Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — ARTIFICIAL LEATHER. [ARTICLE]

ARTIFICIAL LEATHER.

Frenchman Invents Method for Utilizing Refuse Skins and Hides. Consul General Hughes writes from Coburg, that, according to the German press, fibroleum, a new artificial leather, has just been invented by a Frenchman. It consists of pieces of refuse skin 6 and hides, cut exceedingly small, which are put into a vat filled with an intensely alkaline solution. After the mass has become pulpy, it is taken out of the vat, placed in a specially-constructed machine, and after undergoing treatment therein, is again taken out and fmt through a paper-making machine. The resulting paper-like substance is cut into large sheets, which ar? laid one upon another, in lots of from 100 to 1,000, and put into a hydraulic pres* to remove all moisture. The article is strong and pliable, and can be pressed or molded into all kinds of shapes and patterns. It is said to make the best kind of wall paper. Decorators who have used this article speak of it in the highest terms.