Formerly this work was all done by hand, and on the more expensive furs like seal and beaver, unhairing is now done on a machine operated by hand.
Light calf skins may be ready for unhairing within a week, while hides intended to be finished for "raw hide leather" may be left in the pits quite a month, the object being to distend and harden the fibres.
When the hair is judged to be sufficiently loose, the sides are washed in cold water and put in the stocks again for about ten minutes, when all the hair will be removed; or the hair may be scraped off in the unhairing machine.
Somebody must invent an unhairing device to do away with the taking off of the white hair by hand.
You go to unhairing skins, Olsen," Bryant commanded, putting his hand firmly but kindly on the broad shoulder of the man.
But theunhairing of the sheep pelts was a different problem.
If this process is to be used for unhairing and liming effect, the goods must be first subjected to a putrid soak to loosen the hair, and afterwards limed.
The general procedure is first to lime the goods and then to remove any scales (in the case of snake skins) by scraping with an unhairing knife on a small beam, after which the skins are bated and tanned in sumach by paddling.
In this way the goods are pulled down to a soft flaccid condition, which allows of the removal of short hair, hair sacs and other filth by scudding with an unhairing knife upon the beam.
Unhairing is sometimes assisted by the use of arsenic sulphide.
After unhairing and fleshing the goods are bated in pigeon dung for four days at a temperature of about 78 deg.
The sweating process is the most ancient method of unhairing and is used in America for hides as well as sheepskins.
In the beam house, too, fleshing, unhairing and scudding are rapidly becoming machine instead of hand operations.
More sulphydrate may be obtained in solution in this way, and the unhairing may be in about half the time.
Unhairing and fleshing by hand labour is still common, in order to avoid great pressure on the plumped hide.
The presence of short hair which both unhairing and scudding have failed to remove also is usually more evident.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhairing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
