IMPROVEMENTS IN Appa- BATUS FOR RUBBING, FLESHING, SCUDDING, SCOURING, AND STRIKING SKINS, HIDES, AND LEATHER
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Yate Pitts, of Tranmere, in the County
of Chester, Tanner, for the Invention of “ IMPROVEMENTS IN Appa-
BATUS FOR RUBBING, FLESHING, SCUDDING, SCOURING, AND STRIKING SKINS,
HIDES, AND LEATHER”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Yatc Pitts
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th July 1875.
I, GEORGE YATE PITTS, of Tranmere, in the County of Chester,
5 Tanner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR RUBBING, FLESHING, SCUDDING, SCOURING, AND
STRIKING SKINS, HIDES, AND LEATHER," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide simple and durable apparatus
for economically rubbing (such as unhairing and sleeking), fleshing,

page_text: For that
scudding, scouring, and striking skins, hides, and leather.
purpose I employ apparatus having in combination a revolving drum
and a stationary adjustable tool or series of tools, such tools as scrapers,
stones, brushes, and knives The skin, hide, or leather is secured on the
drum, say, at a longitudinal slit therein, by an eccentric gripper, cam,
or other suitable contrivance, and motion given to the drum. The tool
or series of tools is then brought to bear on the moving surface of the
skin, hide, or leather, so as to effect the desired operation. The tool or
series of tools is or are carried in a hinged or otherwise movable frame.
Brushes of any ordinary kind to which longitudinal, reciprocating, or
rotatory motion is imparted are or may be used in combination with the
revolving drum and adjustable-tool or tools.
A machine constructed in accordance with my Invention has the shaft
of a drum carried by strong side framing properly tied together. The
said drum is provided with pullies or gearing to impart motion. Parallel
to the drum is an adjustable frame, two or more frames may be used, in
which the tool or tools is or are secured. Taking blades for striking as
example, I prefer a series of these set at such angles from the centre
towards the edges that they have a tendency to stretch the material
under treatment. The said blades are cach adjustable in the frame by
set screws or like means, and they are bedded against india-rubber or
other springs or weighted levers, so as to rise and fall and provide for
the inequalities of the skin, hide, or leather.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Yate Pitts in the Great Seal Patent 2
Office on the 29th January 1876
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
YATE PITTS, of Tranmere, in the County of Chester, Tanner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 30
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the

page_text: rotatory motion is imparted are or may be used in combination with the
revolving drum and adjustable tool or tools.
A machine constructed in accordance with my Invention has the shaft
of a drum carried by strong side framing properly tied together. The
said drum is provided with pullics or gearing to impart motion. Parallel
to the drum is an adjustable frame; two or more frames may be used, in
which the tool or tools is or arc secured. Taking blades for striking as
example, I prefer a scries of these set at such angles from the centre
towards the edges that they have a tendency to stretch the material
under treatment. The said blades are each adjustable in the frame by
set screws or like means, and they are bedded against india-rubber or
other springs or weighted levers, so as to rise and fall and provide for
the inequalities of the skin. hide, or leather.

page_text: It will be obvious that the brushes and knives can be replaced by
other tools as desired.
Having now described and illustrated the nature of my said Invention,
so that others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect, I
claim the improvements in apparatus, substantially as herein described
and illustrated, for the purposes set forth.
In witness whercof, I, the said George Yate Pitts, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
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