US278981A - Apparatus for tanning hides - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. R. LOGKE.

APPARATUS FOR TANNING HIDBS.

Patented June 5, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN R. LOOKE, or KEENE, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To HIM- SELF, ND ALDEN W. STEVENS, OF EAST SULLIVAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

APPARATUS FOR TANNING HIDES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,981, dated June 5, 1883.

Application fi ed February :26, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern Be it known that I, EDWIN RUTHvIN LocKE, of Keene, in the county of Cheshire, of the State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus or Means for Tanning Hides; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the follow ing specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side 616"L- tion, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of a set of tan-vats provided with my invention, the nature of which is duly set forth in the claim hereinafter presented, such invention being for the purpose of facilitating the handling of hides, or transferring them from one vat to another successively in the Series, during the process of tanning them.

It is Well known that in efiecting the tanning of hides it has been common to employ a series of vats, the tanning-liquor of each being stronger in tanning than that of the next preceding vat. The hides, strung or attached together, were, after having been suffered to remain in each vat a sufiicient period of time, removed therefrom and transferred into the next succeeding vat of the series. Prior to my invention such transferring of the hides has usually, been accomplished by manual labor, with hooks or other suitable implements, thereby consuming much time and skill, which by my improvement is very materially reduced, as by means of it a small boy can accomplish in a given time what heretofore has required the labor of some two or more men to effect. Attempts have also been made to accomplish the result by'mechanism in some respects analogous to that herein described, though differing therefrom in other and important particulars, a mechanism for such purpose being represented in the United States Patent No. 219, 537

In the drawings, A A A denote three tan pits or vats, arranged in the order as-shown. Extending along them is a rail way or ways, B B, for a carriage, G, to run upon, such carriage being provided, by preference, with wheels'a, to rest and run on the rails or ways B B. This carriage supports a 'revoluble reel,

ings at or in the tops of the posts I) b of the carriage. One of the said journals projects beyond its post, and has fixed concentrically on it (the said journal) a grooved wheel or pulley, 0, about which and two other such wheels, at e, an endless band, f, is run. The wheels (I e are supported by and so as to re voly e freely in two posts, 9 h, arranged with the vats in manner as represented, there being on the axle of one of such wheelsa crank or -a driving-pulley for revolving it. The endless band goes from the first wheel, (I, to and entirely around the pulley or wheel a, thence to and half-way around the wheel 6, from which it will be seen that on revolving the that it with its sustaining-carriage may be moved from one vat to the other throughout the series, first in one direction and next in the opposite, and in the ineantimehave the endless band and the wheel 0 in engagement.

in using the revoluble reel the carriage is to be moved soas to bring the reel directly over the partition between the first and second of the vats, after which one of the end hides of the string in the said first vat is to be raised out of the vat and thrown over the reel, which may be supposed to be in revolution in a proper direction, in which case it will cause the hides successively to be drawn from the first vat and transferred or dropped into the second one. This process of removing the string of hides from vat to vat is to be repeated from time to time, in manner and by means of the revoluble reel, as circumstances may require.

I claim The combination of a series of tan-vats and the revoluble reel and its supporting-carriage, the sustaining rails or ways of such carriage,

D, whose journals extend into suitable bear .65 wheel (I the reel will be put in revolution, and

and the endless band and its three supportingwheels, adapted and arranged substantially and to operate as set forth.

EDVIN RUIHVIh LOGKE.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR F, BIcELoW, E. D. KNIGHT.

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