DK177975B1 - Apparatus for processing of pelts having helical scraping rollers - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus is disclosed for processing the skin side of a tubular pelt (3) and comprising a mandrel (1) for supporting the pelt (3) with its skin side turned outwards, a scraping device (5) comprising a first pair of primary scraping rollers (7,8) arranged on opposing sides of the mandrel (1) and a second pair of primary scraping rollers (9, 10) arranged on other opposing sides of the mandrel (1), which are rotated during processing of a pelt (3) so as to engage a skin side of the pelt (3), and moving means for conducting a relative movement between the scraping device (5) and the mandrel (1), wherein the two scraping rollers (7, 8) of the first pair each has a plurality of helical scraping edges (15, 16) and are arranged to impose force components transversal to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1) acting in opposite directions on the skin side of a pelt (3).

Description

APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING OF PELTS HAVING HELICAL SCRAPING ROLLERS

The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing the skin side of a tubular pelt by scraping the skin side by means of rotating helical scraping rollers.

Background A fresh pelt taken from a furred animal such as a mink normally has a layer or residues of fat, tendons and / or flesh that is firmly attached to the skin side of the pelt. Before the pelt can be used for further processing, such layers or residues must be removed from the skin side. A prior art apparatus for processing such pelts to remove layers or residues of fat, tendons and / or flesh on the skin side is described in Danish patent specification DK 156 669. This apparatus comprises a single scraper roller with V-shaped scraping elements to scrape the skin on each side of a mandrel, on which a tubular pelt is arranged with the skin side facing outwards.

The area below the front leg skin parts, i.e. The skin parts used to cover the animal's front legs are difficult to process completely and a residue of fat may be left from the processing by the primary scraping rollers which may cause damages to the pelt as the fat may affect the fur side of the pelt negatively.

Danish patent specification DK 173 611 describes an apparatus for processing pelts on a mandrel. The apparatus comprises several scraper rollers which, while scraping the skin side of the pelt, cause the pelt to rotate about its longitudinal axis in order to obtain a complete scraping of the entire surface of the skin side.

European patent specification EP 2 093 299 discloses an apparatus for processing pelts comprising two scraper rollers engaging the same part of the pelt but driven in opposite directions of rotation to obtain an improved scraping behind and beneath the front legs by achieving both a friction force against a thick end of a mandrel on which a pelt is arranged and a friction force against the thin end of the mandrel. WO 2012/019606 A1 discloses an apparatus for scraping the skin side of a tubular pelt, where the relative motion of the mandrel and the scraper rollers is slower when the scraper roller processes the first part of the skin side of the tubular pelt for improved scraping of the area around the front legs and the neck of the pelt. Additionally or alternatively, the means for biasing the scraper rollers against the skin side may be equipped with a damper arrangement for damping the movement of the scraper rollers towards and away from the skin side, which is also intended to improve the scraping quality in particular around the front legs. DK 177 165 discloses an apparatus for processing the skin side of a tubular pelt which apart from primary scraping rollers comprises at least one further treatment means having a direction of treatment which deviates at least 175 ° from the relative direction of movement of the mandrel and with one or more axes of rotation that deviates from the direction of rotation of the primary scraping roller.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved apparatus for processing the skin side of a tubular pelt where the cleaning of the skin side is satisfactory.

Brief description of the invention

The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing the skin side of a tubular pelt, the apparatus comprising an elongated tapering mandrel of a substantially rectangular cross-section for supporting the pelt with its skin side turned outwards, the mandrel having a thinner, free end from which the tubular pelt is drawn over the mandrel and a thicker end, a scraping device comprising a first pair of primary scraping rollers arranged on opposite sides of the mandrel and a second pair of primary scraping rollers arranged on other opposite sides of the mandrel and being substantially perpendicularly oriented with respect to the first pair of primary scraping rollers, the scraping device further comprising primary rotation means for rotating said primary scraping rollers during processing of a pelt so as to engage a skin side of the pelt, and moving means for conducting a relative movement between the scraping device and the mandrel in the longitudinal direction of the mandrel, whe clean the two scraping rollers of the first pair of primary scraping rollers each has a plurality of scraping edges extending substantially helically along the longitudinal direction of the scraping rollers, and said two scraping rollers are arranged to impose force components transversal to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel acting in opposite directions on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt.

The apparatus is provided with a tail scraping roller provided with a plurality of scraping edges of a substantially symmetrical configuration, so that said tail scraping roller will impose a substantially zero resulting force component on the skin side of a pelt in a longitudinal direction of the tail scraping roller during its engagement with the skin side of a pelt, the tail scraping roller being arranged to scrape a skin part of the tail of the pelt. Hereby, the skin side of the tail will be properly processed because it will be fully scraped by a scraping roller of a symmetrical configuration as opposed to a scraping roller having helical scraping edges, which may just turn the tail part of the pelt to the side to be directed transversely to the mandrel without being properly scraped. Said tail scraping roller of a substantially symmetrical configuration preferably has a configuration of the scraping edges selected from the group consisting of V-shaped, U-shaped and straight scraping edges.

The first pair of primary scraping rollers will in operation of the apparatus together impose a rotational force (i.e. a torque) on the pelt around the longitudinal axis of the mandrel. The torque imposed by the first pair of primary scraping rollers will turn the pelt a fraction as the sides of the skin side of the pelt are scraped by the first pair of primary scraping rollers so that the part of the skin side of the pelt near the four comers of the mandrel will be angularly displaced to the sides of the mandrel, where two opposing comer parts will be scraped by the first pair of primary scraping rollers and the other two comers parts of the skin side of the pelt will be scraped by the second pair of the primary scraping rollers, so that the entire skin side of the pelt is satisfactorily processed by the primary scraping rollers.

The two scraping rollers have a substantially parallel axis of rotation.

The magnitudes of said force components of the scraping rollers of the first pair of primary scraping rollers transversal to the mandrel are substantially equal so that the pelt is not subjected to excessive shear.

The force components parallel to the mandrel imposed by the two scraping rollers of the first pair of primary scraping rollers on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt are preferably both directed toward the thicker end of the mandrel so that said force components assist in maintaining the pelt stretched towards the thicker end of the mandrel.

The two scraping rollers of the second pair of primary scraping rollers preferably have a plurality of scraping edges extending substantially helically along the longitudinal direction of the scraping rollers, and the two scraping rollers of the second pair of primary scraping rollers are preferably arranged to impose force components transversal to the mandrel acting in opposite directions on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt, so that the second pair of primary scraping rollers will tend to rotate the pelt in the opposite direction around a longitudinal direction of the mandrel than the first pair of primary scraping rollers. This will ensure that all the parts of the skin side of the pelt, in particular the parts near the comers of the mandrel will be fully processed and at the same time prevent the pelt from being twisted due to the processing by the scraping device .

The magnitudes of the force components of the scraping rollers of the second pair of primary scraping rollers transversal to the mandrel are similarly substantially equal, and the force components parallel to the mandrel imposed by the two scraping rollers of the second pair of primary scraping rollers on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt, both are preferably also directed towards the thicker end of the mandrel.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first pair of primary scraping rollers and the second pair of primary scraping rollers are arranged adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction of the mandrel.

The apparatus may further comprise another scraping roller arranged to simultaneously engage the skin side of a pelt on the opposite side of the mandrel as the tail scraping roller so as to counter the pressing force of the tail scraping roller on the pelt and thus the mandrel in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel.

The apparatus may further comprise a first pair of secondary scraping rollers, the two scraping rollers of the first pair of secondary scraping rollers each having a plurality of scraping edges extending substantially helically along the longitudinal direction of the scraping rollers, and said two scraping rollers are arranged to impose force components transverse to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel acting in opposite directions on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt, the apparatus further comprising secondary rotation means for rotating said secondary scraping rollers during processing of a pelt. The secondary scraping rollers are applied to improve the scraping of the skin side of the pelt and are arranged in a particularly preferred embodiment to process the skin parts of the pelt that have covered the front legs of the animal.

The magnitudes of said force components of the scraping rollers of the first pair of secondary scraping rollers transversal to the mandrel are substantially equal, and the force components parallel to the mandrel imposed by the two scraping rollers of the first pair of secondary scraping rollers on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt both are directed towards the thicker end of the mandrel.

The first pair of secondary scraping rollers are preferably arranged to engage the skin side of a pelt on the same, opposite sides of the mandrel as the first pair of primary scraping rollers. In one embodiment, the two scraping rollers of the first pair of secondary scraping rollers are arranged to impose force components transverse to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel acting in opposite directions on the skin side of a pelt as the corresponding scraping rollers of the first pair of primary scraping rollers during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt. Thus, the skin side of the pelt may be subjected to transverse forces in two different directions, which will improve the scraping of the skin side of the pelt, especially in the situation where the first pair of secondary scraping rollers and thus the first pair of primary scraping rollers are arranged to process the skin parts of the pelt that have covered the front legs of the animal, whereby these skin parts are scraped when they are turned upwards as well as downwards and therefore are scraped on all sides as well as the surrounding skin parts.

The apparatus may further comprise a second pair of secondary scraping rollers arranged on other opposite sides of the mandrel and being substantially perpendicularly oriented with respect to the first pair of secondary scraping rollers, and the two scraping rollers of the second pair of secondary scraping rollers may each have a plurality of scraping edges extending substantially helically along the longitudinal direction of the scraping rollers.

The two scraping rollers of the second pair of secondary scraping rollers may preferably be arranged to impose force components transversal to the mandrel acting in opposite directions on the skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt, so that the second pair of secondary scraping rollers will tend to rotate the pelt in the opposite direction around a longitudinal direction of the mandrel than the first pair of secondary scraping rollers.

The magnitudes of said force components of the scraping rollers of the second pair of secondary scraping rollers transversal to the mandrel are substantially equal, and the force components parallel to the mandrel imposed by the two scraping rollers of the second pair of secondary scraping rollers on The skin side of a pelt during their engagement with the skin side of a pelt are both preferably directed towards the thicker end of the mandrel.

The first pair of secondary scraping rollers and the second pair of secondary scraping rollers are preferably arranged adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction of the mandrel.

Said moving means consists in a preferred embodiment of the present invention of mandrel drive means for driving the mandrel in a longitudinal direction thereof during processing of a pelt.

Brief description of the figures

Embodiment of the present invention is shown in the accompanying drawing of which

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a first embodiment of an apparatus but without a tail scraping roller,

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of an apparatus according to the present invention,

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the apparatus of FIG. 1 further provided with a tail scraping roller in accordance with the present invention,

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a third embodiment of an apparatus being provided with eight helical scraping rollers but without a tail scraping roller, and

FIG. 5 is two side views of a mandrel and helical scraping rollers for illustration of the forces imposed on a pelt on the mandrel by the helical scraping rollers.

The embodiments shown in Figs. 1 and 4 are depicted without the tail scraping roller according to claim 1 and therefore do not represent embodiments of the present invention.

Detailed description of an embodiment of the invention The furred animal, in this example a mink, has been skinned and the fresh pelt 3 has been turned inside out and drawn onto the mandrel 1 with the fur side towards the surface of the mandrel 1 and the skin side, also known as the flesh side, outwards and ready to be processed by the scraping device 5. This processing is intended to remove flesh residues, fat, tendons and other material from the skin side of the fur. The pelt 3 comprises the skin part of e.g. the tail 6 and the skin parts 32 of the pelt 3 that covered the front legs of the animal. The pelt 3 is arranged in the drawing with the tail 6 and consequently the back side of the pelt 3 on top of the mandrel 1, the front leg skin parts 32 on the side of the mandrel 1 and the belly side of the pelt 3 on the lower side of the mandrel 1. A scraping apparatus without the tail scraping roller according to claim 1, which apparatus is for scraping the skin side of tubular pelts, in particular mink pelts is shown in FIG. 1, comprising a tapered, horizontal mandrel 1 having a thinner front end 2 from which the pelt 3 is drawn onto the mandrel 1 and a thicker end 4 which is connected to mandrel moving means (not shown) for moving the mandrel 1 in a longitudinal direction thereof towards the scraping device 5 during the processing of a pelt 3 and back to the starting position of the mandrel 1 in a return stroke. The mandrel 1 is of a square cross-sectional shape and the scraping device 5 is designed for processing each of the four sides of the pelt 3 drawn onto the mandrel 1.

The scraping device 5 is arranged stationary on a frame (not shown) of the apparatus and comprises four primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 arranged in two pairs, a first pair 7, 8 arranged on the opposite vertical side of the mandrel 1 for scraping the vertical sides of the skin side of the pelt 3 arranged on the mandrel 1 and a second pair 9, 10 for scraping the horizontal sides of the skin side of the pelt 3. Each primary scraping roller 7, 8, 9, 10 is driven by an individual motor 11, 12, 13, 14. The primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 are provided with helical scraping edges 15, 16, 17, 18 arranged so that all four primary scraping rollers 7 , 8, 9, 10 impose a force on the pelt 3 in the direction towards the thicker end 4 of the mandrel 1 whereby the pelt 3 is stretched on the mandrel 1 and remains stretched during the processing of the pelt 3. The first pair 7 , 8 of the primary scraping rollers are formed and driven as shown in FIG. 1 so that one scraping roller 7 furthermore imposes an upwardly force component to the skin side of the pelt 3 and the other scraping roller 8 imposes a downwardly force component to the skin side of the pelt 3 so that the first pair 7, 8 of primary Scraping rollers together imposes a rotational force (ie a torque) on the pelt 3 in a clockwise direction as indicated by an arrow on Fig. 1. The second pair of primary scraping rollers 9, 10 has scraping edges 17, 18 formed oppositely, so that the second pair of scraping rollers 9, 10 impose forces transverse to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 to provide a torque on the pelt that is opposite to the torque imposed by the first pair 7, 8 of the primary scraping rollers, ie in the counter clockwise direction as indicated by the corresponding arrow in FIG. 1. The torque imposed by the first pair 7, 8 of primary scraping rollers will turn the pelt 3 a fraction clockwise as the left and right sides of the skin side of the pelt 3 are scraped so that the part of the skin side of the pelt 3 near the four comers of the mandrel 1 will be angularly displaced to the sides of the mandrel, where said comer parts of the skin side of the pelt 3 at the two sides of the mandrel 1 will be scraped by the first pair 7, 8 or primary scraping rollers. The comers parts of the skin side of the pelt 3 displaced to the upper and lower sides of the mandrel 1 will in turn be scraped by the second pair 9, 10 of the primary scraping rollers, so that the whole skin side of the pelt is satisfactory processed by the primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10. The torques are of substantially the same magnitude, so that the pelt 3 after being processed by means of both pairs of primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 will be displaced angularly to substantially the original position of the pelt 3 without a twist to the pelt. In an alternative embodiment as shown in FIG. 2, one or both of the second pair 9, 10 of primary scraping rollers are instead provided with scraping edges 18 'of a Y-shaped configuration which will provide for a satisfactory scraping of the skin side of the pelt 3 without imposing a torque on the pelt 3. Such scraping rollers 9, 10 provided with scraping edges 18 'of a V-shaped configuration which will stretch the pelt 3 on the mandrel 1 away from the comers of the mandrel 1 and towards the center of the plane sides of the mandrel 1 and ensure that the part of the pelt 3 near and at the comers of the mandrel 1 will be processed by both sets of primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 and thus be sufficiently cleaned for the subsequent processing of the pelt 3 , starting with the drying of the pelt 3. In particular, the provision of a scraping roller with scraping edges of a Y-shaped configuration at the side of the mandrel 1 where the tail part 6 of the pelt 3 will be arranged ensures that this part of the pelt 3 is sufficiently cleaned as the scraping roller imposes a substantially zero resulting force on the pelt 3 in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 and the tail part 6 will thus be sufficiently cleaned by such scraping roller, whereas a scraping roller having helical scraping edges may force the tail part 6 to be oriented substantially transverse to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 and therefore be insufficiently scraped. That may in turn leave excessive fat or meat residues on the tail part 6 that during drying of the pelt 3 can cause a reduction in the quality of the pelt 3. Similar results could be achieved by a roller having scraping edges of a U-shaped configuration or a straight configuration, ie extending substantially parallel to the center axis of the scraping roller.

In FIG. 3, an embodiment is shown where the apparatus of FIG. 1 has been further provided with a tail scraping roller 19 provided with scraping edges 20 of a V-shaped configuration with the above discussed advantages. A third embodiment of an apparatus but without the tail scraping roller according to claim 1 is shown in FIG. 4, which is further equipped with secondary scraping rollers 21, 22, 23, 24 displaced in the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 with respect to the primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 to improve the scraping of the skin side of the pelt 3 further. The secondary scraping rollers comprise a first pair of scraping rollers 21, 22 which are arranged on opposite sides of the mandrel 1 corresponding to the first pair of primary scraping rollers 7, 8 and a second pair of secondary scraping rollers 23, 24 which are arranged on the other opposite sides of the mandrel 1 corresponding to the second pair of primary scraping rollers 9, 10. Each secondary scraping roller 21, 22, 23, 24 is driven by an individual motor 25, 26, 27. The secondary scraping rollers 21 , 22, 23, 24 are provided in the shown embodiment with helical scraping edges 28, 29, 30, 31 which are arranged similar to the primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 so that all of them impose a force on the pelt 3 in the direction towards the thicker end 4 of the mandrel 1. The first pair 21, 22 of the secondary scraping rollers are formed and driven as shown in FIG. 4 so that one scraping roller 21 furthermore imposes an upwardly force component to the skin side of the pelt 3 and the other scraping roller 22 imposes a downwardly force component to the skin side of the pelt 3, the first pair 21, 22 thus imposing a torque on the pelt 3 in a clockwise direction as indicated by an arrow on FIG. 4 and the second pair 23, 24 of secondary scraping rollers has scraping edges 30, 31 formed oppositely, so that the scraping rollers 23, 24 impose a torque on the pelt which is in the opposite direction of the torque imposed by the first pair 21 , 22 of the secondary scraping rollers, ie in the counter clockwise direction as indicated by the corresponding arrow in FIG. 4. The impact of the secondary scraping rollers 21, 22, 23, 24 on the pelt 3 will be similar to the impact of the primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10 as described previously.

In an alternative embodiment of the apparatus shown in FIG. 4, the secondary scraping rollers 21, 22, 23, 24 are configured mirrored to the primary scraping rollers 7, 8, 9, 10, so that the first pair 21, 22 of secondary scraping rollers imposes a torque on the pelt 3 in the counter clockwise direction, whereas the second pair 23, 24 of secondary scraping rollers imposes a torque on the pelt 3 in the clockwise direction. This alternative configuration has the advantage that the scraping rollers 7, 21 processing the same skin part 32 of the pelt 3 which have covered the front legs of the animal will impose transverse forces to the pelt in opposite direction and thus ensure that the skin parts 32 as well as their surroundings will be thoroughly scraped. The area beneath the front leg skin parts 32 is difficult to process completely and a residue of fat may be left from processing by the primary scraping roller 7 which may cause damages to the pelt as the fat may adversely affect the fur side of the pelt . Therefore, when the scraping roller 7 of the primary scraping rollers imposes an upward force on the front leg skin part 32 and the scraping roller 21 of the secondary scraping rollers imposes a downward force on the front leg skin part 32, a thorough scraping of the area around and in particular beneath the front leg skin part 32 will be achieved. The same will be the case for the front leg skin part on the opposite side of the mandrel 1 which is processed by the opposing scraping rollers 8, 22.

In yet another alternative embodiment of the apparatus shown in FIG. 4, one of the scraping rollers 10, 24 processing the pelt 3 on the side of mandrel 1 where the tail part 6 of the pelt 3 will be arranged may instead be provided with scraping edges 18, 31 of a V-shaped configuration which will Ensure that this part 6 of the pelt 3 is sufficiently cleaned as the scraping roller imposes a substantially zero resulting force on the pelt 3 in the direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 and the tail part 6 will thus be sufficiently cleaned by such scraping roller. In yet another alternative embodiment of the apparatus shown in FIG. 4, the apparatus is provided with a separate tail scraping roller 19 provided with scraping edges 20 of a V-shaped configuration as the one shown in FIG. 3 with the above-discussed advantages.

In FIG. 5, the mandrel 1 together with the first pair 7, 8 of primary scraping rollers is shown from the right side on the top of Fig. 5 and from the left side on the bottom of FIG. 5. The scraping edges 15, 16 of the scraping rollers 7, 8 impose forces F7, F8 on the skin side of the pelt 3 having an angle a to the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 so that the force F7 is imposed by one scraping roller 7 has a component towards the thicker end 4 of the mandrel 1 and an upward component, whereas the other scraping roller 8 imposes a force F8 with a component towards the thicker end of the mandrel 1 as well as a downward component. During operation, the mandrel 1 is moved in the direction indicated by the arrow MD in the longitudinal direction of the mandrel 1 towards its thinner end 2.

List of reference numerals 1 Mandrel 2 Thinner front end of mandrel 3 Pelt 4 Thicker end of mandrel 5 Scraping device 6 Skin part of tail 7, 8 Scraping rollers of first pair of primary scraping rollers 9, 10 Scraping rollers of second pair of primary Scraping rollers 11, 12, 13, 14 Motors for driving the primary scraping rollers 14 'Motor for driving the tail scraping roller 15, 16, 17, 18 Helical scraping edges of the primary scraping rollers 18' V-shaped scraping edges 19 Tail scraping roller 20 V-shaped scraping edges of tail scraping roller 21, 22 Scraping rollers of the first pair of secondary scraping rollers 23, 24 Scraping rollers of the second pair of secondary scraping rollers 25, 26, 27 Motors for driving the secondary scraping rollers 28 , 29, 30, 31 Helical scraping edges of the secondary scraping rollers 32 Skin parts of the pelt that covered the front legs of the animal F7 Force replaced by one primary scraping roller on the pelt F8 Force imposed by a second prim ary scraping roller on the pelt MD Direction of movement of the mandrel an Angle between force imposed by a primary scraping roller on the pelt and the longitudinal direction of the mandrel

Claims (22)

Apparatus for treating the leather side of a tubular coat (3), comprising an elongate tapered mandrel (1) having a substantially rectangular cross-section for supporting the fur (3) with its leather face facing outwardly, said mandrel (1) has a thinner free end (2) from which end the tubular coat (3) is pulled over the mandrel (1) and a thicker end (4), a scraper device (5) comprising a first pair of primary scraper rolls (7, 8) disposed on opposite sides of the mandrel (1), a second pair of primary scraper rollers (9, 10) disposed on other opposite sides of the mandrel (1) and substantially oriented perpendicular to the first a pair of primary scraper rolls (7, 8), the scraping device (5) further comprising primary rotary means (11, 12, 13, 14) for rotating the primary scraper rolls (7, 8, 9, 10) during processing of a fur (3) for engaging a leather side of the fur (3), and, means of movement for performing a relative movement between the scraper (5) and the mandrel (1) in the longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1), wherein the two scraper rolls (7, 8) of the first pair of primary scraper rolls each have a plurality of scraper edges (15, 16) extending substantially helical along the longitudinal direction of the scraper rolls (7, 8) and wherein the two scraper rolls (7, 8) are arranged to apply force components across the longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1) acting in opposite directions on the leather side of a fur ( 3) when in engagement with the leather side of a fur (3) and wherein the device comprises a tail scraper roller (10, 19) provided with a plurality of scraper edges (18 ') having a substantially symmetrical configuration, thus the tail scraper roller (10, 19) will apply a resultant force component of substantially zero on the leather side of a fur (3) in a longitudinal direction of the tail scraper roller when it engages the leather side of a fur (3), wherein the tail scraper roller is adapted to scrape one a skin portion of the tail (16) of the fur (3), the device further comprising rotating means (14 ') for rotating the tail scraper roll (10, 19) during treatment of a fur (3). Device according to claim 1, wherein the size of the force components of the scraper rollers (7, 8) of the first pair of primary scraper rolls across the mandrel (1) is substantially the same. Device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the force components parallel to the mandrel (1) applied by the two scraper rolls (7, 8) of the first pair of primary scraper rolls on the leather side of a fur (3) when in engagement with the the leather side of a fur (3), both facing the thicker end (4) of the mandrel (1). Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the two scraper rolls (9, 10) of the second pair of primary scraper rolls each have a plurality of scraper edges (17, 18) extending substantially helically along the scraper rolls (9). , 10) longitudinal direction. Device according to claim 4, wherein the two scraper rollers (9, 10) of the second pair of primary scraper rollers are arranged to apply force components across the mandrel (1) operating in opposite directions on the leather side of a fur (3), when in engagement with the leather side of a fur (3), so that the second pair (9, 10) of primary scraper rolls will be inclined to rotate the fur (3) in the opposite direction about a longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1) relative to to the first pair of primary scraper rolls (7, 8). Device according to claim 5, wherein the size of the force components of the scraper rollers (9, 10) of the second pair of primary scraper rollers across the mandrel (1) is substantially the same. Device according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the force components parallel to the mandrel (1) applied by the two scraper rolls (9, 10) of the second pair of primary scraper rolls on the leather side of a fur (3) when in engagement with the the leather side of a fur (3), both facing the thicker end (4) of the mandrel (1). Device according to one of claims 4 to 7, wherein the first pair of primary scraper rolls (7, 8) and the second pair of primary scraper rollers (9, 10) are arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1). Device according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the tail scraper roller (10, 19) has a design of the scraper edges (18 ', 20) selected from the group consisting of V-shaped, U-shaped and straight scraping edges. Device according to one of the preceding claims, further comprising a second scraper roller adapted to engage the leather side of a fur (3) on the opposite side of the mandrel (1) simultaneously with the tail scraper roller (10, 19). Device according to one of the preceding claims, comprising a first pair (21, 22) of secondary scraper rolls, wherein the two scraper rolls (21, 22) of the first pair of secondary scraper rolls each have a plurality of scraper edges (28, 29), extending substantially helically along the longitudinal direction of the scraper rolls (21, 22), and wherein the two scraper rollers (21, 22) are adapted to apply force components across the longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1) acting in opposite directions on the leather side of the a fur (3) when engaged with the leather side of a fur (3), further comprising secondary rotary means (25) for rotating the secondary scraper rolls (21, 22) during treatment of a fur (3). Device according to claim 11, wherein the size of the force components of the scraper rollers of the first pair (21, 22) of secondary scraper rolls across the mandrel (1) is substantially the same. Device according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the force components parallel to the mandrel (1) applied by the two scraper rolls (21, 22) of the first pair of secondary scraper rolls on the leather side of a fur (3) when in engagement with the the leather side of a fur (3), both facing the thicker end (4) of the mandrel (1) · Device according to one of claims 11 to 13, wherein the first pair (21, 22) of secondary scraper rolls is arranged to engage the leather side of a fur (3) on the same opposite sides of the mandrel (1) as the first pair primary scraper rolls (7, 8). Device according to claim 14, wherein the two scraper rolls (21, 22) of the first pair of secondary scraper rollers are arranged to apply force components across the longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1) operating in opposite directions on the leather side of a fur (3). ) than the corresponding scraper rolls (7, 8) of the first pair of primary scraper rolls when engaged with the leather side of a fur (3). Device according to one of claims 11 to 15, further comprising a second pair (23, 24) of secondary scraper rollers disposed on other opposite sides of the mandrel (1) and oriented substantially perpendicular to the first pair ( 21.22) secondary scraper rolls. Device according to claim 16, wherein the two scraper rolls (23, 24) of the second pair of secondary scraper rolls each have a plurality of scraper edges (30, 31) extending substantially helically along the longitudinal direction of the scraper rolls (23, 24). . Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the two scraper rolls (23, 24) of the second pair of secondary scraper rolls are arranged to apply force components across the mandrel (1) operating in opposite directions on the leather side of a fur (3), when in engagement with the leather side of a fur (3), so that the second pair (23, 24) of secondary scraper rolls will tend to rotate the fur (3) in the opposite direction about a longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1) relative to to the first pair (21.22) of secondary scraper rolls. Device according to claim 18, wherein the size of the force components of the scraper rollers of the second pair (23, 24) of secondary scraper rolls across the mandrel (1) is substantially the same. Apparatus according to claim 18 or 19, wherein the force components parallel to the mandrel (1) applied by the two scraper rolls (23, 24) of the second pair of secondary scraper rolls on the leather side of a fur (3) when in engagement with the the leather side of a fur (3), both facing the thicker end (4) of the mandrel (1) · Device according to one of claims 18 to 20, wherein the first pair of secondary scraper rolls and the second pair of secondary scraper rollers are arranged side by side in a longitudinal direction of the mandrel (1). Apparatus according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the moving means consists of mandrel propellants for driving the mandrel (1) in a longitudinal direction thereof during treatment of a fur (3).