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Figure 14. — Samuel Parker's Patent, 180(S. Americans early in the nineteenth 

 century patented machinery designed to speed the production of leather. Some, 

 like Samuel Parker, hoped wishfully to mechanize the entire operation from raw 

 hide to leather. 



out that the advantage of such a machine, besides saving labor, was 

 that it allowed a hide to be split fresh from the lime pits and thus 

 to "be tanned sooner, with less bark and more thoroughly." The 

 entire production of the so-called fancy leathers — for book bind- 

 ing, for boots, for chaise and carriage tops, and for trunks and 

 hats — promised to increase. Now, wrote Boyden, "a man or a boy 

 of eight or ten years of age will shave eight or ten" hides by ma- 

 chine "to one the usual way" (see hg. 15). 



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