Chapter 37: The first foot-operated sewing machine

Ye Tan went to Dao Liang first.

Seeing Ye Tan, Dao Liang hurriedly put down the work in his hand, greeted him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Ye, why are you free to come?" ”

"I haven't been here for a few days, I wonder if I think you brothers, so I'll come and take a look," Ye Tan said as he picked up the planed plank, looked at the left and right very expertly, and said with a homely look: "Master Dao, your skills are good, how are you busy?" ”

"Mr. Ye, these brothers, are very diligent, according to your drawings, the medicine cabinet has been prepared for 5 wholes, each drawer has two grids, and there are 500 drawers in one whole, which can hold 1,000 herbs. In addition, there are 8 display shelves, and when they are filled with glass, it is a distribution counter. (The glass window was introduced in the 10th year of Yongzheng)

"Excellent! Thank you very much. Chairs, stools, cabinets and sick chuang, just trouble everyone. Master Knife, tell the kitchen to add vegetables to the brothers today, just say that I said it. ”

Ye Tan hugged his fists and saluted everyone, and after speaking, he turned to the women's camp.

Seeing Ye Tan again, Shangguan Ying's eyes had an indescribable strange light.

"Mr. Ye, 2,000 pieces of white cloth have been delivered. The sisters feel that they are in a panic, and the old lady has no idea there, so let me ask you for some needlework. ”

Shangguan Ying's eyes quickly returned to purity and said.

"Miss Shangguan, these girls, I originally wanted to train to be a nurse in the hospital. But the hospital is still in the pipeline. So, from today onwards, you will be responsible for teaching these girls about culture. Half a day of studying, half a day of sewing clothes. I'll get some sewing machines later. ”

As a person who traveled through later generations, Ye Tan knew too well what Shangguan Ying's eyes meant. He was not a gentleman, but he was not hungry either. It's just that now there are a lot of things, a thousand things, where is as romantic as others think.

Leaving Ye Tan in a panic, Shangguan Ying had both a little pride and a little disappointment. proved that Ye Tan could understand her heart, but she didn't dare to face it.

Back in the courtyard, Ye Tan locked himself in a warehouse on the left.

Inside the warehouse, Liyat procures steel and tools nearby. The quality of these steels, which is used to build a foot-operated sewing machine, is more than enough.

It is known that the first sewing machine was built in 1790 by the Englishman Thomas. Shante invention. The second was the Frenchman Timonia, who, in 1841, invented the needle with hook chain stitch sewing machine. The third place is in 1851, the United States native Elok. Merritt. Singer. In 1859, the foot-operated sewing machine was invented.

In addition to this, there is a man named Elias. Howe's rice people, in April 1845, invented the sewing machine. And obtained patent number: 4750. At the beginning of 1849, there was a protracted five-year patent war with Singer.

However, none of this has anything to do with Ye Tan. The foot-operated sewing machine invented by themselves is more than 2 years more advanced than them. In particular, the processing technology has not lasted for more than 50 years.

Of course, some patented ideas still have to buy the right to use.

For the first time, Ye Tan transferred the steel into space. First draw the design drawings, determine the processing size, and then start the generator, start the milling, planing and other machinery.

An iron frame, a steel plate, a mechanical rotating shaft, plus rolling bearings, an iron shell, a staggered hook runner and so on.

In the Blue Pupil Space, after 3 hours of busy processing parts and assembly, 100 foot-operated sewing machines were successfully born.

Coming out of the space, Ye Tan deliberately pretended to knock and knock, and half an hour later, Ye Tan asked Zeng Xiaoying to bring people to the women's camp.

The sewing machine was missing a table and a semi-curved wooden box, and they needed to help with the knife beam.

"Master Dao, the things on this drawing are going to be needed soon, you ask the brothers to put down their work and specialize in this."

Ye Tan said as he handed the drawing to Dao Liang.

The knife beam took the drawing and looked at it, it was a very simple object, but it was not clear what Mr. Ye was used for.

However, he will not ask about Ye Tan's affairs. Anyone who camps on the hill of San Bruno knows what secrecy is all about.

A board, but a matter of cutting, is the semi-arc wooden box, a bit troublesome, it takes a little time.

More than 100 people did it, cutting materials, playing ink, chiseling tongues and grooves, and plywood squares. Division of labor and cooperation, assembly line production, in just five or six minutes, 20 tables were made, as well as semi-arc-shaped wooden boxes.

Bring the table board and wooden box to the women's camp, the female compatriots inside, who are already three layers inside and three layers outside, form a big circle, curious about the baby's left and right, you say a word, point and point.

When Ye Tan assembled the foot-operated sewing machine, added a piece of hemp rope, loaded the burs and threads, and turned the wheel, everyone was pleasantly surprised and laughed from the bottom of their hearts.

"Mr. Ye, this foot-operated sewing machine, as far as I know, there is no one in the whole of the United States, right?"

Shangguan Ying was so shocked that she covered her lips with her hands and said dumbfounded.

I have to say that Shangguan Ying is smart.

Ye Tan nodded and said indifferently: "Indeed." Because I invented it. Foot-operated sewing machines are the only ones we have here in the world. In the future, you don't have to work so hard to do handicrafts! ”

For a while, Shangguan Ying couldn't understand Ye Tan again.

For Shangguan Ying, who is already familiar with the United States, what will this invention mean?

It will mean a huge fortune! It will change the way of making clothes for countless female compatriots who have worked hard for this! This convenient foot-operated sewing machine, once it enters thousands of households, is a manufacturing revolution.

"Mr. Ye, you are really amazing."

Probably because of excitement, or because of worship, Shangguan Ying said with a red face.

Shangguan Ying found an old cloth and sat down in front of the sewing machine. When I stepped on my feet, I couldn't control it, so that the needle and thread were crooked.

Ye Tan beckoned and asked Shangguan Ying to stand up.

Ye Tan, who sat in front of the sewing machine, folded a small side of the old cloth, put down the pressure lock, stepped on it, pushed both hands at the same time, and walked down the needle and thread in a straight line.

Shangguan Ying took the old cloth that Ye Tan tested, and the small edge sewn by the needle and thread was impartial, not big or small, just 5 mm. It immediately shocked her.

Looking at Ye Tan's skillful appearance, it is like an authentic old worker who has been doing sewing for several years.

However, at this time, the sewing machine had not yet been introduced to the Qing Dynasty, so how could he know how to sew the sewing machine?

broke his head, Shangguan Ying couldn't even think of it.

Just when Ye Tan is a genius, no matter what he learns or does, he can understand it if he thinks about it. Unlike others, it takes a period of training to master a craft.

With a steady stream of tables and semi-arc wooden boxes, Ye Tan was assembled onto the sewing machine, and one sewing machine after another filled the entire warehouse.

"By the way, Miss Shangguan, set aside half of those white cloths, and I'm going to silk-screen print some fabrics myself."

After Ye Tan finished speaking, he suddenly remembered that there is no style of cardboard, isn't it difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice? Feel free to start painting yourself.

Ye Cheng in his previous life, the aunt next door when he was a child, opened a tailor shop. Ye Cheng often goes there to play, and now that he thinks back, the original scene is very clear.

Coupled with the spread of Internet videos, Ye Cheng also often browses some clothing designs.

Therefore, as soon as he made a move, he directly stunned all the female compatriots present.

It only took 5 minutes, Ye Tan used a pencil and more than ten pieces of blank paper to draw a spring and autumn outfit, three yards of large, medium and small cardboard.

If it weren't for the fact that the cloth was too thick, Ye Tan even wanted to design a white shirt.

Thinking about it, Ye Tan felt that it was better to forget it. The weaving technology is not yet mature, and some things, if you take half a step, you are advanced, and if you take a step forward, you are a waste of resources.

By the time Ye Tan put down the cardboard, he had already left the women's camp. The girls' eyes were still watery, looking at the direction of Ye Tan's departure, unwilling to look back.

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