US2148904A - Method for the treatment and utilization of scrap or waste leather - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to new and useful improvements in methods for the treatment and utilization of scrap or waste leather, whereby a composition is produced which has all the characteristics of leather, and which can be cut or moulded into various shapes, lengths, and sizes, so as to be utilized for the purpose for which leather is generally and at present used, but principally for boot and shoe leather.
- the general outline of the procedure is as follows: A predetermined quantity of scrap or waste leather is by the aid of suitable chemicals or machinery ground or reduced into a coarse powder. The next step in the process is to mix this ground leather with an adhesive, which latter will serve the purpose of commingling the various particles together, whereupon pressure is applied to form the mixture into a solidified mass of great strength and to render it waterproof.
- a quantity of scrap or waste leather is reduced into a fine powdered form, by boiling the same in a 1% solution of sulphuric acid, or sodium hydroxide until it forms a jell, then precipitating the latter by the addition of cold water to a jellied batch, after having run off the original liquids in which the leather batch was cooked; the material is then forced to dry thoroughly by the application of any suitable means, such as drying pans, whereupon it will appear as a solid, coarse, brittle powder, which is next reduced to a very fine powder by means of any suitable grinding apparatus, for instance, a pebble mill.
- an adhesive of a quickly drying composition consisting of virgin or scrap of waste cellulose acetate, or scrap or waste nitro-cellulose fibre, dissolved in a quantity of acetone suitable in measure for the required purpose, viscosity usually or approximately 8 parts cellulose acetate or nitro-cellulose to 8 parts acetone for highly viscous concentrated and economical binder, in or about the proportions, as
- Chemically treated leather 16 ozs.,-cellulose acetate cement, 12 ozs. solution, liquid form.
- Leather scrap or Waste can also be used or utilized to obtain the object desired without chemically treating the same, by just grinding said scrap or waste leather into a long fibre or shredded form, which would impart to the articles that may be molded from the above ingredients greater tensile strength, combining in this connection comminuted leather with cellulose binders, or comminuted leather with a Bakelite specially formulated compound, or more specifically: 4. Fibre leather, comminuted, 16 ozs.,4 ozs. cellulose acetate, 8 ozs. acetone.
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Patented Feb. 28, 1939 PATENT OFFICE METHOD FOR THE TREATMENT AND UTILI- ZATION OF SCRAP R WASTE LEATHER Armand R. Horowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Webwood Corporation, New York, N. Y.
No Drawing. Application December 23, 1936, Serial No. 117,319
2 Claims.
This invention relates to new and useful improvements in methods for the treatment and utilization of scrap or waste leather, whereby a composition is produced which has all the characteristics of leather, and which can be cut or moulded into various shapes, lengths, and sizes, so as to be utilized for the purpose for which leather is generally and at present used, but principally for boot and shoe leather.
At the present time scrap leather left over from the manufacture of different leather articles is wasted, and it is the object of this invention to regenerate this waste material so as to use the same as a commercial and marketable product.
In achieving the above object, the general outline of the procedure is as follows: A predetermined quantity of scrap or waste leather is by the aid of suitable chemicals or machinery ground or reduced into a coarse powder. The next step in the process is to mix this ground leather with an adhesive, which latter will serve the purpose of commingling the various particles together, whereupon pressure is applied to form the mixture into a solidified mass of great strength and to render it waterproof.
More particularly, and as an illustrating example, the steps undertaken by me in achieving the above result, are as follows:-
A quantity of scrap or waste leather is reduced into a fine powdered form, by boiling the same in a 1% solution of sulphuric acid, or sodium hydroxide until it forms a jell, then precipitating the latter by the addition of cold water to a jellied batch, after having run off the original liquids in which the leather batch was cooked; the material is then forced to dry thoroughly by the application of any suitable means, such as drying pans, whereupon it will appear as a solid, coarse, brittle powder, which is next reduced to a very fine powder by means of any suitable grinding apparatus, for instance, a pebble mill. To this finely powdered mass is added an adhesive of a quickly drying composition, consisting of virgin or scrap of waste cellulose acetate, or scrap or waste nitro-cellulose fibre, dissolved in a quantity of acetone suitable in measure for the required purpose, viscosity usually or approximately 8 parts cellulose acetate or nitro-cellulose to 8 parts acetone for highly viscous concentrated and economical binder, in or about the proportions, as
follows:-
1. Chemically treated leather: 16 ozs.,-cellulose acetate cement, 12 ozs. solution, liquid form.
2. Chemically treated leather: 16 ozs.,--nitro- 5 cellulose 4 ozs., acetone 8 ozs. (nitro-cellulose acetate 12 ozs.).
3. Chemically treated leather: 16 ozs.,--Bakelite,
special compound of Bakelite, 8 to 10 ozs.
Leather scrap or Waste, especially sole leather, can also be used or utilized to obtain the object desired without chemically treating the same, by just grinding said scrap or waste leather into a long fibre or shredded form, which would impart to the articles that may be molded from the above ingredients greater tensile strength, combining in this connection comminuted leather with cellulose binders, or comminuted leather with a Bakelite specially formulated compound, or more specifically: 4. Fibre leather, comminuted, 16 ozs.,4 ozs. cellulose acetate, 8 ozs. acetone.
5. Fibre leather, comminuted, 16 ozs.,4 ozs. ni-
tro-cellulose, 8 ozs. acetone, (nitro-cellulose acetate 12 ozs.).
6. Fibre leather, comminuted, 16 ozs., 10 ozs.
Bakelite.
None of the above cited combinations of materials requires vulcanization. 30
In moulding articles from the above materials about 7000 pounds pressure is required per square inch; in said moulding process, however, no heat is required.
It may be noted that maximum water-proofing is attained by knitting the fibres closely together by means of hydraulic pressure on a fibre material that has been precoated with a cellulose binder, or a Bakelite binder, that are waterproof materials. 40
While I have thus described my invention herein, it is to be understood that some slight variations, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made as to the steps undertaken in the process as well as to the amount or quantity of the several ingredients employed by me in obtaining the hereinbefore stated results, and I do not, therefore, wish to limit myself to the exact disclosure of my composition, as mentioned herein.
What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:
1. The process of manufacturing an article, as herein described, comprising the following steps: reducing a quantity of scrap or waste leather to a coarse powder by boiling the same in a 1% solution of sulphuric acid to form a jell, removing from the leather batch the cooking liquid, adding cold water to the jelliecl batch, whereby to precipitate the latter, drying the material thoroughly, and grinding said material to a fine powder, mixing an adhesive of a quickly drying composition with said powder, and subjecting said mixture to a total pressure of approximately 7000 pounds.
2. The process of manufacturing an article, as herein described, comprising the following steps: reducing a quantity of scrap or waste leather to a coarse powder by boiling the same in a 1% solution of sulphuric acid to form a jell, removing from the leather batch the cooking liquid, adding cold water to the jellied batch, whereby to precipitate the latter, drying the material thoroughly, and grinding said material to a fine powder, mixing an adhesive of a quickly drying composition with said powder, said adhesive consisting of nitro-cellulose dissolved in acetone, and subjecting the mixture to a substantial pressure.
ARMAND R. HOROWITZ.
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US2464282A (en) * | 1945-11-24 | 1949-03-15 | Abrahams Morton | Utilization of leather waste |
US2808398A (en) * | 1953-10-05 | 1957-10-01 | Forward Frederick Bruce | Process for the preparation of leather dust |
US5958554A (en) * | 1996-06-05 | 1999-09-28 | Mat, Inc. | Reconstituted leather product and process |
US6264879B1 (en) | 1996-06-05 | 2001-07-24 | Mat, Inc. | Reconstituted leather product and process |
US20070292217A1 (en) * | 2004-11-17 | 2007-12-20 | Mat, Inc. | Corn stover blanket and method of making the same |
US10124543B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2018-11-13 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High strength leather material |
US10131096B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2018-11-20 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High strength leather material |
US10138595B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2018-11-27 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | Dispersion processing aids for the formation of a leather material |
US10577670B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2020-03-03 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High-strength and tear-resistant leather materials and methods of manufacture |
US10618199B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2020-04-14 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High strength leather material |
USD932772S1 (en) | 2018-08-31 | 2021-10-12 | Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. | Interlocking tile |
US11377765B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2022-07-05 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High-strength and tear-resistant leather materials and methods of manufacture |
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US2464282A (en) * | 1945-11-24 | 1949-03-15 | Abrahams Morton | Utilization of leather waste |
US2808398A (en) * | 1953-10-05 | 1957-10-01 | Forward Frederick Bruce | Process for the preparation of leather dust |
US5958554A (en) * | 1996-06-05 | 1999-09-28 | Mat, Inc. | Reconstituted leather product and process |
US6264879B1 (en) | 1996-06-05 | 2001-07-24 | Mat, Inc. | Reconstituted leather product and process |
US20070292217A1 (en) * | 2004-11-17 | 2007-12-20 | Mat, Inc. | Corn stover blanket and method of making the same |
US10131096B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2018-11-20 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High strength leather material |
US10124543B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2018-11-13 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High strength leather material |
US10138595B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2018-11-27 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | Dispersion processing aids for the formation of a leather material |
US10577670B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2020-03-03 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High-strength and tear-resistant leather materials and methods of manufacture |
US10618199B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2020-04-14 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High strength leather material |
US11377765B1 (en) * | 2016-01-06 | 2022-07-05 | Sustainable Composites, LLC | High-strength and tear-resistant leather materials and methods of manufacture |
USD932772S1 (en) | 2018-08-31 | 2021-10-12 | Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. | Interlocking tile |
USD962647S1 (en) | 2018-08-31 | 2022-09-06 | Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. | Set of interlocking tiles |
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