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US2999003A
US2999003A US791515A US79151559A US2999003A US 2999003 A US2999003 A US 2999003A US 791515 A US791515 A US 791515A US 79151559 A US79151559 A US 79151559A US 2999003 A US2999003 A US 2999003A
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
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    • C14CCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF HIDES, SKINS OR LEATHER, e.g. TANNING, IMPREGNATING, FINISHING; APPARATUS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS FOR TANNING
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  • This invention relates to a novel combination of matter, tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate, and to its use as a leather tanning agent.
  • chromium tanning is a process which has been use for many years, the chemistry involved is not thoroughly understood. It is usually considered that only basic chromic salts such as CrOHSO are tanning agents. Nonbasic salts such as chromic sulfate do not tan leather. Aqueous chromium chemistry is quite complicated with various hydrates being formed along with hydrolysis and olation.
  • Chrome tanning agents are currently produced by reduction of chromates with (1) sugar or (2) sulfur dioxide. Those tanning agents produced by sugar reductions give leather of different qualities than do the sulfur dioxide reduced tanning agents. This has heretofore been considered to be due to mixed organic compounds which were complexed with chromium. This has given rise to considerable investigation of masking agents, i.e., organic materials added to the chrome tanning agents to complex with the chromium and alter the tanning effect. Accordingly, much work has been done on the eifects of formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid, etc., when added to chrome tanning agents. While various masking agents have been added to basic chromium salts, no Work has been done with tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate or related materials as tanning agents.
  • An object of this invention is to provide a new tanning agent which produces a high degree of tanning rapidly.
  • Another object is to provide a tanning agent which does not require close pH control, and still another object is to provide a tanning agent which is effective at high pHs and which allows process simplifications.
  • tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate is used as a tanning agent.
  • tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate tanning agent When tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate tanning agent is used, close control of pH is not necessary, and the tonnage may even be eiiective at pHs as high as 10. The tanning process is therefore simplified.
  • Tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate can be produced in a number of ways. For example, it can be made by the reaction of barium hydroxyacetate with chromic sulfate or potassium chrome alum, in aqueous solution, followed by removal of barium sulfate, thus producing an aqueous solution of the desired salt. It can also be produced by the reaction of sodium hydroxyacetate with a chromic salt. In these cases the tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate produced has the chromium in the anion and therefore is properly called a chromiate. The complex is quite stable to hydrolysis being unaffected at pHs as high as 11. At these high pHs the tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate may exist as a salt, e.g., where the cation is a metal such as sodium.
  • Example I 250 ml. of 0.336 M chromic sulfate solution were placed in a flask. In a beaker 39.9 g. of barium hydroxide (Ba(OH) -8H O) and 27.5 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid were mixed. Considerable heat was evolved and while the mixture was still warm, it was added to the chromic sulfate solution with thorough mixing. The precipitated barium sulfate was removed by filtration. The pH of this solution was approximately 1.7. Evaporation of a portion of this solution gave tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate, as a blue-black solid residue. 5 cc. portions were removed and pH raised with 1 N sodium hydroxide.
  • barium hydroxide Ba(OH) -8H O
  • the shrink temperature i.e. the minimum temperature at which marked shrinking of the leather is observed when the sample is heated in water is a measure of the degree of tanning, the higher the shrink temperaand pH of tanning in the experiments just described.
  • Example II 255 g. of potassium chrome alum (K SO .Cr (SO .24l-I O) was dissolved in 1200 m1. of water. 315 g. of barium hydroxide (Ba(OH) .8H O) and 218 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid previously mixed. Precipitated barium sulfate was removed by filtration. 5 ml.
  • Example III 127.5 g. of potassium chrome alum (K S0 .(Cr (SO .24H O) V was dissolved in 600 ml. of water. To this was added 109 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid and 40 g. of sodium hydroxide. Raw kidskin was agitated with portions of To this was added.
  • Example IV I Shrink Temperature, C. HAA/Cr Mole Ratio pH 3.524 pH 6 pH 8 52 s1 precipitated. 65 87 Do. 78 86 73; 81 86 65. 78 78 It is apparent from these that approximately 3:1 hydroxyacetate:chromium mole ratio is necessary to prevent precipitation at high pH but that at pH of 6, 1:1 mole ratio produces an eflective tannage.
  • Example V Ten grams of chromic acid (CrO was dissolved in 50 ml. of water and the resulting solution of chromic acid was slowly added to 38 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid. The reaction mixture became quite hot and a considerable evolution of gas occurred.
  • Example VI A solution of 14.9 g. of sodium dichromate (Na2CI'207.2H20) in ml. of water was added slowly to 38 g. of hydroxyacetic acid. The reaction was quite vigorous with considerable gas evolution. Three portions were removed and the pH was raised to 4, 6 and 8 respectively with l N sodium hydroxide solution. Small pieces of pickled kidskin were agitated in these solutions for the lengths of time shown in the following table and the shrink temperature determined. Additional sodium hydroxide was added during tanning to maintain the pH at the stated level.

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United States Patent 2,999,003 LEATHER TANNING AGENT AND PROCESS John Harris Haslam, Landenberg, Pa., assignor to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DeL, a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Filed Feb. 6, 1959, Ser. No. 791,515 2 Claims. (Cl. 8--94.27)
This invention relates to a novel combination of matter, tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate, and to its use as a leather tanning agent.
Although chromium tanning is a process which has been use for many years, the chemistry involved is not thoroughly understood. It is usually considered that only basic chromic salts such as CrOHSO are tanning agents. Nonbasic salts such as chromic sulfate do not tan leather. Aqueous chromium chemistry is quite complicated with various hydrates being formed along with hydrolysis and olation.
Chrome tanning agents are currently produced by reduction of chromates with (1) sugar or (2) sulfur dioxide. Those tanning agents produced by sugar reductions give leather of different qualities than do the sulfur dioxide reduced tanning agents. This has heretofore been considered to be due to mixed organic compounds which were complexed with chromium. This has given rise to considerable investigation of masking agents, i.e., organic materials added to the chrome tanning agents to complex with the chromium and alter the tanning effect. Accordingly, much work has been done on the eifects of formic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid, etc., when added to chrome tanning agents. While various masking agents have been added to basic chromium salts, no Work has been done with tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate or related materials as tanning agents.
An object of this invention is to provide a new tanning agent which produces a high degree of tanning rapidly.
Another object is to provide a tanning agent which does not require close pH control, and still another object is to provide a tanning agent which is effective at high pHs and which allows process simplifications.
According to this invention tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate, is used as a tanning agent. When tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate tanning agent is used, close control of pH is not necessary, and the tonnage may even be eiiective at pHs as high as 10. The tanning process is therefore simplified.
Tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate can be produced in a number of ways. For example, it can be made by the reaction of barium hydroxyacetate with chromic sulfate or potassium chrome alum, in aqueous solution, followed by removal of barium sulfate, thus producing an aqueous solution of the desired salt. It can also be produced by the reaction of sodium hydroxyacetate with a chromic salt. In these cases the tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate produced has the chromium in the anion and therefore is properly called a chromiate. The complex is quite stable to hydrolysis being unaffected at pHs as high as 11. At these high pHs the tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate may exist as a salt, e.g., where the cation is a metal such as sodium.
. ture the higher the degree of tanning. The following table shows the relationship between shrink temperature The invention is illustrated further by means of the following examples. It will be seen from these examples that by the addition of hydroxyacetic acid salts to non-basic chromic salts, the latter which will not tan leather are converted to effective tanning agents. This should be differentiated from the addition of masking agents which is done to basic chromic salts. It has been Patented Sept. 5, 1961 hydroxyacetic acid salts to nonbasic chromic salts pro-,
duces a quite different efiect than does the addition of hydroxyacetic acid salts to basic chromic salts.
Example I 250 ml. of 0.336 M chromic sulfate solution were placed in a flask. In a beaker 39.9 g. of barium hydroxide (Ba(OH) -8H O) and 27.5 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid were mixed. Considerable heat was evolved and while the mixture was still warm, it was added to the chromic sulfate solution with thorough mixing. The precipitated barium sulfate was removed by filtration. The pH of this solution was approximately 1.7. Evaporation of a portion of this solution gave tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate, as a blue-black solid residue. 5 cc. portions were removed and pH raised with 1 N sodium hydroxide. Small pieces of pickled kidskin were placed in these solutions and agitated for 30 minutes. Addi tional sodium hydroxide was added as requiredto maintain the pH at the desired point. After 30 minutes the kidskin was removed, pressed between blotting paper to remove excess liquid and the shrink temperature determined. The shrink temperature (i.e. the minimum temperature at which marked shrinking of the leather is observed when the sample is heated in water) is a measure of the degree of tanning, the higher the shrink temperaand pH of tanning in the experiments just described.
pH: Shrink temperature, C.
78.0. Above 100.0. Above 100.0. 86.0.
Example II 255 g. of potassium chrome alum (K SO .Cr (SO .24l-I O) was dissolved in 1200 m1. of water. 315 g. of barium hydroxide (Ba(OH) .8H O) and 218 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid previously mixed. Precipitated barium sulfate was removed by filtration. 5 ml.
aliquots were removed and small pieces of pickled kid- P was maintained by the addition of 1 N sodium hydroxide skin were tanned for 30 minutes at various pHs.
Example III 127.5 g. of potassium chrome alum (K S0 .(Cr (SO .24H O) V was dissolved in 600 ml. of water. To this was added 109 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid and 40 g. of sodium hydroxide. Raw kidskin was agitated with portions of To this was added.
this solution as described in Example 1. temperatures were as follows:
The shrink For comparison with the foregoing, a commercial chrome tannage which was 50% Cr (SO (OI-I) the remainder being largely Na SO was tested as a tanning agent in combination with sodium hydroxyacetate. 16.5 g. of this commercial tanning agent was dissolved in 100 ml. of water. 30 minute tanning of pickled kidskin withthis solution at a pH of 3.6 produced a leather with shrink temperature of 88 C. To a 25 ml. portion was added 7.5 ml. of 5 N hydroxyacetate solution to give a hydroxyacetic acid/chromium mole ratio of 3:1. .30 minute tanning of pickled kidskin at a pH of 414' with this solution gave a shrink temperature of 81 C. It is apparent from these results that the addition of hydroxyacetate ion to basic chromic sulfate does not improve its" effectiveness as a tanning agent and in fact may lessen it.
Example IV I Shrink Temperature, C. HAA/Cr Mole Ratio pH 3.524 pH 6 pH 8 52 s1 precipitated. 65 87 Do. 78 86 73; 81 86 65. 78 78 It is apparent from these that approximately 3:1 hydroxyacetate:chromium mole ratio is necessary to prevent precipitation at high pH but that at pH of 6, 1:1 mole ratio produces an eflective tannage.
Example V Ten grams of chromic acid (CrO was dissolved in 50 ml. of water and the resulting solution of chromic acid was slowly added to 38 g. of 70% hydroxyacetic acid. The reaction mixture became quite hot and a considerable evolution of gas occurred.
Five ml. of the resulting solution was removed and the pH was raised to 6 by adding 1 N sodium hydroxide solution. A small piece of pickled kidskin was agitated with this solution for 30 minutes. The kidskin was removed and pressed between blotter paper to remove excess solution. The shrink temperature was found to be 88 C.
Example VI A solution of 14.9 g. of sodium dichromate (Na2CI'207.2H20) in ml. of water was added slowly to 38 g. of hydroxyacetic acid. The reaction Was quite vigorous with considerable gas evolution. Three portions were removed and the pH was raised to 4, 6 and 8 respectively with l N sodium hydroxide solution. Small pieces of pickled kidskin were agitated in these solutions for the lengths of time shown in the following table and the shrink temperature determined. Additional sodium hydroxide was added during tanning to maintain the pH at the stated level.
Shrink Tem- The chemical structure of the tris(hydroxyacetato) chromiate in its completely ionized state can he formulated as follows:
References Cited in the file of thispatent UNITED STATES PATENTS Goebel et'al. Mar. 13, 1951 OTHER REFERENCES Progress in Leather Science, British Leather Manufacturers Research Asso., London, pp. 520-522.

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  1. 2. PROCESS FOR CHROME TANNING LEATHER WHICH COMPRISES EMPLOYING TRIS(HYDROXYACETATO) CHROMIATE AS TANNING AGENT.
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US3968135A (en) * 1970-01-19 1976-07-06 Aerojet-General Corporation Chromium salt catalysts
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US3174817A (en) * 1960-10-28 1965-03-23 Bayer Ag Chrome-acetate complex tannage
US3493318A (en) * 1964-10-05 1970-02-03 Diamond Shamrock Corp Tanning composition made from a basic chrome sulfate and a tris(hydroxyacetato)chromiate
US3968135A (en) * 1970-01-19 1976-07-06 Aerojet-General Corporation Chromium salt catalysts
US20120024714A1 (en) * 2010-07-29 2012-02-02 Sik-Choi Kwon Trivalent chromium plating solution and plating method using the same

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