Sail across the sea

Chapter 184
"This shape is still a little..., uh, it's still a little bit far from my expectation."

This is in the Art Teaching and Research Office of No. [-] Middle School in Yupu County, Gao Fan flipped through a few pieces of drawing paper, and said euphemistically.

After signing the contract with Yu Guorong for the production of plastic bottles, Gao Fan called back to Cangtang and asked Gao Yiping to wire a deposit of 5000 yuan to Chengda Plastic Factory, and then urged Yu Guorong to design the plastic bottles as soon as possible.

Gao Fan conducts business outside under the banner of Canghua Company, but in fact, this company is just another name for the labor service company of Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory. There is no systematic administrative organization at all, and it involves things like capital exchanges , I can only ask the finance department of Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory to act as an agent.

Gao Fan is not in a hurry to establish his own administrative system. The Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory has a ready-made system available, so why should he build another one?

So far, all the employees of Canghua Company are unemployed youths from the chemical fertilizer factory. Even if there are some talents that can be used, they still need to go through some honing. Gao Fan has enough patience to wait.

After Yu Guorong received the deposit, he immediately began to arrange the design and production of the mold.

The design of the spray part is not difficult. After all, the principle is there. With the industrial foundation of Renqiao, it is no problem to design and manufacture such a device.

The difficulty lies in the shape design of the plastic bottle, which was unexpected by Yu Guorong.

According to Yu Guorong and Chen Xingquan's original idea, isn't a plastic bottle just a cylinder?Or to be more particular, it is also possible to make a cylinder with an elliptical cross-section.

But when Yu Guorong took two blueprints and asked Gao Fan to choose one, Gao Fan showed a look of disgust.He said that his products are going to be exported to Japan. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to use such an ugly bottle and throw it abroad?

Both Yu Guorong and Chen Xingquan felt unable to refute Gao Fan's reason.The products they made in the past were all sold domestically.In this era, Chinese people have no requirements for the appearance design of products, and sturdiness and cheapness are king.

As for looking good, it’s a big deal to put a label of coconut tree style, red and green, isn’t that enough?
But Gao Fan said that the products should be exported overseas, and foreigners are very picky, so what else can Yu Guorong say?
Now, some Renqiao people who got rich first are keen to buy imported consumer goods. Yu Guorong and Chen Xingquan also have imported electrical appliances in their homes. They have to admit that things made by foreigners are more beautiful than those made by China.

Gao Fan remembered some of the designs of later generations, but he couldn't draw them accurately.In desperation, Yu Guorong had no choice but to bring Gao Fan to Yupu County and seek help from Qiu Zhiping, an art teacher at County No. [-] Middle School.

In the past, when Yu Guorong met customers with special requirements for product appearance design, he always asked Qiu Zhiping for help. Qiu Zhiping was Yu Guorong's dedicated designer.

"Isn't it just a plastic bottle? Let me draw some shapes for you."

Qiu Zhiping was very talkative, so he drew a few bottles at random. They were fat and thin, but they were really eye-catching.Yu Guorong had introduced to Gao Fan before, saying that Lao Qiu also graduated from a top art school in China, but because of the movement, he was reduced to the status of a middle school teacher in a place like Yupu.

"This won't work, it doesn't meet the ergonomic requirements."

Gao Fan was not completely fooled by the appearance of the plastic roof, he was picky from a professional point of view.

"What ergonomics?" Qiu Zhiping was a little confused.

"It's ergonomics, which is about the negotiation relationship between people and products." Gao Fan explained, and then began to comment on these designs of Qiu Zhiping:

The chubby shape looks cute, but it is inconvenient to hold it with one hand.

The shape of the slender strip, the volume cannot be guaranteed, and the same cannot be done.

This gourd-shaped one is ingenious, and the place where you can shake hands is too far away from the button of the nozzle...

Qiu Zhiping understood immediately.Regardless of whether he was a proud artist in the past, after staying in a place like Renqiao for a long time, he became pragmatic, and he did not have the slightest resistance to Gao Fan's request.

So he continued to design, with Gao Fan picking at him, the old and the young chatted happily, but he didn't notice that Yu Guorong's face was getting uglier.

"Okay, that's what I want!"

Gao Fan finally made a decision.The bottle designed by Lao Qiu is both industrial and artistic, and it is not inferior to those beautiful bottles that Gao Fan has seen in later generations.

An artist once said that the pursuit of beauty is timeless.

but……

Technology has its time.

Looking at the manuscript jointly designed by Gao Fan and Qiu Zhiping, Yu Guorong wept:
"Brother Gao, this bottle looks really good, but how do you want me to open the mold?"

The mold is processed by a machine tool. It is best to open a cylindrical mold and roll it out directly on a lathe.The square shape is also easy to handle. Planing first and then milling is also a routine operation.

But the shape that Gao Fan wants is an S-shaped line from top to bottom. What kind of equipment should be used to process it?
People always say that things from the past are ugly, but they don’t know that this is not a difference in aesthetics between the two generations, but a difference in processing ability.

For example, in the past, a certain truck factory produced military trucks that were boxy and neither aesthetically pleasing nor aerodynamically compliant, but it had the advantage that it was very easy to manufacture.

The streamlined front requires special molds and a high-pressure stamping machine.As for the front of the car with a square head and a square brain, the steel plate can be folded directly with a bending machine, and the requirements for production equipment have been reduced by several levels, which is the most suitable for a poor country.

The daily necessities of later generations can pursue the aesthetic feeling of appearance because the level of mold manufacturing has been improved. Using a composite machining center can break through the processing limitations of lathes and milling machines, and it is easy to produce streamlined molds.

But now, where can Yu Guorong find a compound machining center for Gao Fan?
"Lao Yu, you mean you can't open such a mold?" Gao Fan asked.

Yu Guorong shook his head: "It's not that I can't make it, there is no factory in the entire Renqiao area that can make such a mold."

"Is there any in Shuinan Province?" Gao Fan continued to ask.

Yu Guorong said: "There are several large machinery factories in the province. They have good equipment and some skilled old workers. Maybe they can make this mold. However, I can't talk to these factories. Please help them open such a mold." A mould, people don't even care about me."

With a thought, Gao Fan asked, "Is the technology of Shuinan Chemical Equipment Factory enough?"

"That's definitely enough." Yu Guorong said, "Its technology ranks first in our province."

"Then there's no problem." Gao Fan said confidently.

(End of this chapter)