HIPPOLYTE DUSSAUCE'S NEW AND COMPLETE TREATISE ON THE ARTS OF TANNING, CURRYING, AND LEATHER-DRESSING BOOK REVIEW

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Imports of Hides at New York for the Past sixteen years
Imports of Hides at New York for 1863
Imports of Hides at Boston for 1863
Imports of Hides at Philadelphia
Imports of Hides at Salem, Mass
Leather produced in the US in 1850 and 1860
Origin and Development of the Art of Tanning
Parchment Dressing
PART I: CHEMISTRY OF TANNING
SECTION I: TAN AND TANNIN
CHAPTER I: Pure Tannin
- Chemical Properties
- Composition
- Preparation
CHAPTER II: Impure Tannin
- Chemical Properties
- Preparation
- Varieties
- Prep. from nutgalls
- Proust's process
- Deyeux's process
- Dize's process
- Merat-Guillot's process
- Bouillon-Legrange's process
- Tromsdorff's process
- Serturner's process
- Tannin of catechu
- Tannin of bark of trees- Sumach, Kino
- Tannin which forms a bluish-black precipitate in solutions ofa sesqui-salt of iron
- Tannin which forms a green precipitate in the dissolution of iron
CHAPTER III: Artificial Tannin
- Properties
- Composition
- First variety
- Second variety
- Third variety
CHAPTER IV: Tannin from Various Sources
CHAPTER V: Gallic and Ellagic Acids
- Gallic Acid
- Preparation
- Scheele's process
- Fiedler's process
- Braconnot's process
- Ure's process
- Properties
- Composition
- Ellagic Acid
CHAPTER VI: Extractive
SECTION II. TANNING MATERIALS
CHAPTER VII: Tanning Saps, Tanning Juices, Kino, Catechu
- Tanning saps
- Sap of the beech tree
- Tanning juices
- Kino, African Kin, Jamaica kino
- S. American, Columbia, or Caraccas kino
- Catechu, cake catechu, Pegu catechu
- Bengal catechu, Bombay catechu
- Gambir
- Areca catechu
CHAPTER VIII: Excrescences containing tannin
- Nutgalls
CHAPTER IX: Leaves, Tea, Flowers and Fruits, Seeds and Bulbs
- Leaves, Listing of tanning leaves, Tea
- Flowers and Fruits, Valonin, Divi-divi
- Of tanning flowers and flower tops
- Seeds and bulbs suitable for tanning
CHAPTER X: Woods, Roots, Barks
- Woods- Dentelaria, Malefern, Rhatany, Marsh rosemary
- Barks- Cinnamon, Sassafras, Birch bark, Chestnut bark, Horse-chestnut, Beech bark, Lombarypoplar bark, Black thorn bark, Pomegranate bark, Ash bark, Elm bark, Cinchona bark, Poison oak, Sumach, Willow bark, Tamarisk, Hemlock bark
CHAPTER XI: Oak Barks
- European Oaks
- American Oaks
CHAPTER XII: Barking of the Trees
- Parts containing the most tannin
- Age of trees relatively to richness of barks' tannin
- Barking and the most convenient time for it
- Influence of seasons to place at the time of barking
- Decrease of weight of smooth bark when exposed to the air
CHAPTER XIII: Plants Containing Tannin Used as Substitutes for Oak Barks
CHAPTER XIV: Methods of Estimating the Tanning Power of Astringent Substances
- Examination of Barks
- Chemical examination
- Warrington's process
- Davy's process
- Bell Stephens' process
- Muller's process
- Method of Dr. D.W. Gerland
- Table of the quantities of tannin contained in principal tanning substances
- Comparative quantities of different tanning substances necessary to tan an equal quantity of leather
CHAPTER XV: Tan or Powdered Oak-Bark
- Bagnall's machine for chopping bark and fleshing hides
- Weldon's mill for grinding oak-bark
- Farcot's bark-chopping machine
- Bourgeois's bark mill
- Lespinasse's bark mill
- Birely's mill
CHAPTER XVI: Tanning Extracts
- J Connel's concentrated extract
- A. Steers's process
- The Author's process
SECTION III: SKIN
CHAPTER XVII: Proximate Principles of Leather- Structure of the skin
- Proximate Principles of Leather
- Structure of the Skin
- Behavior of the epidermis and cutis with reagents
CHAPTER XVIII: Constitution of the Skin
- Composition of the Skin
- Fibrin
- Gelatine
- Albumen
CHAPTER XIX: Proper Treatment of Hides and Skins- Kinds of Skins Suitable for Tanning - Salting the Hides
- Ox-hides
- Calves' skins and kips
- Horse-hides
- Sheepskins
- Goat-skins
- Deer-skins
- Hog or pig-skins
- Seal-skins
- Porpoise-skins
- Hippopotamus hides
- Mode of salting hides
SECTION IV. PRELIMINARY TREATMENT OF SKINS
CHAPTER XX: Washing and Soaking
- Soaking of foreign hides
CHAPTER XXI: Influence of the Water Upon the Quality of Leather
- Rain water
- Snow water
- Spring water
- River water
- Lake water
- Marsh water
- Well water
CHAPTER XXII: Swelling or Raising of the Hides
- Lime Process
CHAPTER XXIII: Stacking of the Hides
CHAPTER XXIV: Inconvenience of the Lime Process
CHAPTER XXV: Method of Raising by Acid
CHAPTER XXVI: Depilation by Steam
CHAPTER XXVII: Depilation by Caustic Soda
CHAPTER XXVIII: Depilation by Sulphurent or Calcium and Soda
CHAPTER XXIX: Cool Sweating Process
CHAPTER XXX: Raising by Barley Dressing
CHAPTER XXXI: Wallachia Leather
- Method of working the dressings
- Bran dressing
- Decomposition of the white dressings
CHAPTER XXXII: Rye Dressing of Transylvania Leather
CHAPTER XXXIII: Raising by Sour Tan-Liquor
- Preparation of the tan-liquor
CHAPTER XXXIV: Raising by Yeast
CHAPTER XXXV: Working on the Beam
SECTION V. TANNING PROCESS
CHAPTER XXXVI: Tan Vats
- Whent's patent vat
CHAPTER XXXVII: Heald's apparatus for tanning hides
CHAPTER XXXVIII: Time necessary for tatting
CHAPTER XXXIX: Proportions of the bark used
CHAPTER XL: Drying of the leather
CHAPTER XLI: Beating of the leather
CHAPTER XLII: Beating and rolling by machinery
- Debergue's machine
- Flotard and Delbut's machine
- Berendorf's machine for pressing hides
- Cox's machine
- Wiltse's rolling table
- Seguin's machine to flesh and gloss leather
CHAPTER XLIII: Tissue and quality of leathers- their defects and the way of ascertaining them
- Action of frost on leather
CHAPTER XLIV: Belt Leather
- How to manufacture cow-leather into uppers of a superior quality
CHAPTER XLV: Tanning of calf-skins
CHAPTER XLVI: Tatting of calf-skins for the preparation of waxed calf-skins
- Classification of untanned calf-skins
- Washings
- Liming
- Salted skins
- Dried calf-skins
- Dry calf-skins from foreign countries
- River work
- Operation first
- Treatment with strong liquors
- Dressing
CHAPTER XLVII: Tanning of goat and sheep-skins
- Bleaching of goat-skins
- Coloring of whole sheep-skins
CHAPTER XLVIII: Morocco Leather Dressing- Cordovan Leather
CHAPTER XLIX: Tanning of horse-hides
CHAPTER L: Tanning of different skins
CHAPTER LI: Tanning of the Skins of sheep's legs for making tubes without suture, for covering the cylinders used in cotton and wool spinning
- Leather bottles
CHAPTER LII: Red Leather
CHAPTER LIII: Danish process
CHAPTER LIV: Chemical Theory of Tanning
- Chemical researches on the art of tanning, by M. Knapp
SECTION VI. IMPROVED PROCESSES
CHAPTER LV: Seguin's process
CHAPTER LVI: Process of preparing glossed leather before the tanning operation
- Details of the work of the preparation of the leather
- Hides
- Smelting
- Liming
- Cleaning
- Description of the apparatus
- Tanning
CHAPTER LVII: Tanning with Myrtle
CHAPTER LVIII: Tanning with Grape-skins
CHAPTER LIX: Tanning with Statice
CHAPTER LX: Leprieur's Tanning Process
- Sugar of lead bath
- Tan liquor baths
- 1st series of infusions
- 2nd series of infusions
- Tanning in the vats
- Quantities of tan employed for tanning 220 lbs of leather
CHAPTER LXI: D'arcet's Process by the Sulphate of Sesqui-oxide of Iron
CHAPTER LXII: Newton's Process
CHAPTER LXIII: Preparing Dry Flint Hides
CHAPTER LXIV: Process of Tanning of H.C. Jennings
CHAPTER LXV: Berenger and Sterlingue's process
CHAPTER LXVI: Corniguet's process of substituting the fruit of the pine for the bark in tanning
CHAPTER LXVII: Vauquelin's process
CHAPTER LXVIII: Ogereau's process
SECTION VII. AMERICAN, ENGLISH & OTHER PROCESSES
CHAPTER LXIX: Process of tanning with a decoction of oak bark
CHAPTER LXX: Desmond's Process
CHAPTER LXXI: J. Burbridge's process with extract of oak bark and catechu
CHAPTER LXXII: Kleman's process
CHAPTER LXXIII: Spilsbury's process by pressure
CHAPTER LXXIV: M.W. Drake's process
CHAPTER LXXV: Rotch's quick process of tanning leather
CHAPTER LXXVI: J.F. Knowlis's process
CHAPTER LXXVII: Tanning apparatus of D. Aldrich, of St. Louis, MO
CHAPTER LXXVIII: Tanning wheel of V.E. Rusco
CHAPTER LXXIX: New Mode of Tanning Skins by a Liquor of Tar and Soot
- Preparation of the tan liquor
- Preparation of the soot liquor
- Preparation of the skins intended for leather
- Preparation of leather for soles
CHAPTER LXXX: Indian method of preparing elk-hides
CHAPTER LXXXI: Hatch's process of tanning, called Illinois French tanning
CHAPTER LXXXII: Irish process
CHAPTER LXXXIII: Process of manufacturing leather called cuirs a muron
CHAPTER LXXXIV: Kalmucks' process
CHAPTER LXXXV: Leather manufacture in Turkey
CHAPTER LXXXVI: J. Hannoye's process
CHAPTER LXXXVII: M. Nossiter's process
CHAPTER LXXXVIII: Squire's process
CHAPTER LXXXIX: English process for tanning nets, sails, and ropes
CHAPTER XC: Experiments in the Tanning of Calf-skins with Tan, Divi-divi, Catechu, and Elecampane Bark
- Oak bark
- Divi-divi
- Catechu(terra japonica)
- Elecampane bark
CHAPTER XCI: Tanning Hides, by J.W. Johnson
CHAPTER XCII: Turnbull's process
CHAPTER XCIII: S. Snyder's process
CHAPTER XCIV: H. Hibbard's process
CHAPTER XCV: Hemlock tanning, as performed at the Shaker Tannery, New Lebanon, NY
CHAPTER XCVI: Halvorson's process for rendering hides hard and transparent
CHAPTER XCII: Tawing
- Kid leather
- Imitation kid
CHAPTER XCIII: Best method of tanning small lamb-skins called chamois, and especially white peltry for furriers
CHAPTER XCIX: New method of coloring white tawed leather
CHAPTER C: Quick tanning
- Dunseith's process
- M.D. Kennedy's process
- I.L. Wells' process
- J. Cochran's process
- W.R. Webster's process
- Bunting's process
- Thompson's process
- L. Robinson's process
- T.G. Eggleston's process
- A. Dietz's process
- P. Daniel's process
- D. Needham's process
- R. Harper's process
- A. Hill's process
- J. Nuessley's process
- M.A. Bell's process
- Blet's process
- Baron's process
- Quick process
- Guiot's process
CHAPTER CI: Residues and Products of Tanneries
PART III. CURRYING
SECTION VIII. GENERAL WORK OF THE CURRIER
CHAPTER CII: Dipping
CHAPTER CIII: Shaving
CHAPTER CIV: Pommelling
CHAPTER CV: Stretching
CHAPTER CVI: Working with the round knife
CHAPTER CVII: Preparation of stretched leather
CHAPTER CVIII: Preparation of sleeked leather
CHAPTER CIX: Comparison of sleek leather and alum-dressed leather
CHAPTER CX: Tallowed or Grained Leather
- Grain black; how to improve it
CHAPTER CXI: Water Leather
CHAPTER CXII: Oil Leather
CHAPTER CXIII: Waxed Leather
CHAPTER CXIV: English Hides
CHAPTER CXV: White Leather and Common Russet
CHAPTER CXVI: Currying of Calf-skins- oiled calf-skins
CHAPTER CXVII: Tallowed calf-skins
CHAPTER CXVIII: English Calf-skins
CHAPTER CXIX: Waxed Calf-skins
- Fleshing and Shaving
- Bleaching or Whitening
- Graining
- Mode of making the blacking and its applications
- Finishing
CHAPTER CXX: Grained calf-skins
CHAPTER CXXI: calf-skin leather for belts
CHAPTER CXXII: Greased tanned hides
CHAPTER CXXIII: Saturation of leather with grease
CHAPTER CXXIV: Calf-skins called alumed skins
CHAPTER CXXV: F. Jahkel's process for manufacturing leather for harness-makers
CHAPTER CXXVI: Currying of goat-skins
SECTION IX. RUSSIA LEATHER
CHAPTER CXXVII: Process of manufacturing Russia leather
CHAPTER CXXVIII: Distillation of the Empyreumatic Oil of Birch-bark for Russia Leather
- Fischerstroern's process
- Another process
- Grouvelle and Duval-Duval's process
- Payen's process
CHAPTER CXXIX: Nature of the Odoriferous substance of the birch-tree bark
CHAPTER CXXX: Preparation of Russia Leather
CHAPTER CXXXI: Coloring of Red Russian leather
CHAPTER CXXXII: Extract from a memoir on the process of tanning skins in Russian by the Count of Kartsoff
CHAPTER CXXXIII: Red Leather
CHAPTER CXXXIV: Shagreen and Parchment
CHAPTER CXXXV: Parchment
SECTION X. PATENT LEATHER
CHAPTER CXXXVI: Fabrication of the Patent Leather
CHAPTER CXXXVII: Didier's Process
- White polished leather
- Red polished leather
- Blue polished leather
- Yellow polished leather
- Polished leather of leather color
- Black lacquer for shoes and leather work
- Process for varnishing leather for belts
SECTION XI. WATER-PROOF LEATHER
CHAPTER CXXXVIII: Process of J. Smith and J. Thomas
CHAPTER CXXXIX: Nenory's preparation to render leather water-proof and impervious
- Preparation of siccative oil
- Preparation of the elastic gum
- Preparation of the compound
- Process of using the composition
CHAPTER CXL: Dean's process for rendering leeather impervious
- First composition
- Second composition
- Third composition
- Fourth composition
- Application of the composition
CHAPTER CXLI: Different processes
- Cheap method of making leather water-proof
- Jenning's process
SECTION XII. HUNGARY LEATHER
CHAPTER CXLII: Grease and animal oils
- Lard
- Mutton suet
- Beef tallow
- Medullary beef tallow
- Fish oils
- Dolphin oil
- Porpoise oil
- Different fish oils
- Process by which to give to a mixture of different oils and greases the properties of fish oils
- Process for rendering vegetable oils fit to take the place of fish oils
CHAPTER CXLIII: River work
CHAPTER CXLIV: Aluming the hides
CHAPTER CXLV: Second aluming
CHAPTER CXLVI: Drying and stretching
CHAPTER CXLVII: Treading out the hides
CHAPTER CXLVIII: Tallowing
CHAPTER CXLIX: Flaming
CHAPTER CL: Exposure to the air
CHAPTER CLI: Weighing, marking, piling
CHAPTER CLII: Hungary leather made of cow and calf-skins
CHAPTER CLIII: Hungary leather made of horse-hides
CHAPTER CLIV: M. Kresses's process of preparing black Hungary leather
CHAPTER CLV: Defects in the quality of Hungary leather
CHAPTER CLVI: Uses of Hungary leather
CHAPTER CLVII: Improvement of M. Curandeau
PART V. GUT DRESSING
SECTION XIII. PREPARATION OF THE INTESTINES OF CATTLE
CHAPTER CLVIII: Operations followed in the preparation of intestines of cattle
- Description of the workshop
- Scouring
- Turning over
- Putrid fermentation
- Scraping
- Washing
- Insufflation
- Desiccation
- Disinsufflation
- Measuring
- Sulphuration
- Folding
CHAPTER CLIX: Disinfection of the work-shops- mode of suppressing putrefaction
CHAPTER CLX: Gold-beater's skin
CHAPTER CLXI: Lathe-cords
CHAPTER CLXII: Manufacture of cords from the intestines of sheep
CHAPTER CLXIII: Different cords
- Cords for rackets
- Whip cords
- Hatter's cords for bowstrings
- Clock-maker's cord
CHAPTER CLXIV: Cords for musical instrument strings
PART VI. DIFFERENT KINDS OF APPARATUS USED BY LEATHER MANUFACTURERS
CHAPTER CLXV: Improved machine for rolling green or wet leather, Operation
CHAPTER CLXVI: Machines for finishing leather
CHAPTER CLXVII: Leather polishing machine
CHAPTER CLXVIII: Jacob Perkins's machine for pummelling and graining leather
CHAPTER CLXIX: Nisbet's grounding and pumicing machine
CHAPTER CLXX: Embossing of leather
- Bernheim and Labouriau's process
- East's process
CHAPTER CLXXI: Degrand's machine for splitting and shaving leather
CHAPTER CLXXII: Giraudon's machine for splitting and shaving leather
CHAPTER CLXXIII: Machines for splitting and shaving leather
- Richardson's machine
- Chapman's improved leather splitting maching
- Introduction of splitting machine into German heavy and upper leather tanneries

Title: New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather-dressing
Author/Designer: Professor Hippolyte Dussauce, Industrial Chemist(??? - 1869)
Format/Publication Date: HC:1865
Publisher: H.C. Baird, Philadelphia, PA
Language: English
Page Count: 710
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: None

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