CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF TANNERIES.

Selection of site — Arrangement of buildings — Fire insurance — Automatic sprinklers — Possibility of extension — Production and distribution of power — Electric motors — Shafts, pulleys and belting — Balancing of machinery — Fire-risk from bark mills — Chain-conveyors — Lubricating oils — Construction of pits — Underground pipes and overhead troughs — Pumps and pumping appliances PAGE [444]

CHAPTER XXVIII.

WASTE PRODUCTS AND THEIR DISPOSAL.

Hair — Fleshings and glue-stuff — Fat — Bate-shavings — Horns — Spent tan — Tan-furnaces — Sewage and other waste liquids — Chemical purification of sewage — Settling tanks — Filter-presses — Bacterial purification of sewage — Tannery waste-liquors PAGE [460]

APPENDIX A.

METHOD OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LEATHER-TRADES CHEMISTS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF TANNING MATERIALS: Corrected to 1901.

Sampling from bulk — Preparation for analysis — Preparation of infusion — Determination of tanning matters and non-tannins — Colour-measurement — Analysis of used liquors PAGE [475]

APPENDIX B.

THE DECIMAL SYSTEM.