The Principles of Leather Manufacture

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY AND HISTORICAL.

CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF LEATHER MANUFACTURE.

CHAPTER III. THE LIVING CELL.

CHAPTER IV. PUTREFACTION AND FERMENTATION.

CHAPTER V. ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS.

CHAPTER VI. THE ORIGIN AND CURING OF HIDES AND SKINS.

CHAPTER VII. STRUCTURE AND GROWTH OF SKIN.

CHAPTER VIII. THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF SKIN.

CHAPTER IX. THE PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF THE HIDE-FIBRE.

CHAPTER X. WATER AS USED IN THE TANNERY.

CHAPTER XI. SOAKING AND SOFTENING OF HIDES AND SKINS.

CHAPTER XII. DEPILATION.

CHAPTER XIII. DELIMING, BATING, PUERING AND DRENCHING.

CHAPTER XIV. ALUM TANNAGE OR TAWING.

CHAPTER XV. IRON AND CHROME TANNAGES.

CHAPTER XVI. PRINCIPLES OF THE VEGETABLE TANNING PROCESSES.

CHAPTER XVII. COMBINATION OF VEGETABLE AND MINERAL TANNAGE.

CHAPTER XVIII. VEGETABLE TANNING MATERIALS.

CHAPTER XIX. THE CHEMISTRY OF THE TANNINS.

CHAPTER XX. THE SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF TANNING MATERIALS.

CHAPTER XXI. GRINDING OF TANNING MATERIALS.

CHAPTER XXII. THE EXTRACTION OF TANNING MATERIALS, AND THE MAKING OF EXTRACTS.

CHAPTER XXIII. FATS, SOAPS, OILS AND WAXES.

CHAPTER XXIV. OIL TANNAGES, AND THE USE OF OILS AND FATS IN CURRYING.

CHAPTER XXV. DYES AND DYEING.

CHAPTER XXVI. EVAPORATION, HEATING AND DRYING.

CHAPTER XXVII. CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF TANNERIES.

CHAPTER XXVIII. WASTE PRODUCTS AND THEIR DISPOSAL.

APPENDICES.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

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THE PRINCIPLES
OF
LEATHER MANUFACTURE


Frontispiece.

PLATE I.

Section of Calf-skin. (For key, see Fig. 9.)


THE PRINCIPLES
OF
Leather Manufacture

BY
H. R. PROCTER, F.I.C. F.C.S.

PROFESSOR OF LEATHER INDUSTRIES AT THE YORKSHIRE COLLEGE, LEEDS;
PAST PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF LEATHER TRADES CHEMISTS

London:
E. & F. N. SPON, Limited, 125 STRAND

New York:
SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 123 LIBERTY STREET

1903


Dedicated to
PROFESSOR F. L. KNAPP
GEHEIMEN HOFRATH, DR. PHIL. AND DR. ING.
THE PIONEER OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
IN LEATHER MANUFACTURE


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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