IPC 7 English version
C14C-C14C01500

SECTION C – CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY


C 14SKINS; HIDES; PELTS; LEATHER


C 14 CCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF HIDES, SKINS OR LEATHER, e.g. TANNING, IMPREGNATING, FINISHING; APPARATUS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS FOR TANNING (dyeing or bleaching of leather or furs D06)


Note

 Processes using enzymes or micro-organisms in order to:

 (i)liberate, separate or purify a pre-existing compound or composition, or to

 (ii)treat textiles or clean solid surfaces of materials

 are further classified in subclass C12S.  [5]


Subclass Index

PRETREATMENT 

C14C 1/00 

TANNING; PASTING; IMPREGNATING 

C14C 3/00; C14C 7/00; C14C 9/00 

DEGREASING 

C14C 5/00 

FINISHING; SPECIAL LEATHERS 

C14C 11/00; C14C 13/00 

APPARATUS 

C14C 15/00 



1/

00Chemical treatment prior to tanning

1/

02.Curing raw hides

1/

04.Soaking

1/

06.Facilitating unhairing, e.g. by painting, by liming

1/

08.Deliming; Bating; Pickling; Degreasing


3/

00Tanning; Compositions for tanning

3/

02.Chemical tanning

3/

04..Mineral tanning

3/

06...using chromium compounds

3/

08..by organic agents

3/

10...Vegetable tanning

3/

12....using purified or modified vegetable tanning agents

3/

14...Fat tanning; Oil tanning

3/

16...using aliphatic aldehydes

3/

18...using polycondensation products or precursors thereof

3/

20....sulfonated

3/

22...using polymerisation products

3/

24...using lignin derivatives, e.g. sulfate liquor

3/

26...using other organic substances, containing halogen

3/

28..Multi-step processes

3/

30..using physical means combined with chemical means

3/

32.Recovering tanning agents from leather


5/

00Degreasing leather


7/

00Pasting processes (chemical part)


9/

00Impregnating leather for preserving, waterproofing, making resistant to heat or similar purposes

9/

02.using fatty or oily materials, e.g. fat liquoring

9/

04.Fixing tanning agents in the leather


11/

00Surface finishing of leather


13/

00Manufacture of special kinds of leather, e.g. vellum (chamois tanning C14C 3/14)

13/

02.Manufacture of technical leather


15/

00Apparatus for chemical treatment or washing of hides, skins, or leather