A thousand-person match factory can produce 600,000 matches a year, about/kloc-0.2 billion boxes of matches.
Although the matches are small, it takes more than 90 complicated processes to produce a box of matches.
More than 90 processes, some are produced by ourselves, some are outsourced, and matchboxes are outsourced.
Matchbox is divided into inner box and outer box. The earliest inner and outer boxes were all made of wood. After putting a beautiful label (also called spark) on the outer box, the matchbox suddenly became artistic.
Later, the shortage of wood (there was no concept of environmental protection at that time) began to replace wood with paper, and the outer box of matches gradually changed from wood to yellow cardboard.
Small matchbox, paste a lot of programs. The first thing to do is paste. The paste of the inner box (commonly known as small foundation) is thinner, and the paste of the outer box (commonly known as large belt) is thicker.
When pasting a small foundation, divide the slender paper strips into ten stacks and arrange them in a row, dip them in the paste with a soft brush and apply them evenly. Then, stick the note on the right side of the note one by one, and then uncover it one by one. Seal the right side first and then seal the seam, and leave the paper on the left on the table for later use. The next rhythm is to put the sealed small base into a wooden mold, then put a small square chip, slide the paper with your index finger, seal the bottom, and take out the mold to dry for later use.
It's easier to paste a big tape. The large tape is printed on the large cardboard, with ten sheets in horizontal row, five sheets in vertical row, and fifty sheets on the whole page. The lettering with a knife seems to be connected together. If you break it gently, the whole paper will be separated one by one. Then, fold the separated large tapes for later use.
After printing is completed, use a knife to carve preset marks on the big belt. When in use, first pick up a pile of shell paper, twist it open in turn, scrape it open with bamboo pieces, send it from right hand to left hand and bend it one by one, and hold it tightly with left hand for a few seconds to avoid explosion. The outer box does not need to be exposed to the sun, as long as it is dried in the shade.
After drying, the small foundation and the shell should be put together and basically pasted. The last process is to stack matchboxes vertically with a special plate, 20 boxes horizontally and 5 rows vertically. This plate is exactly100; Stack the bundled plates into a 10 stack and tie them tightly. This is 1000 matchboxes.
A skilled worker can paste up to two thousand times a day (that is, all the inner and outer boxes are pasted). Whoever has more children can work overtime and stick more matchboxes. 6 yuan RMB can be obtained by pasting 10000 matchboxes. In the army of paste boxes, there are many people who paste 100 thousand and 150 thousand a month. In that poor era, it was a lot of wealth, enough for the family to have enough food and clothing that month.
At that time, the flour used to make paste was delivered to households, and the paste was used sparingly, and there was a considerable amount of flour left in a few months. In sensitive period, this kind of flour can solve big problems.
As the welfare of the family members of the match factory, posting matchboxes is the best way to earn extra money. If foreign manufacturers want to paste matchboxes, they must find acquaintances and trust relationships, and can only go through the formalities within the scope of distributing paste and collecting finished matchboxes. Otherwise, they can only look at the box and sigh.
Matchbox consumes too much of our childhood, which is dull, repetitive and boring. The only fun is listening to the radio, listening to all kinds of movie recordings and clips: Fighting in the South, Crossing the River and Flower Girl.
Few parents tell stories in the process of pasting boxes. Those stories are the best rewards for children.
Children in the match factory have been troubled by matchboxes for many years, losing their childlike interest and delaying their studies. Few children in the family area of the match factory are admitted to a good school.
The children outside the factory are not much better, either sticking gentamicin boxes, fishing nets or nylon mesh handbags. It is always a pity that these things are mixed in an innocent childhood. Especially the chirping laughter of other children outside the window, it is conceivable that the children who bow their heads to do things interfere.
Think about those days, although hard, but, can face the difficulties of life with adults, hand in hand, * * * to meet the challenges of life, from the heart feel that it is worthwhile.