Zainhammer

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"Zeinhammer" in Ständebuch of Christoph Weigel (1698)
Frohnauer hammer : stuff, Zain and weapon hammer
Zainhammer of the Tulleck hammer mill

A Zainhammer (also tooth hammer ) belongs to the iron-processing iron hammers . In an iron-producing rail or bar hammer , iron was produced in the form of thick bars, so-called rails . In this form it was not yet suitable for blacksmiths and locksmiths. For this reason, the rails were processed into rods and rods with a smaller cross-section or into square, round and flat iron or into Zainen . This happened in the Zain hammers ( zainen = stretch, stretch).

A Zainhammer consisted of a forge fire and one or more water-powered tail hammers . The bear weight of such a hammer was between 60 and 80 kg, the number of blows was up to 250 blows per minute. The rails were heated in the fire as quickly as possible under the hammers stretched out . Bars with a length of up to 14 feet were made from a rail . These were separated according to type and sold in bushes.

The Zainhammer could both be part of a hammer mill, in which the pig iron was melted out and manufactured, and it could also be operated independently. Sometimes an ironworks hammer and gun hammer operated at the same time .

Often the Zainhämmer were founded near the cities, i.e. the possible customers, and less in the country. The main customers of Zaineisen were small wrought and Nagelschmiede , produced the finished products thereof as nails and spoons.

Examples of spanking hammers

literature

  • Götschmann, Dirk: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ed. Association of Friends and Patrons of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria (= Volume 5 of the series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria), Theuern 1985, p. 202. ISBN 3 924350 05 1 .

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