Chapter 114 (1/2)

After making the oil cake, the next step is to squeeze it.

Now at the far left end of the oil cake tank, that is, the other end of the oil cake tank, a round skid is placed. This kind of cushion wood is the key to oil extraction. Its diameter is a little smaller than the iron ring used to make the oil cake. It is at both ends of the oil cake compartment. When extracting oil, it is pointing to these two cushion wood to squeeze the oil cake.

After the skids were put in place, twelve well-made oil cakes and iron rings were put into the oil cake cabin one by one. They squeezed each other tightly, just enough to fill the whole oil cake cabin.

Each oil cake is about 30 jin, and these 12 oil cakes are 360 Jin of broken peanuts.

Finally, put a piece of skid in the right end of the oil cake tank again, and the work of the oil cake tank is complete.

The next step is to put square pieces of wood into the extrusion chamber. Eight square pieces of wood were packed into the rectangular extrusion chamber one by one, and the extrusion chamber was full. The leftmost piece of wood contacted with the thick pad at the rightmost end of the oil cake chamber.

At this time, all the pressing work is finished, and then the final process of oil pressing is to smash a triangular wedge into the gap of eight square blocks in the extrusion chamber.

In front of the oil press, the old wood set up a shelf, which was more than three meters high. Two ropes hung down from the upper beam. At the end of the rope were tied two thigh thick and thin logs about one and a half meters long.

These two logs are the tools to break the wedge.

If the triangle wedge wants to break into the square block which is already very tight, it must use great strength. Although it's OK to smash it with a sledgehammer, it's a very laborious thing. After all, the wooden wedge needs to be smashed into the square block horizontally instead of downward. Therefore, it's a very laborious thing to smash the wooden wedge with a sledgehammer.

The most important thing is that this kind of work is easy to miss even if it's not done well.

So Shi Xiong made such a wooden frame in accordance with the method of the fourth grandfather's oil press workshop. Two logs were hung at two different positions of the cross beam of the wooden frame, and the principle adopted was like a hammer for ringing a bell.

As long as the height of the card is good, then when the log swings up, it will hit the triangle wedge accurately every time, and there is no need to worry about the deviation.

Moreover, each log weighs more than 200 Jin. Once it swings up, the force of hitting the triangle wedge is even greater than that of swinging a sledgehammer. The most important thing is that using this method, the operator only needs a little effort to swing up the log, which is much easier than swinging a sledgehammer.

Stone bear himself stood in front of the log on the far right, then pushed the hanging log, and the log swung up quickly.

”Bang”, accompanied by a dull knock, the triangular wedge was smashed into a bar, and then after a second or two, the same sound came out again, and the wedge was smashed into a bar again.

All the clansmen were stunned to see all this. They found that the squeeze bed, which had been so crowded that they could not put anything any more, was smashed in with the wedge. No matter it was the wood or the oil cake, they began to move, and the squeeze was even tighter than before.

But the problem is, can you squeeze out the peanut oil just like this?