Patent ID: 7690228
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: C14B

Abstract:
1. Method for the drying a leather side of pelts from furred animals which have a leather side and a fur side, comprising the steps of: applying a pelt stretched on the outside of pelt board, which is formed of a hollow distension element having surfaces which have an openwork structure and bound a cavity extending lengthwise through the interior of the distension element, with the leather side facing the surfaces of the hollow distension element, and securing the pelt in on the pelt board by the drawing of a holding-bag over at least a part of a lower end of the pelt so as to press the pelt against the board, mounting the pelt board with the pelt thereon in an upstanding position and drying of the leather side of the pelt by replacement of air inside a cavity of the distension element by exchanging the air within the cavity of the hollow distension element by directing a flow of air through the cavity via at least one of an opening in a foot end of the hollow distension element and openings in a protruding top portion of the hollow distension element.