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US 4,060,384 AGranted
Manufacture of leather
AssigneeSeton Company
InventorMarcel Siegler
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InventorMarcel Siegler
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Manufacture of grain and split leather is simplified by pre-tanning hide with a chromium-free tan until its shrinkage temperature is about 170.degree. to about 185.degree. F, splitting the pre-tanned hide to provide a grain intermediate and a split intermediate, shaving at least one of these intermediates, and chrome-tanning the shaved intermediate. Shavings contain no chromium and can be disposed of by dumping, without significant environmental impact. Before splitting, the hide can also be pickled to improve the splitting and shaving and make the unfinished hide better suited for shipping to remote geographical areas. Entire hide treatment sequence can be effected with two stages in which batches of hides are loaded in a container such as tumbling drum; unhairing, bating and pre-tanning with or without a pickle, all in one stage, and final tanning, coloring and fat-liquoring in another stage. Final chrome-tanned product has very good physical characteristics including unusually high slot tear and is recovered in higher yield.
In the manufacture of grain and split leather from a hide, the improvement according to which the hide is subjected to a pre-tanning with an essentially chromium-free tan until its shrinkage temperature is about 170.degree. to about 185.degree. F, the pre-tanned hide is split to provide a pre-tanned grain intermediate and a pre-tanned split intermediate, at least one of these intermediates is shaved to give it a more uniform caliper, and the shaved intermediate is chrome-tanned into leather.
The process of shipping a hide for tanning in remote geographical locations, which process comprises pickling and pre-tanning the hide to a shrinkage temperature of from about 170 to about 185.degree. F using an essentially chromium-free pre-tanning, and then shipping the thus treated hide.
The process of preparing chrome-tanned grain leather from cattle hide in a yield at least about 3% greater than provided by the lime-splitting method, said process comprising pre-tanning the unsplit hide with an essentially chromium-free tan until its shrinkage temperature is about 170.degree. to about 185.degree. F, splitting the pre-tanned hide to provide a grain intermediate, shaving that intermediate, and chrome-tanning the shaved intermediate.
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