EP0329857A1 - Leather treatment - Google Patents

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EP0329857A1
EP0329857A1 EP88121885A EP88121885A EP0329857A1 EP 0329857 A1 EP0329857 A1 EP 0329857A1 EP 88121885 A EP88121885 A EP 88121885A EP 88121885 A EP88121885 A EP 88121885A EP 0329857 A1 EP0329857 A1 EP 0329857A1
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Raymond Lehtbridge Wilson
Jiri Dokoupil
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C14—SKINS; HIDES; PELTS; LEATHER
    • C14C—CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF HIDES, SKINS OR LEATHER, e.g. TANNING, IMPREGNATING, FINISHING; APPARATUS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS FOR TANNING
    • C14C15/00—Apparatus for chemical treatment or washing of hides, skins, or leather

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  • This invention relates to treatment of leather and has particular application to colouring of leather.
  • the leather industry is one of the oldest known to man, and one of the most complex chemically, generally still relying on skills and techniques acquired and passed down through long practice, rather than wholly scientific anaylsis.
  • Conventional processes for colouring leather include soaking in liquid dyestuffs before during or after a stuffing or fat-liquoring process or processes required in finished tanned leather to soft pliable form after the usual shaving splitting washing and bleaching operations.
  • Such colouration by soaking, whether or not accompanying stuffing or fat-liquoring is usually done in rotating drums equipping with stirring paddles or agitators.
  • Alternatives for achieving colouration including passing between rollers bearing dyestuff on their surface, and passing through special dyestuffs having a solvent base and including penetration-promoting agents.
  • a process for treating animal skins in connection with making leather which process serves to introduce into thickness of tissue of the skins a desired material substance or agent, and which process comprises introducing into the thickness of tissue of the skins, typically into surface-communicating voids or pores of or established therein, a fluid having a high-volume state and a low-volume state at corresponding relatively high and low temperature, and the process including occupation of said thickness of tissue of the skins by said fluid in its high-volume state then transition by cooling to get said low-volume state, in order to establish said desired material substance or agent in said thickness of tissue of the skins.
  • said fluid constitutes a medium by which said desired material substance or agent is infused or permeated directly into the leather before being effectively set therein by said temperature lowering step. It is, of course, sufficient for such material substance or agent to be carried in dispersion by some medium having the required volume-reduction capability, i.e. not necessarily itself having that capability and then in solid particulate or liquid droplet or other suitable form.
  • said fluid serves only of itself to infuse or permeate into the leather and said desired material substance or agent is presented to the leather afterwards, normally in but feasibly before the temperature lowering step during which such material substance or agent is drawn into the leather by and as a result of volume reduction of said fluid infused or permeated into the leather.
  • Such presentation of said desired material substance or agent may be as a dispersion thereof in a space conveniently in a second fluid/medium occupying that space, into which the leather infused or permeated with the first fluid is passed and in which said temperature reduction occurs.
  • a liquid has been found to be satisfactory as the second fluid/medium, particularly where the desired material substance or agent is a dyestuff for colouration of leather.
  • this invention be applied beyond simple colouration of leather, and capable of achieving substantially through-penetration when applied to dry-crust.
  • it can be used to improve keying of materials substances or agents offering desired surface characteristics or features, even to materials substances or agents required or desired in stuffing and fat-liquoring of leather to condition it and make it supple.
  • the invention has been shown to produce some penetration even in the wet-blue state of skins or hides, and is thus usable at that stage or in some state between wet-blue and dry crust.
  • Application to tanning substances as such is also envisaged, for example to obtain direct infusion or permeation of chrome salts, whether first in liquid solution or in particulate solid form, and there could be substantial savings of time and materials.
  • a colouration process involves the steps of enhancing acceptance by leather of dyestuff by exposing the leather to a heated atmosphere or first fluid from which air is substantially excluded so that said atmosphere infuses or permeates the leather, and then passing the leather directly into contact with dyestuff at a lower temperature whereat said atmosphere substantially reduces its volume and is effective in drawing dyestuff into the leather.
  • a suitable atmosphere or first fluid is a gas or vapour that liquifies or condenses at or above the temperature of the dyestuff, which may be or be contained in a liquid.
  • Such suitable infusing or permeating, volume-collapsing, atmosphere can, whether of its own nature or because of its temperature, can have beneficial effect by way of cleansing or purging leather tissue surfaces with which it comes into contact, perhaps particularly by way of degreasing, even pore-cleaning or other void-forming action.
  • a satisfactory heated atmosphere giving highly satisfactory penetration of the leather is, as mentioned above, one where at least air in skin tissue is substantially displaced by steam, i.e. effectively an atmosphere consisting essentially of steam, and it is particularly effective to use steam that is dry, i.e. consisting substantially entirely of uncondensed water vapour and thus at a temperature actually above 100 degrees Centrigrade.
  • steam temperatures say up to about 120 degrees C, and exposure times of seconds, say 2 to 5 or 10 seconds, satisfactory penetration/purging occurs without any deleterious effects on tanned leather, indeed little actual increase in overall leather temperature in view of heat insulating properties thereof, but with permeation fully into the leather despite its rather dense nature as fibrous tissue.
  • a closed system used for proving the present invention passes leather from steam directly into dyestuff, and it is not easy to measure actual leather surface temperature, nor penetration except for manifest resulting through-colouration, but the system seems not to be highly critical. No doubt there will be preferred or desirable variations depending on the type and thickness of the leather.
  • textile materials are essentially of an open filamentary nature, often with substantial interstitial spaces even in its constituent yarn, and made up by weaving or knitting types, or of non-woven fibre-mat type, i.e. much more open than tanned leather.
  • textile materials are often specifically intended, indeed required, to withstand hot-water treatments, often including boiling, without sustaining damage.
  • the present inventor is unaware of anyone in the leather industry, prior to this invention, giving any serious consideration to the use of temperatures at or above 100 degrees Centigrade, particularly using steam.
  • exclusion of air between a steam chamber and a take-up bath is readily achieved by having the steam chamber exit extend below the surface of liquid contents of the take-up bath.
  • Transport into and through the steam chamber can be by way of and on one or more strand of mesh belts to promote free movement of steam throughtout the steam chamber.
  • An air excluding entry to the steam chamber can be by way of deformable rollers and/or brushes, aided, of course, by any inevitable over-pressure within the steam chamber compared with exterior ambient atmosphere.
  • FIG.1 the single figure is a diagrammatic side view of continuous-feed steam-purging colouration apparatus 10 for tanned leather.
  • a steam chamber 12 has steam porting indicated at 14 and 16 to an outer jacket or casing 20 and associated subsidiary distribution indicated at 24 and 26.
  • two steam portings and associated subsidiary distribution systems 14, 24 and 16, 26 one could operate for steam input and the other for steam output, or both may be used for input purposes as losses within the chamber should be low and a system of heaters within the outer jacket or casing 20 can serve to sustain a suitable dry-steam temperature, see coils indicated at 18, 22 (but feasibly at the exterior of a jacket or casing 20 of conductive nature). Heat loss through the jacket 20 is shown minimised by using heavy insulation about the jacket or casing, see 30.
  • Free movement and charging of steam throughout the chamber 12 is aided by use of a previous conveyor system 36, say of mesh or of multiple spaced strand type.
  • a strand type is assumed for reasons that will become apparent.
  • the conveyor system 36 is further shown extending through the bath 42 on a downward slope into the dyestuff liquor, through two sets of guides, 46, 48. which may be rows of rings or closed-off combs.
  • the dye bath is shown with downwardly convergent forward and rearward sides generally following the downward and upward slopes of the strand conveyor, and then out of the dyestuff liquor on an upward slope, see bath exit roller 50.
  • a squeeze roller 52 is also indicated for aiding removal of excess dyestuff liquor and its return, conveniently down slope then into the bath 42 .
  • the strand conveyor 36 is shown going over a roller 56 at a dyed skin discharge position 58, and there will be a return run to a skin loading position 60 before entry to the chamber 12.
  • the conveyor system 36 in separate segments, say one transversing just the dye bath 42 and squeeze station (or the dye bath only with a further conveyor through the squeeze station), and another transversing the steam chamber 12 and serving as input thereto (or entirely within the steam chamber 12 and receiving from a further conveyor and the rollers 38.
  • the conveyor 36 could further be be broken within the steam chamber, say to ensure that belt strands do not entirely prevent contact with steam, which could be done if consecutive strand conveyor portions have their strands in staggered relation.
  • a second conveyor system 60 is shown from the bottom of the dye bath and can effectively grip the skins at least lightly in order to aid upward feeding out of the dye bath. That conveyor system 60 could extend over the down sloped part of the conveyor 36 to resist skins floating off in the bath, but then preferably spaced by more than the thickness of the skins to avoid marking their upper surface or shielding it from dyestuff. If a positive gripping feed downwards is desired, another strand belt with its strands staggered relative to the upper running belt 60 could be used.
  • rollers 38A, 38B Exclusion of air at the steam chamber inlet is achievable if at least one of the rollers 38A, 38B, is readily deformable at contact with the entrant skin and/or with sealing brushes arranged beyond the rollers 38A,B which, at least then could be separable, see raising and lowering mount 70 spring-biassed down at 72, three-pivot roller-carrying plate 74 and downward pressing ram/spring 76.
  • An upward-movement-tolerant, downwardly-biassing system is also shown for the squeezer roller 52, see bias roller 80, medially pivotted carrier arm 82 and bias ram/spring 84.
  • the illustrated apparatus including variants so far described, is intended only to be exemplary.
  • other than strand-belt conveyor systems could be used with suitable further variations, and the steam chamber could have vertically extending steam entry and/or exit and distribution systems, indeed the skins might be guided, even fall, vertically through a vertical steam chamber.
  • a leather piece 100 is shown to be advanced in a direction according to arrow 101 on a transport band 102.
  • the path of the leather to be treated extends in horizontal direction firstly through the action range of a hunidifying device 103, e.g. an arrangement of water spraying nozzles extending over the width od transport band 102.
  • a hunidifying device 103 e.g. an arrangement of water spraying nozzles extending over the width od transport band 102.
  • the leather will have a predetermined inherent humidity. It has to be understood that such humidifying station can be dismissed or left unused in case where the humidity of the leather in its input condition is sufficient for the further processing to be explained.
  • the leather then passes through a deviation device 104 comprising a lower deflecting roller 105 and an upper roller and holding band assembly 106, the latter being designed so as to secure the leather on its path along the upper surface of transport band 102 supported by said deflecting roller 105.
  • the leather then moves along the descending section 106 of transport band 102 and through the rectangular cross-­ section 107a of a microwave guide 107, which extends across the width of transport band 102 and thus of the leather piece, i.e. the waveguide extends rectangularly to the plane of Fig.1. Entrance and exit of the leather with respect to said waveguide cross-section is enabled by means of longitudinal slots 108 and 109 resp. extending along the lines bisecting the smaller sides of the rectangular waveguide cross-section and across the width of transport band 102.
  • Waveguide 107 is connected via a double-curved section 107b to a microwave generator 110 of usual type.
  • longitudinal slots arranged in a waveguide in the manner just explained allows for entrance and exit of planar articles to be treated in a microwave field without substantial escape of microwave energy, provided that an appropriate wave mode has been established and the width of said slots is not too great.
  • the lower waveguide slot 109 escapes immediately adjacent to or even slightly below the level of a colouring bath 111 into which transport band 102 and the leather are immerging after having passed the waveguide cross-section 107a.
  • the transport band has to be fabricated of a material substantially inabsorbent to microwave energy of the frequency in use.
  • the microwave energy is adjusted to a level sufficient for vaporising at least a substantial portion of the water bound in the leather according to its inherent humidity and thus to replace air (left in the leather according to its degree of humidity) by steam.
  • the steam now residing in the pores of the leather will be cooled down rapidly and brought to condensation, whereby the colouring liquid is sucked into the pores.
  • An essential advantage of this embodiment is seen in avoiding a voluminous and expensive steam chamber.

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DE3930965A1 (de) * 1989-09-15 1991-03-28 Dynavac Gmbh Einrichtung zur dampfbehandlung von leder und dergl.
EP1241270A1 (en) * 2001-03-13 2002-09-18 GE.MA.TA. S.p.A. Dying, greasing and fixation/finishing procedure of leather
WO2007095970A1 (de) * 2006-02-20 2007-08-30 Lanxess Deutschland Gmbh Verfahren und vorrichtung zum aufbringen einer beschichtung auf zumindest eine seite eines leders, und nach einem solchen verfahren hergestelltes, beschichtetes leder
CN104437957A (zh) * 2014-11-27 2015-03-25 倪国权 一种皮质面料涂蜡装置

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FR2452543A1 (fr) * 1979-03-29 1980-10-24 Robur Werke Zittau Veb Procede et dispositif pour l'impregnation de tissus, particulierement de textiles

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GB470777A (en) * 1935-03-12 1937-08-20 Kodak Ltd Improvements in methods of and apparatus for sizing paper
FR2452543A1 (fr) * 1979-03-29 1980-10-24 Robur Werke Zittau Veb Procede et dispositif pour l'impregnation de tissus, particulierement de textiles

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DE3930965A1 (de) * 1989-09-15 1991-03-28 Dynavac Gmbh Einrichtung zur dampfbehandlung von leder und dergl.
WO1991004344A1 (de) * 1989-09-15 1991-04-04 Dynavac Maschinenbau Gmbh Einrichtung zur dampfbehandlung von leder und dergleichen
EP1241270A1 (en) * 2001-03-13 2002-09-18 GE.MA.TA. S.p.A. Dying, greasing and fixation/finishing procedure of leather
WO2007095970A1 (de) * 2006-02-20 2007-08-30 Lanxess Deutschland Gmbh Verfahren und vorrichtung zum aufbringen einer beschichtung auf zumindest eine seite eines leders, und nach einem solchen verfahren hergestelltes, beschichtetes leder
CN104437957A (zh) * 2014-11-27 2015-03-25 倪国权 一种皮质面料涂蜡装置

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