THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL RE- 

 FINING AND BOILING, AND KINDRED INDUS- 

 TRIES. Describing the Manufacture of Spirit Varnishes 

 and Oil Varnishes ; Raw Materials : Resins, Solvents and Colouring 

 Principles; Drying Oils: their Properties, Applications and Prepara- 

 tion by both Hot and Cold Processes; Manufacture. Employment and 

 Testing of Different Varnishes. Translated from the French of ACH. 

 LIVACHE, Ingenieur Civil des Mines. Greatly Extended and Adapted 

 to English Practice, with numerous Original Recipes. By JOHN 

 GEDDES MC!NTOSH, Lecturer on Oils, Colours and Varnishes, Regent 

 Street Polytechnic. Twenty-seven Illustrations. 400 pp. 1899. 

 Price 12s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 13s. 8d. ; Other Countries, 15s.; 

 strictly net, post free. 



Contents. 



I. Resins: Gum Resins, Oleo Resins and Balsams, Commercial Varieties, Source, Colleo 

 tion, Characteristics, Chemical Properties, Physical Properties, Hardness, Adulterations 

 Appropriate Solvents, Special Treatment. Special Use. II. Solvents: Natural, Artificial, 



Manufacture, Storage, Special Use. III. Colouring : Principles, (1) Vegetable, (2) Coal Tar, 

 (3) Coloured Resinates, (4) Coloured Oleates and Linoleates. Gum Running: Furnaces, 

 Bridges, Flues, Chimney Shafts, Melting Pots, Co 

 Vessels, Iron Vessels (Cast), Iron Vessels (Wrought), Iron Vessels (Silvered), Iron Vessels 



Bridges, Flues, Chimney Shafts, Melting Pots, Condensers, Boiling or Mixing Pans, Copper 



ates. Gum Running: Fu 

 , Boiling or Mixing Pans, 



(Enamelled), Steam Superheated Plant, Hot-air Plant. Spirit Varnish Manufacture: Cold 

 Solution Plant. Mechanical Agitators, Hot Solution Plant, Jacketted Pans, Mechanica^ 

 Agitators, Clarification and Filtration, Bleaching Plant, Storage Plant. Manufacture, Char- 

 acteristics and Uses of the Spirit Varnishes yielded by : Amber, Copal, Dammar, Shellac, 

 Mastic, Sandarac, Rosin, Asphalt, India Rubber, Gutta Percha, Collodion, Celluloid, Resin- 

 ates, Oleates. Manufacture of Varnish Stains.- Manufacture of Lacquers. Manufacture of 

 Spirit Enamels. Analysis of Spirit Varnishes. Physical and Chemical Constants of Resins. 

 Table of Solubility of Resins in different Menstrua. Systematic qualitative Analysis of 

 Resins, Hirschop's tables. Drying Oils: Oil Crushing Plant, Oil Extraction Plant, Individual 

 Oils, Special Treatment of Linseed Oil, Poppyseed Oil, Walnut Oil, Hempseed Oil, Llamantia 

 Oil, Japanese Wood Oil, Gurjun Balsam, Climatic Influence on Seed and Oil. Oil Refining 

 Processes, Thenard's, Liebig's, Filtration, Storage, Old Tanked Oil. Oil Boiling: Fire Boil- 

 ng Plant, Steam Boiling Plant, Hot-Air Plant, Air Pumps, Mechanical Agitators, Vincent's 

 Process, Hadfield's Patent, Storer's Patent, Walton's Processes, Continental Processes, Pale 

 Boiled Oil, Double Boiled Oil, Hartley and Blenkinsop's Process. Driers : Manufacture, 

 Special Individual Use of (1) Litharge, (2) Sugar of Lead, (3> Red Lead, (4) Lead Borate, 

 (5) Lead Linoleate, (6) Lead Resinate, (7) Black Oxide of Manganese, (8) Manganese Acetate, 

 (9) Manganese Borate, (10) Manganese Resinate, (11) Manganese Linoleate, Mixed Resinates 

 and Linoleates, Manganese and Lead, Zinc Sulphate, Terebine, Liquid Driers. Solidified 

 Boiled Oil. Manufacture of Linoleum. Manufacture of India Rubber Substitutes. Printing 

 Ink Manufacture- - Lithographic Ink Manufacture. Manufacture of Oil Varnishes. Running 

 and Special Treatment of Amber, Copal, Kauri, Manilla. Addition of Oil to Resin. Addition 

 of Resin to Oil. Mixed Processes. Solution in Cold of previously Fused Resin. Dissolving 

 Resins in Oil, etc., under pressure. Filtration. Clarification. Storage. Ageing. Coach- 

 makers' Varnishes and Japans. Oak Varnishes. Japanners' Stoving Varnishes. Japanners' 

 Gold Size. Brunswick Black. Various Oil Varnishes. Oil-Varnish Stains. Varnishes for 

 "Enamels". -India Rubber Varnishes. Varnishes Analysis : Processes, Matching. Faults in 

 Varnishes: Cause, Prevention. Experiments and Exercises. 



Press Opinions. 



"There is no question that this is a useful book." Chemist and Druggist. 



" The different formulae which are quoted appear to be far more ' practical ' than such as 

 are usually to be found in text-books ; and assuming that the original was published two or 

 three years ago, and was only slightly behindhand in its information, the present volume gives 

 a fair insight into the position of the varnish industry." The Ironmonger. 



Letter from the Teacher of a Technical Class. 



*' As a teacher*! -have often been consulted as to the best work on Varnish Manufacture 

 and kindred industries, and have been at a loss in recommending a really practical one. It is 

 therefore with pleasure that I can now testify as to the merits of the book on these subjects 

 by A. Livache and J. G. Mclntosh recently published by Messrs. Scott, Greenwood & Co. In 

 my opinion no varnish maker ought to be without it : moreover, it is the best text-book that 

 could be put into the hands of trade students or beginners. It has also the merits of being 

 thoroughly up-to-date and of possessing a remarkably comprehensive index. I can conscien- 

 tiously recommend it to my students and trade friends." CHARLES HARRISON, Lecturer or> 

 the Manufacture of Painters' Oils, Colours and Varnishes, Borough Polytechnic, Borough 

 Road, S.E. 



"'23r t i May, 1899." 



