Leather Manufacture: a Practical Handbook of Tanning, Currying, And Chrome ...
Leather Manufacture: a Practical Handbook of Tanning, Currying, And Chrome ...
Alexander Watt
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50). The second man then takes the bag from the funnel and inflates it with his breath, after which he closes the aperture by tying it 886 LEATHER MANUFACTURE. with a piece of string. The bag, in its distended condition, 18 perfectly free from wrinkles, the presence of which would interfere with the uniform action of the tanning material, and its contained air enables the bag to float in the liquor of the larger vessel. All the bags, as they are filled, are thrown into this larger tub, in which... they float like bladders, and they are kept in constant motion for about three hours in this way : two men, one on each Fig. 50. side of the tub, take each a wooden paddle, which they work to and fro in the solution, causing the floating bags to roll gently over and over, by which the sumac solution in the bags becomes uniformly difiused over their inner surface, and eventually permeates the entire substance of the skin ; the absorption of the tanning principle is greatly aided by the warm temperature of the solution in which the skins are floated.
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