US84190A - Improved tanning-apparatus - Google Patents

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anni: @time uittl tam SILAS HOSMER, OF CONCORDMASSACHUSETTS.

` Leam Patent No. 84,190, ma Nqwnbef 17, 1888.

' IMPROVED TANNINGAPPARATUS.

Theihedule'referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

m0- To all whom 'it fma/y concern: immersed vin the liq'uor to produce a current, 'by the Be il; known that L SEAS HOSMER, ef Concord, in rotation of the same, in order to prevent the tanningtlle eennty of Middlesex, and State ef Massachusetts, matter, held 1n solution 1n the hqmd, from settling in have invented e new and useful Imprevemenl, in Tenthe vat, and thereby cansmg looal differences in the ning Appemtns; 'and I de hereby deelne the@ the fel. .result produced on the skins, which I have found to lowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, be 'Phe ease Wh'el'e means-alle not teken te keep UP all iwhich will enable others skilled in thel art to make and eellell 0f the llelllel'- v use the same, reference being hadl to the acoompany- I d0 Het deslle t0 hmlll myselfhewevera te the el" ing drawings, forming part of this specification. rangement ef 'elle Wheel B, es Otllel. Illeells mey-be This invention relates to improvements in tanning edepted 0f il Slmllel' @hemelen Whlleh Wlu lleve e hke skins, and has for its object to provide an improved eeeti es, fOl' lllstlllee, e Sheff', having IlleJeef'lllr ermeeppemtus fer tanning n mmm. immersed 1n the llquor to some extent, and having an It consists in the arrangement, in combination with eselllltl'llg movement, would Serve e goed Purposea vacuum tannngfvessel, of an agitating-meohanism to The Shaft ef the Wheel B, 0f Othel' tlPllelllllus, may l produce and maintain @ments in the liquor-beth @0nprOJe@t through a Stuflmapqx, @11d have a Wheel, D, taining the Skins to equalize the action.' of the liquor or other means for communicatmg motion from any en thelskine l l l e competent power attached thereto.v

Figure 1 represents a transverse sectional elevation Hevlllg thus deseribed mf IlVelltiOll, of a tanning-vessel, with my improvement attached I elllm es 'lleWl illld deslre t0 Seellle by Letters thereto, and l Patellt- Figure 2 represents a, longitudinal Seetlen of the The comb1nat1on,w1th avessel arranged for tanning same. m vacuo, of an agitating-wheel, B, or its equivalent, l

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. l Substantially es elle felf 'elle P,lll'pflee deSeribef1- A represents the vessel fer Qontaining the liquor- Theebel'e Slleelemon .of my leven/91011 Slglled by bath, into which the skins are to he placed, and from e me, llllls 25th dey 0f September, 1868 which the airis to vbe Withdrawn, as is now practised, SILAS HOSMER. and which may be made of any'suitable form and ma- Witnesses: terial, into which I propose to introduce an agitating- FRANK BLOCKLEY,

wheel, B,the oats C of which ,shall be suioiently FJROBERTS.

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