The art of tanning leather .. by Kennedy David H

Author:Kennedy, David H
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Tanning
Publisher: New York, Baker & Godwin, printers
Published: 1857-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

dissolved, pour them all together into the vat, and run in a sufficient quantity of weak bark liquor. Plunge it well up, and then throw in the hides. If the vat has a wheel in it, it should be run about five minutes every half-hour for the first day. I would let them remain in this liquor twenty-four hours. If the handler has no wheel in it, the hides must be handled up frequently the first day. At the expiration of the twenty-four hours, the stock must be removed,

pendent of each other by 3 cog-wheels, 1 small cog-wheel attached to an iron shaft running parallel over the top of the handling-wheels, with a pulley attached to the one end of it, and is forced around by a belt from the main shaft, running over head through the center of the tannery. By this main shaft all the works in the tannery are run. You will observe that a belt, running from this main shaft, is attached to a pulley connected with the pumps. The pump on the left side supplies the tannery with new liquors. The liquor is let off in the leaches, and runs unto this junk, to be pumped into the tan pits when required. The pump on the right side is used for pumping the old.liquors up into the third story, and run into the leaches; it is first let off in the tan pit, and car-

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