Some chrome tanners prefer to use the drum tumbler (Fig.
To avoid this danger, many tanners pass the hides or skins through a striking-out machine under light pressure.
Tanners designate as a "pack" each lot of hides or skins they work through, irrespective of the quantity.
So far there are nearly 2,000 tanneries throughout the world where the artificial bating materials are preferred, German and American tanners being the principal users.
This method is rarely used in England, but a few American tanners seem to prefer it for certain classes of hides.
Some of the American tanners use a mechanical contrivance known as the rocker, which consists of a stout wooden beam rocking from a central pivot, and with a see-saw movement.
The quotations for "packer" hides are followed with keen interest by tanners in all parts of the world.
American tanners also use other materials to a smaller extent, chiefly for blending with the principal tannins.
Instead of the rolling machine, some French tanners use the hammering machine, which gives good results, but is necessarily slow and frightfully noisy in action.
Tanners often use a machine known as the "faller stocks" (Fig.
The handler liquors, which are originally sent back from the layers, are also frequently strengthened by the addition of oakwood, chestnut, or quebracho extracts, although some tanners only use extracts in the layers.
American tanners buy large quantities of the best hides and pickled sheep skins.
The tanners are hardly to be blamed for this practice, which really ought to be stopped; it is almost entirely due to the demand of buyers for leather at a low price per lb.
But if the tanners had expected the president of the company to break the ice and open the interview they had missed their calculations, for he did no such thing.
The pickled skins it was simple enough to tan, for they had been carefully prepared for the tanners before being shipped; there were firms, the foreman told Peter, that did just this very thing.
Apart from the fact that tanners were invited from Korea to improve the process followed in Japan, the records contain nothing worthy of attention.
It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.
He is making game of us,' they said; and the shoemakers seized their yard measures and the tanners their leathern aprons and they gave Big Klaus a good beating.
All the shoemakers and tanners came running to ask him what he wanted for them.
Craft guilds grew up in the towns, such as the tanners at Oxford, which later merged with the shoemakers into a cordwainers' guild.
Tanners who make a notorious default in leather which is found by a cordwainer shall make a forfeiture.
The notorious offenders in matters of public hygiene in the towns, such as the butchers, the fishmongers, and the leather tanners were assigned specific localities where their trades would do least harm.
Until he had got the tanners to start a cooperative business, he ran the risk of having his feet knocked away from under him at any moment.
In the spring we shall want capital to start the tannerswith a cooperative tannery," he said.
My friend," said the Revolutionist, "it is the tanners and tinkers I want to get at.
It would then be comprehensible to all University men; your logic would be duly and deliberately weighed: and the tanners and tinkers, who are so very impressionable, would not be poisoned by it.
The tanners carried on their industries by chemical processes similar to those in use to-day.
Tanning was highly developed, and the tanners turned out leathers which are to-day admired for their excellence.
Skins not valuable for art purposes were sent to the tanners to be converted into various kinds of leather.
He is making fools of us," said they all; then the shoemakers took their straps, and the tanners their leather aprons, and began to beat Great Claus.
All the shoemakers and tanners came running, and asked how much he wanted for them.
The price of shoes pays all shoemakers, whether what they contribute to the manufacturing is labor, capital, or mere cooerdination; and it also pays ranchmen and tanners for what they contribute in the shape of leather, raw and dressed.
Nearly three hundred members of this Bengal caste of tannersand workers in leather were returned at the census, 1901.
They were, I gather from the Bombay Gazetteer, Dhors or tanners who dwell in various parts of the Bombay Presidency, and whose home speech, names and surnames seem to show that they have come from the Maratha country.
Illustration: The Shoemakers and Tanners Drive Big Klaus Out of the Town] Little Klaus' grandmother had just died.
In London the tanners were held partly responsible for blocking the course of the Fleet in 1306.
Tanners may not be shoemakers, curriers, butchers, or leatherworkers.
But later he returned to the house, and found the Tanners about to depart.
British tanners were therefore encouraged to make more chrome sole and less vegetable sole.
Many tanners use bought liquors--"chrome extracts" which are supposed to be specially devised to suit the tannage of chrome calf.
Here again, however, are differences; some tannersprefer to split after two days, others after two weeks in tan.
Dressing leather is often treated in different factories; tanners selling it as rough leather and "curriers" finishing it.
Tanners also have begun to realize the advantages not only of more rapid and complete extraction, but also of doing the work for themselves, and extract factories are beginning to appear as an adjunct to the larger tanneries.
But in 1639 we find that the Tanners were thought to be overstepping their powers; the corporation appointed a committee to examine their composition.
Tanners as a class were despised and comparatively outcast among the Jews.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tanners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
