Yide said quickly.

"Then this kind of machine gun should be called Type 92 light machine gun. It's simple and easy to remember. You should quickly arrange and organize the production line of Type 92 light machine gun. Within a week, can you complete the production of fifty Type 92 light machine guns? "

Naturally, Xia Lin continued the naming habits he brought from his previous life, and confirmed the name of the first light machine gun developed by the gun factory, and then he asked with some concern.

At present, the third round of large-scale recruitment of the new army has almost ended. The current situation of the 6000-strong new army is that two brigades that are dissatisfied with the establishment form a new military division that is dissatisfied with the establishment. Xia Linhe was transferred to take over the position of Viscount Hart. The status of Ley Rand has also risen to the position of deputy division commander and division commander.

An army of this size, even if it is needed for training, must at least be equipped with this number of machine guns, but the production of machine guns is not as simple as rifles, so Xia Lin is naturally a little worried.

"There is no problem with this. If you need it, we can quickly organize two production lines, which can produce almost twelve Type 92 machine guns a day, which is more than enough seven days a week."

He made such a promise on his lips, but the workshop manager Yide looked a little unconfident. Seeing his hesitation, Xia Lin asked:
"Is there any problem that needs to be solved?"

"...Yes, Boss Xia Lin, although we can produce these machine guns in time, there is still a problem in order for these machine guns to be useful, that is, the canvas ammunition chains we produce may not be enough.

At present, there are only [-] female workers in the R&D workshop, and they can sew [-] or [-] canvas bullet chains in a day, and many of them are substandard products.

If it is placed in a 92-type machine gun, it is easy to cause malfunctions such as jamming, and there are only four or five that can be used. With so many machine guns, we have to configure at least [-] canvas belts. "

"So, this problem is easy to solve! I will arrange some female workers in the textile factory to produce canvas bullet chains, and there should be no shortage by then.

But how do you sew these canvas belts now?You take me to see! "

Xia Lin nodded clearly. The canvas ammunition belt is a continuous feeding method proposed by Maxim, the inventor of the Maxim machine gun in the previous life. Convenient features while also being easy to manufacture.

Because the canvas bullet chain is essentially a canvas belt with some metal sheet structure to isolate bullets, and it doesn't even need to be industrialized. A slightly skilled female worker can sew it out by hand as long as she understands the principle and explores it. The reason why Xia Lin adopted this type of ammunition chain when designing the Type 92 machine gun is that compared with canvas ammunition chains, the manufacturing of magazines that require stamping equipment in the modern sense is much more difficult.

Xia Lin only mentioned this method of supplying ammunition on the drawing, and the specific content was found out by Master Fine and the others. Xia Lin was also very curious about how the canvas was sewn into this kind of ammunition chain.

Naturally, the workshop manager Yide would not refuse Xia Lin's request, and immediately brought Xia Lin to the R&D workshop to find the man who was sitting at a large square table filled with small perforated steel sheets and cut canvas pieces. textile workers.

They can be regarded as the group of people with the easiest work and relatively good salary in the gun factory. They do the same sewing work as they did in the textile factory before, but their salary is double that of the gun factory. It's just that there is a little more danger of in-situ explosions in gun factories and the constraints of secrecy regulations.

It is also because of this that these female workers are also quite focused on their work. Each of them sits with their heads down at their workstations, comparing the long rulers fixed on the generous table, and stitching the canvas pieces in their hands according to the given spacing with thick twine. Sew it.

Xia Lin noticed that there seemed to be a kind of grouping among them. The female workers on the left were responsible for sewing the canvas pieces into canvas belts, while the female workers on the right were responsible for sewing metal pieces onto the sewn canvas belts. Master En also got some gains from the assembly line operation implemented by Xia Lin in various factories.

However, no matter how focused you are, it is quite troublesome to sew a one-meter-long canvas belt and 31 metal pieces on it. Seeing the efficiency of this manual sewing, Xia Lin couldn't help shaking his head, and naturally came up with the idea of ​​using a machine. Ideas to improve their productivity.

Xia Lin felt that such a fixed sewing operation could be done with an old-fashioned sewing machine. This kind of sewing machine was known as one of the three major parts in a certain era in Xia Lin's previous life. The accessory is composed of four parts, and there are more than 100 parts in total. It looks a bit complicated, but in fact the structure and principle are very simple.

Specifically, the pedals are used to drive the crankshaft and the running wheel, and further drive the running wheel of the machine head to provide the power required by the sewing needle, so that the sewing needles of different specifications can pass through the cloth on the feed dog, and drive the surface on the sewing needle. The thread and the shuttle below, the shuttle will make the upper thread expand into a loop at the bottom, during this process, another bobbin thread wrapped around the bobbin will pass through this loop, and will be hit with it after the needle pulls the upper loop. Knot, thus completing the whole sewing process.

This sewing process does not require manual threading of needles and threads. The female workers only need to pay attention to controlling the spacing of the stitches, and use their feet to provide the power required by the sewing machine, and they can quickly complete the sewing work of the fabric. The overall work efficiency is improved compared with hand-woven textiles. More than ten times.

The most wonderful thing is that this type of old-fashioned sewing machine first appeared in the [-]th century of the previous life. Although the processing precision requirements have improved slightly with the evolution of time and the increase in structural complexity, they are also used in the machining factories of industrial parks. Within the acceptable range, at most, precision transmission mechanisms such as thread take-up rods, rollers, thread lifting shafts and tooth frames need to be finished by dwarf masters in the machining factory.

Let workshop manager Yide feel free to organize the production line of the 92-type light machine gun, and after completing the large-scale production of the light machine gun as soon as possible, Xia Lin returned to his office in the industrial park to collect the drawings for several days, and successfully drew the drawings of the sewing machine come out.

In order to reduce the difficulty of processing and manufacturing, Xia Lin deleted the tooth lifting shaft, tooth frame and supporting presser feet from the drawings of modern pedal sewing machines that he wrote down, and replaced the wheel-shaped shuttle shuttle with more difficult processing. The bullet-type shuttle with lower efficiency but simpler structure, the crankshaft transmission structure inside the machine head is also changed to a connecting rod transmission structure with more parts but less processing difficulty.

In this way, the technical difficulty is almost reduced to the level of the [-]th century in the previous life. With a group of skilled dwarf craftsmen at hand, it can be processed with the current machine tool equipment.

After arranging the manufacture of the sewing machine, Xia Lin welcomed another unexpected visitor, that is Faith Luien.Since seeing him, there should be some news about the few things he asked Her Majesty to take the lead. However, it was only a few days ago, but Xia Lin didn't expect Faith Louise to deal with it so quickly. It seems that there is such a thing. A person at a high level who helps me communicate various aspects is still pretty good.

(End of this chapter)