Chapter 650: Jacquard Machine Test Run

The reason why the printing press was handed over to the craftsmen of the Technical Guild was that Lin originally intended to disclose this knowledge and protect his own interests as much as possible. In addition to establishing his own academic status, he also has the idea of speeding up the dissemination of knowledge.

The reason why the jacquard machine is made by himself is, on the one hand, because he wants to keep this knowledge secret, whether it is the production method of silk, or the jacquard machine technology that comes partly from the earth and has been modified by himself.

On Earth, the spark of the first industrial revolution was the steam engine, yes; But what really drove the fire of the industrial revolution was the light industry dominated by textiles. The former is just an improvement in technology, but the latter is a clear industry, which can be made faster and easier to earn money.

Lin didn't want to let out the technology that made a lot of money for nothing. Do you really think that you are here to cross sentient beings?

On the one hand, the jacquard machine still needs to be developed and improved. It's not like the original Manroland printing press, as long as it is produced, it can become an instant combat force and come in handy directly.

Since they all need to be modified, instead of wasting time communicating with craftsmen, and then asking them to modify or make new parts, the things made may not meet their own requirements, and if they are bad, they need to be reworked, it is better to do it yourself and get it in place at one time.

The automatic control program of the jacquard machine, of course, was designed by Fen. As the automation system that dominated the peace forces of the Silverbeard Dwarves, the Lich has gotten better than anyone else in this regard. Including induction, feedback, and automatic judgment, she has established a set of judgment logic. As long as she confirms which of the actual situations applies, she can immediately come up with a solution.

The most attentive girl, Kaya, is in charge of a new job, and it is also a very important job. In the production process of Shu brocade, there is the so-called work of the painter and the knot. It is to convert the drawn pattern into a pattern-making process of weaving. And in this work, Lin Ke is not satisfied with the handmade flower book similar to the Shu brocade process, but to program it.

This involves analyzing the image from the beginning, pixelating it, and converting it into the longitude and latitude relationship of the silk thread. And because someone doesn't just want to make repetitive, symmetrical patterns, but intends to use the brocade cloth as a painting, it is also necessary to add color analysis, dosage estimation, etc.

The most troublesome thing is the expression of gradient colors. To this end, Lin taught the girl to use the concept of three primary colors and four primary colors to add color, that is, to arrange different colors of silk threads in different quantities densely, which can give people a new color vision.

However, giving such a suggestion is like making the machine more difficult for itself, because the complexity of the jacquard bouquet also increases. However, this also has the advantage of reducing the variety of colors of the material and making more color variations.

Of course, these needs are not all decided by someone as soon as they pat their heads. Although there is a primitive Hualou Shu brocade machine as the basis, it is also because I know exactly what kind of work I want to complete in the end, which can continue to improve the original loom.

The development of the jacquard machine was not smooth or smooth. There are no stuck, or mechanical structures that are difficult to solve. But when one question is over, another one will pop up. It's almost becoming someone's daily routine these days.

Whenever a new problem arises, sometimes not only the machine structure needs to be modified, but also the control program of Fen needs to be changed. The most common thing to do is to miniaturize the original structure and increase the number.

For example, the control arm of the jacquard bouquet is that the finer the pattern you want to make, the more complex the changes will be. In order to meet these changing needs, the only option is to reduce the number of threads per bundle and increase the number of bundles of jacquard.

In order to do such a thing, when the number of jacquard arms can not be increased horizontally, of course, the size of the original jacquard arms can only be reduced to reduce the space occupied.

And when you usually have to miniaturize a structure, the number of parts is overwhelming. Fen and Kaya, who joined the Jacquard machine research and development together, were originally only responsible for the part of the program, and at this time, they would also be pulled down to do the work of physical modification together.

The two of them, who didn't understand why they were making such a complicated loom, were about to be driven crazy by someone. Halumi originally wanted to help, but just looking at the structure of the drawings and the number of changes that needed to be made, the girl was directly defeated. On the grounds that she had to raise silkworms and reel silk, and record the results of the silk thread blending enchantment, she ran away in dismay.

And, more importantly, these changes are far from final, and they are subject to change at any time. Just when the two red-eyed women who were about to strangle a man after working for several days and were all doing day jobs, Lin decided to turn on the machine and do a practical test.

Although in the process of developing the Jacquard machine, it was tested with the weaving threads that were available on the market. But the quality of the ordinary twine was very different from the thickness and silk thread, so Lin only used it to test the operation of the machine, and did not actually weave a piece of cloth.

On the other hand, the recipe for the moth seed of the silk thread has not yet been completely finalized, and now there is only Harumi reeling the silk in order to collect data, so fragmentary results. But because of the accumulation of experiments, a lot of silk threads have accumulated after silk reeling.

The sources of these threads are different, the quality is uneven, and the enchantment standards are different, but they can be considered to meet someone's minimum standard, that is, they are attached with protective magic that resists the xenomorph energy of dimensional rifts. Looking at the amount, it is estimated that it is enough to make a piece of Jinpa. So someone randomly found a sparrow's photo from the photo library and threw it to Kaya for a preliminary analysis.

After obtaining the desired color silk thread, the silk thread was hastily dyed with the painting dye on the market, and the spool of the jacquard machine was placed. The results of the analysis of the Kaya program were imported into Fen's control program, and the machine was soon in motion.

I didn't think about copying the craftsmanship of Shu brocade from the beginning, and it was also because the parts that were disclosed were all traditional handmade methods. The length of weaving in a day is only a few centimeters, and it takes several years to get the fabric you need. I can't afford to use this kind of expensive thing, I can't afford to wait.

Although it is developing in the direction of automation, it is completely a magic jacquard machine regardless of the cost. The purpose is to save some time and speed up a little faster, so that I can use the eye-catching material earlier. Therefore, in order to design this automatic jacquard machine, Lin can be said to have done his best, and made various scenarios as much as possible, and set various response plans.

But in any case, he is a layman in the textile industry after all. Whether this jacquard machine can be made or not, whether the silk can be made or not, ultimately depends on the results to judge. And it is not difficult to guess that after the test operation of the machine, there will be some problems that have not been found before. This is the prelude to a major overhaul.

Almost all the people who cared about silk stayed by the jacquard machine, watching nearly a thousand silk threads gradually weave into a square handkerchief under the operation of the machine. In particular, the pictures of sparrows selected by Lin gradually take shape as the shuttle strikes silk threads of different colors, and the warp and weft are staggered.

Occasionally, Fen and Lin also taught biology and mathematics courses separately. Finally, after dinner, a piece of brocade about 15 centimeters square was finished. It's not finished yet, mainly because the accumulated silk threads have run out. The very end of the short section, because there are a lot of empty spools running, so the weaving is messy. But at least the sparrow in the center of the Jinpa is done.

"Is it done?" Halumi, crouching by the window with his chin resting on the windowsill, asked.

At this time, Lin was stopping the operation of the jacquard machine and holding scissors, intending to cut off the end of the Jinpa. But I had to cut the only scissors in the house until the blade broke, and I couldn't cut the flat cable.

Three anxious women stretched out their hands and tried to remove the piece of brocade. However, the enchanted silk thread was even tougher than expected, and when Harumi was reeling the silk, most of the thread tails were not treated much, so he never found such a characteristic.

Just when this impatient big girl was about to run to get the box cut and come back to deal with this piece of small brocade, Lin took a moment to accurately locate it, and used the ability of the flash technique to cut off the space to cut it together, and took this long-awaited experimental piece in his hand.

"How does it feel?" "How's it being knitted?" "How effective is the enchantment?" The three women start with three questions, and then they chatter like a series of cannons, and all kinds of strange questions emerge one after another.

It's just that they don't wait for an answer, Harumi is fast, grabs the things first, and rubs them against their faces. The special smooth touch is incomparable to other kinds of fabrics. The blonde girl who put the brocade pa against her face couldn't help but show a look of satisfaction and intoxication. And the part of the pattern is not like embroidery, there will be obvious concave and convex.

Since the thing was in the hands of the good sister, Kaya was not polite, and pulled it out. Keep rubbing with the palm and back of your hand to feel the light and soft touch. Jinpa is so supple that it doesn't give people any discomfort, and it's completely different from those coarse cloth clothes.

But before Kaya could touch it, the lich stretched out his hand, and the black-haired and brown-skinned girl of course obediently offered it. Fen rubbed the brocade cloth in a matter-of-fact manner, looking up and down, as if he looked very professional. In fact, someone knows that this lich is just pretending.

The silk of the lost land is completely a seller's market, as long as it is taken out and sold, even if it is a little moth-eaten, or a defective product with obvious defects, it is also the target of women's crazy robbery. In this rare case, it would be hellish what they could do.

However, this piece of brocade made the three women confirm one thing, that is, homemade silk is really playful. Even with their hard work these days is nothing, they are all in a state of rage, ready to turn on the power of the machine, and make it out of a dozen or hundreds of feet of silk to play.