C14B MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES, OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES
Introduced: September 1968
Classification Context
- Section:
- CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- Class:
- SKINS; HIDES; PELTS OR LEATHER
- Subclass:
- MECHANICAL TREATMENT OR PROCESSING OF SKINS, HIDES, OR LEATHER IN GENERAL; PELT-SHEARING MACHINES; INTESTINE-SPLITTING MACHINES
Description
C14B covers mechanical operations applied to raw or partially processed skins, hides, and leather materials to prepare them for further treatment or final use. This includes machinery and methods for physical manipulation such as cleaning, splitting, stretching, shaving, and surface preparation of animal pelts and hides. The subclass also encompasses specialized equipment like pelt-shearing machines for removing hair or wool, and intestine-splitting machines used in processing animal byproducts. Chemical treatment, tanning processes, and finishing operations are excluded and fall under related subclasses in the C14 group.
Scope Notes
Glossary: Composite leather composite leathers Leather, permanently fitted together by assembling pieces. Fur furs The body hair of non-human mammals, also known as the pelage. Hide hides Body covering or skin of an animal. Leather leathers Animal hide or skin, which has been tanned. Tanning is a chemical treatment that makes hides and skins durable by preventing decomposition. Pasting process pasting processes An industrial process for stretching and drying wet skins which have been glued (pasted) on a plane surface. Pelt pelts The skin of an animal with hair, fur or wool still attached. Special leather Special leathers Leathers fitted together in some way by assemblying pieces. Technical leather A leather that withstands tough wear and tear and is used, for instance, in the automotive and aviation industries (e.g. belts). | Limiting references: Composite leathers with one or more layers of plastics material Chemical aspects of pasting processes Mechanical or pressure cleaning of hides | Application references: Scalding, scraping, dehairing or singeing of animals after slaughtering Cleaning or cutting intestines during processing of meat Machines for cutting-out or stamping-out leather for shoe parts, e.g. soles Equipment or tools for saddlery
Related Keywords
12 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- C14B 1/00 Manufacture of leather; Machines or devices therefor
- C14B 11/00 Finishing the edges of leather pieces, e.g. by folding, by burning
- C14B 13/00 Shredding hides or leather
- C14B 15/00 Mechanical treatment of furs
- C14B 17/00 Details of apparatus or machines for manufacturing or treating skins, hides, leather, or furs
- C14B 19/00 Hand tools specially adapted for the treatment of hides, skins, or leather in the manufacture of leather or furs
- C14B 21/00 Splitting intestines; Cutting intestines longitudinally
- C14B 3/00 Milling leather
- C14B 5/00 Clicking, perforating, or cutting leather
- C14B 7/00 Special leathers or their manufacture
- C14B 9/00 Making driving belts or other leather belts or strips
- C14B 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass