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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6112559 | Hide stretching apparatus A modular oscillating head, particularly for stretching and softening industrial hides and similar products, comprising flexible mats (31, 32) for the continuous longitudinal advancement of the hides between at least one pair of plates with facing tools u... | 09/05/2000 |
| 4802348 | Apparatus for tentering hides An apparatus for tentering a hide including endless tentering mats (1, 2) driven along continuous upper and lower paths. The mats (1, 2) are pressed together over a portion of the continuous path by compressed air. A stretching assembly that grips the mat... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4689974 | Skin holder in an apparatus for letting out skins A skin holding device on an apparatus for letting out skins is driven by drive devices to follow the treatment and feed tools acting on the skin, so that the skin zone received in the skin holding device is moved synchronously with the skin zone gripped b... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4620427 | Transport device on an apparatus for letting out skins An apparatus for letting out skins comprises behind the parting sword a needle bar movable up and down which is movable in addition parallel to the drawoff direction of the skin through a drive mechanism. Together with a supporting plate movable up and do... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4617809 | Flow press, especially flow sammying machine, for the production and processing of leather In flow presses for the production and processing of leather, especially in sammying (drying) machines, the need exists for a preliminary effective stretching and widening of the leather to prevent the forming of creases. In a flow press with a pair of pr... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4567739 | Platform for introducing sheet materials, particularly in leather splitting machines and the like Platform for introducing sheet materials, particularly in leather splitting machines and the like, consisting of a plate suitable to slide in a reciprocating manner on a fixed level disposed at the top of a bearing structure. Balls are interposed between ... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4416125 | Feed device equipment for letting out hides Equipment for letting out hides, in which the hides are cut several times obliquely to their lateral edges, the hide parts are then laterally offset and then sewn together again. A gripping tool is provided and is movable crosswise and lengthwise to the c... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4100772 | Continuous leather processing machine The invention comprises a machine for the continuous processing of leather hides using a table board which is fed lengthways through at least one pair of processing tools lying parallel and opposite to each other. The leather hide to be processed is place... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4086793 | Device for moistening and conditioning leather and the like This invention relates to apparatus for moistening and conditioning sheet materials for example leathers and similar materials. The apparatus comprises two endless moisture-absorbent conveyor belts which come together, in the operation of the apparatus, b... | 05/02/1978 |
