Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 393

"Claude, why do you want to use copper to make bullet shells?"

“Why is the bullet casing bigger than the bullet?”

"Why is the bullet not circular, do you want to make it conical?"

“Why can the entire bullet be shot so far without being placed all in the barrel?”

“How did you come up with the design concept of a revolver?”

"And, Claude, your design of the runners is really a genius idea. How can you tell me if you think of it?"

"Right, Claude. If I lengthen the barrel of this revolver and add a **** behind, can I make a revolver?"

......

Mrs. Sonia will be transformed into 100,000 why the baby, holding a revolver in one hand, and holding Crowder’s arm in one hand keeps asking questions.

Claude has turned his eyes and said that I know why the bullet casing is bigger than the bullet. Anyway, the success of this revolver is only based on the structure of the model pistol and the impression left by the western film. It’s true that Claude explained that he can only swear by some concepts rather than being. After all, there is a master of Byrd who is standing with his ears ready to listen to his answer. This is related to the question of whether or not he can succeed. Lord is not careful.

"You let me go first, Sonya. In fact, many of the questions you just mentioned are connected and repeated." Claude coughed two positive colors and waited for Sonya to let go of his arm before he invited: "Uncle, Sonya, let me go back to the lab with me. There are papers and pens. I can talk to you about the ideas and ideas when I designed this revolver."

Back to the lab, there were only Claude, sister Anna, Sonya and Bird master. Little Mark wanted to learn to ride horses. Claude told McJean to take care of his first godson. As for the big man, Still standing outside the door of the laboratory.

"When I was very young, I didn't like short squats. Compared to long muskets, its power is too small, and the filling is equally cumbersome." Claude started this way: "I used to think about it." Understand why the length of a short scorpion has half or one-third of a standard musket, but the range and power will be so different?"

Crowder looked at Sonya and gave her a smile: "When the war in the eastern region was ten years ago, I was still a squad officer. I needed to bring the soldiers to go in person. According to the weapons of the 军 officer, I need to carry a short. Sword, standard musket, and a short shackle tied to the side of the thigh.

In fact, this short shackle is useless on the battlefield, and it becomes a burden. My colleagues often throw a short slap at a shot, and lightly put on a sword or a bayonet rifle to rush to the position and fight with the enemy. From then on, I want to design a hand. Reliable short firearms allow us to guard ourselves on the battlefield.

The biggest weakness of the short squat is the filling trouble. Although the short shovel now uses the fixed paper tube bullets, it still needs to clean the rifle after the launch, and then the fixed paper tube bullets are inserted from the muzzle. Put the bullet into the top, then open the ignition box, use the fire needle to pick up the paper tube to expose the gunpowder inside. Then you need to pour the ignition powder into the fire box, contact the gunpowder exposed in the paper tube, and then clip the lit fire rope to the fire. Above the box, so that you can prepare to aim at the shot...

This series of operations is too cumbersome and cumbersome. There is not so much time on the battlefield for a squad officer to use a short scorpion to defend or destroy the enemy. I was thinking about it at that time. Can I simplify this process a little more? After thinking about it, I put my mind on the body of the paper tube bullet.

My original idea was to directly ignite the gunpowder in the fixed paper tube bullets. I don't need any fire box fire needles. I think it is very simple. I put the flint in the back of the fixed paper tube bullet and then in the short. Behind the raft, hit the hammer and hit the flint, ignite the gunpowder inside the paper tube and launch the gun. ”

"At that time I was in Squirrel Village, and when I met you." Claude nodded to Sonya, and Sonya blushed.

Claude continued: "We discussed the possibility of filling in the back, and the first short note I designed at the time was like this....."

Claude drew a short plaque on the paper, only a barrel, behind the barrel was a large hammer device, as well as a wooden body and a plate machine. There was no fire box on the barrel. Things look very succinct, and then Claude draws a curve that can be bent under the barrel.

"I wanted to design such a short squat at that time. The barrel could be bent down, stuffed into the bullet from the back, and then fired with a hammer. This is much easier on the battlefield. If possible, I want to Add one or two barrels to the stock, so that you can fire three bullets or three times in a row.” Crowder shrugged and made a helpless expression: “But my design failed, I think It’s beautiful, but the result can’t be realized.”

At the moment, Sonya interjected: "Claude, the first rifle that I designed for the rear-loading mode is actually similar to yours. It is also bent and loaded. Then I got the gunpowder and I tried again. This kind of loading mode, as a result, its range is only about 260 meters..."

Crowd nodded. "You are the result of the actual operation test. I am not as convenient as you are in the army, but I also experimented with several muskets damaged on the battlefield. I found that the biggest problem lies in the bullets. Instead of the barrel. The paper tube fixed bullet is not suitable for the rear loading mode. For example, the rock is installed on the bottom of the paper cartridge, and then the hammer is used to hit the fire. Sometimes the hammer will put the paper. The cartridge is fixed to the barrel and does not hit the spark.

Or the paper tube fixed bullets will be shrunk into a group because of the hitting. These are the reasons why the meteorite knocking fire rate is too high. Not every hammer can make the meteorite hit the spark and ignite the paper tube to fix the bullet. Gunpowder inside. After discovering this problem, I wanted to use something to replace the paper tube as a bullet case...

During the squirrel village, I found a reclusive magician in Houshan. With her help, I did a lot of experiments and finally found that the most suitable for the bullet casing is brass leather, because brass has very good Extensibility. If you use iron to make a bullet casing, every time the bullet is fired, the bullet shell of the iron will be split, and it cannot be reused like this copper bullet casing. In addition, gold and silver are too expensive, lead and zinc are too soft and easy to deform, the steel shell is too hard and too brittle, and no brass is used as a bullet shell.

After the brass cylinder was used instead of the paper tube, there was another problem, that is, the bullet shell was easily caught in the barrel after the bullet was fired, and it took a lot of effort to get out. This problem has puzzled me for a long time. Only when I was actually engaged in an artillery exercise, did I want to understand the truth. ”

Claude picked up a piece of paper again and drew a very simple cannon shape on it: "You found that no, all the cannons are thick at the bottom, and the upper barrel is thinner? I was curious at the time, ask a The old artillery, why the bottom of the cannon was cast so thick.

The old artillery replied that if it was not made thick, then a lot of gunpowder would explode inside, and it would be easy to blow up the cannon. It is because the casting is thick, the gunpowder is shackled by the bottom and the two sides of the barrel after the explosion at the bottom. The huge power generated by the gunpowder explosion can only be impacted in the direction of the barrel, thus pushing the heavy solid projectile out... ...

The words of this old artillery gave me a revelation. Since the cannon was fired like this, isn't the same as the firearm launch? The two are actually the same situation, nothing more than a bigger one and a smaller one. I summed it up. The musket launch also requires space that is sealed in only one direction and the other around the perimeter, so that the power generated by the explosion after the gunpowder is ignited will shoot the bullet in the direction of the opening.

If my idea is correct, then my brass bullet shell has actually replaced the function of the barrel. The gunpowder ignites in the bullet shell, just like in the barrel. Then you only need to put the bullet pair The quasi gun barrel will do. This is why I made the bullet casing bigger than the bullet, because the bullet casing will never get stuck in the barrel.

The rest I only need to get something to hold the bullet casing to prevent it from loosening, and also prevent the bullet shell from bursting and deforming when the bullet is fired. So I don't need a better barrel to withstand more explosions of gunpowder. Filling the gun with more gunpowder like Sonia to increase the range of the bullet is actually a detour..."

Sonya burst into tears, and Claude’s statement made her feel a bit shameful. As a firearms manufacturing expert, she now only hates herself as a rib. She only knows that the bullets and gun barrels that have been added to the bullets will not pass. As a result, more than 800 gun barrels have been wasted, and nothing has been studied for half a year. Why? You can't change your mind from the bullets like Claude.

"With this kind of copper shell bullet, you can make a short pistol. But the problem is that the misfire rate is too high, as I said earlier, the bottom of the bullet is not guaranteed to be able to hammer each time. Hit the spark. No one on the battlefield can guarantee that you have been hitting the hammer or changing the bullets there and the enemy has turned a blind eye to you, so the short pistol I designed is still not very practical.

For a long time, because the gunpowder can not be found, the production of the short pistol can only be drawn on the drawings. Later, I saw a waterwheel, which is a waterwheel with a bamboo tube in the canal and then turned to the water in the bamboo tube. I believe you should have an impression? Let me have an inspiration. If a bullet is misfiring, then immediately go to the next bullet. After a lap, there will always be two or three bullets fired. This is better than staring at a dumb bullet. It’s better to hit with a hammer...

So I started designing a revolver, which is what is in front of us. Through calculations, I found that a runner loaded with five or six bullets is the most appropriate. Too much is complicated and error-prone. Even the hammer cannot correctly hit the flint at the bottom of the bullet, so I designed this six. The bullet wheel, then continue to design the barrel and the body of the gun, the final result is the three revolvers in front of you. ”

Claude picked up a revolver, opened it, took the wheel down, and put it back on it again: "When designing this wheel, I thought about how to quickly load bullets on the battlefield. Then I thought of it. After the bullet is finished, it is not necessary to refill the bullets. It is more convenient and quick to take a wheel full of bullets.

But here I have to thank Sonia, if it is not the invention of the gunpowder, in fact, the revolver I designed will still be stuck in the box and not see the sky. Because the way of hitting the fire with a flint hammer hits the fire, the rate of misfiring is too high. My sister Anna has done experiments. She once hit the lap twice and a bullet could not be fired, so I can only stuff them. In the box..."

Master Bird gently clap his hands: "I have to congratulate you, Claude, you are so ashamed of the so-called gun masters. You have successfully designed a new type of gun that is completely different from the type of arquebus. It's already perfect and excellent, there is almost no room for improvement. But I still have a question, why do you call it a revolver, not a revolver?"

Claude Khan is down, yes, why is it called a revolver, not a revolver? Where can I ask? It’s hard to fool the process of how to design and manufacture this kind of revolver. The most worrying thing is that the old man is suspicious that he is just a firearms design amateur. How can he design and manufacture such a perfect and mature kind of firearm... ..

Fortunately, Master Bird did not doubt the design process, but instead entangled the name. Claude wiped the sweat from his forehead and unconsciously removed the wheel of the revolver in his hand. Suddenly there was a move: "This is the case, uncle, you didn't find that I took it from the left every time I removed the wheel, so I used to call it a revolver. In fact, a revolver can be, but No such revolver sounds so pleasing and so cool..."

"Right, uncle, can you and Sonya stay here to help me?" Crowder asked.

"Help you?" Master Bird looked at Crowd with some doubts: "The design of this revolver has been successful. What can I help you?"

"This is the case, uncle, you know that these three revolvers are made by my sister in the alchemy magic array. If you want to carry out large-scale production, you must carry out standardized design of each component to achieve Mechanized production and manual assembly requirements.

In addition, a standard bullet production line is required to be designed and manufactured to produce bullets for this brass bullet casing. If my sister is assembled in the alchemy magical array, I believe she can't hold a few hundred a day, and she will soon get bored.

In terms of standardized design and mass production, my sister and I are both laymen and don't know where to start. In addition, I also want to design a long gun, the same bullet that fired this brass shell, but the design of the revolver has made me wrestle my brain, how can I not think of the launch structure of the long gun..... .

So I hope that you and Sonya can stay and help me. If you like, I can build a gun laboratory for you to meet all your requirements..."

A firearms laboratory costs a lot, the machinery needed, and the test consumables are not rare. In particular, both Master Bird and Sonya are rune magicians, and the consumption of some magic materials is a great expense. Claude went to the laboratory where the master of the war was built by the master of the firearms repair workshop. It can only be said to be very simple, and the conditions of the sister's laboratory can not be compared. So Sonya can only use the good guns in the name of the master of the gun repair workshop to test, and spoiled too many barrels to lead the protesters.

Sonya smiled and promised her little lover: "I can stay to help you..."

It was Master Bird who had indulged for a while and smiled bitterly: "Claude, I don't want to help you, but there is no external condition here, because a good workshop for making firearms or a production line must have enough. Water power....."

Crowder laughed: "Uncle, we don't need water because we have a fire machine."