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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7247994 | Methods and apparatuses for mounting a wireless network component to a fluorescent light The invention provides methods and apparatuses for mounting a wireless network component to a fluorescent light. The internal electronics of the wireless network component are contained within a housing. Attachment means are used to attach the housing to a fluoresce... | 07/24/2007 |
| 6589293 | Depilatory paint thickener comprising an anylopectin starch The invention relates to the dehairing (depilating) of animal pelts, hides or skins, more specifically to depilatory paint and depilatory paint (depilation paint) thickener used in the depilation process in for example fellmongeries. The invention provide... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6251414 | Aqueous formulation for pretanning raw hides There is disclosed an aqueous formulation for pretanning leather, which formulation comprises (a) a reductive saccharide having a dextrose equivalent of 10 to 100, and (b) an aliphatic dialdehyde containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms, and which is devoid of mineral s... | 06/26/2001 |
| 5972037 | Leather tanning processes and the products thereof The production of household-machine washable and dryable, waterproof, nonflammable, and extremely colorfast leathers from wet blue hides by a process which has the advantage that significantly reduced volumes of toxic wastes are generated. The wet blue hi... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5900027 | Process for preparing animal hides or pelts In order to make processes for finishing animal hides or pelts less labor-intensive and more environmentally compatible, a process is proposed in which, following a conventionally conducted soak, the animal hides or pelts are treated with a conventional t... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5885302 | Leather tanning process The present invention refers to a new process meant for chrome and/or vegetable leather tanning. The process proposed by the invention comprises the steps of bating or purging, conditioning, and chrome and/or vegetable tannage. The conditioning step uses ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5571443 | Synergistic combination of 2-(thiocyanomethylthio)benzothiazole and thiophanate compounds useful as fungicides A method for preventing the deterioration of leather by controlling the growth of fungus, wherein the leather is contacted with TCMTB and a thiophanate compound present in a combined amount synergistically effective to control the growth of at least one f... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5516338 | Water-soluble titanium salt-tannin dyes and methods of use thereof An aqueous dye composition is based upon a mixture of a water-soluble titanium salt, preferably titanium potassium oxalate and a tannin substance, preferably Myrobalan extract. This dye composition may be used to dye either natural fibers, synthetic fiber... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5512058 | Process for the treatment of skins, hides or shett materials containing collagen by a dense, pressurized fluid A process for the treatment of products constituted by hides and skins with a view towards their transformation into leather, and for the treatment of leather which involves contacting the product with a dense, pressurized fluid, such as CO2, i... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5425783 | Technique of tanning snake skins, and a material for painting and calligraphy produced by the technique The invention relates to a technique of tanning snake skins and a material for painting and calligraphy produced from such snake skins processed by the technique, taking snake skins as raw material. The products obtained by means of this technique are of ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 4784664 | Non-chrome tanning method The present process yields superior leather materials from limed hides, without the use of chromium salts, by combining a series of essential method steps in a sequence which yields leather having a "chrome" character. The present chromium-free tanning pr... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4740211 | Chromium-free tanning process The present process yields superior leather materials from limed hides, without the use of chromium salts, by combining a series of essential method steps in a sequence which yields leather having a "chrome" character. The present chromium-free tanning pr... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4443221 | Tanning method What are disclosed are improved methods for the preparation of leather wherein, in one or more steps for preparing leather from limed animal skins or hides, including beamhouse operations such as deliming, bating, pickling, and degreasing to prepare unhai... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4398911 | Tanning method What is disclosed are improved methods for the preparation of leather wherein, in one or more steps for preparing leather from animal skins or hides, including beamhouse operations such as soaking, dehairing, opening of the hide structure, deliming, batin... | 08/16/1983 |
| 3945792 | Process for the filling of leather and compositions therefor A process for the filling of leather tanned with mineral, vegetable and/or synthetic tanning agents by treating the leather, in the acid pH-range , with an aqueous solution of a filling agent consisting of unsubstituted or substituted homo- or copolymeric... | 03/23/1976 |
