Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Aniline Colors

35 receipts in this part of Practical Receipts and Processes.

To Clean Ink Rollers

Rollers enough to take fire, stir in by degrees suffishould not be washed immediately after use, cient lampblack to make the mixture black…

Black Printing Ink

Boil 1½ gallons old clear linseed oil to the consistence of a thick varnish; whilst hot, add to it, during constant stirring, first 6…

Lithographic Ink (M Lasteyrie states that after)

M. Lasteyrie states that, after having tried a great many combinations, he gives the preference to the following:-Dry tallow soap, mastich…

Black or Colored Printing Ink

Balsam copaiba, 9 ounces; lampblack, 3 ounces; Paris blue, 14 ounces; Indian red, ounes; dry resin soap, 3 ounces. These will produce a…

New Ink for Printers

A new in distilled or river water. It should be flowink for printers has been invented by Professor Artus, and Mr. Fleckstein, a…

Durable Autographic Ink

White wax, 8 ounces; and white soap, 2 to 3 ounces; melt; when well combined add lampnew, beautiful, and cheap ink is described as follows…

Indelible Printing Ink

Mix 1 the same way as common water-color cakes pound varnish (such as is used for ordinary or Indian ink. In winter this should be done…

Lithographic Ink (Grind together parts mastich)

Grind together 8 parts mastich, in tears, and 12 parts shellac; dissolve carefully by heat in 1 part Venice turpentine; after the mixture…

Lithographic Transfer Ink

Melt together 8 parts white wax and 2 parts tained from coal tar (not from petroleum). In white soap; and, before they become hot preparing…

Aniline Green

Aniline green is produced from a solution of sulphate of rosaniline in dilute sulphuric acid and some aldehyde, which is heated till its…

To Prepare Aldehyde

Aldebegins to boil at 374°, and at 3920 has lostonly hyde is made by filling a tubulated glass re- 60 per cent. Evidently with these…

Rosaniline, or Fuchsine

The duced, the mixture commences to boil and alprincipal methods for the manufacture of fuch- dehyde begins to distill over, the remainder…

Aniline Blue (Re- colors The most sensitive)

Aniline blue re- colors. The most sensitive among these, for ults from various processes. The one most impure alcohol, is aniline purple…

To Remove Aniline Colors

There are various ways proposed to remove aniline colors, the following being the simplest and most practical. Goods dyed with aniline…

Aniline Black

When a salt of aniline in solution is exposed to the action of certain oxydizers, as salts of copper, a black dye, of such depth that…

Aniline Black for Dyeing

According to Mr. Köchlin, aniline black is produced as follows: Water, 20 to 20 parts; chlorate of potassa, 1 part; sal ammoniac, 1 part…

Aniline Black on Wool

For 2568. New Mordant Applicable to 2 pounds of wool a bath is prepared of 20 Aniline Colors. For this purpose the oxide quarts water, 3…

Aniline Cerise and Safranine

These colors resemble magenta in appearance, and appear to be varieties of that substance. They are readily soluble in alcohol, and more or…

To Dye Aniline Yellow

This color is slightly soluble in water, and for dyers' use may be used directly for the presive passages through a solution of nitrate or…

To Dye Silk or Wool Magenta

is developed, similar to the yellow of picric Sufficient water to cover, without difficulty, acid, and which M. Schiff claims to possess…

To Dye with Aniline Brown

mordant is required. A snuff brown, more or less deep, is produced. 2582. Το Prepare Aniline Scarlet Add a sufficient quantity of the dye…

To Dye with Aniline Scarlet

Add to the bath containing the dye, an excess of alum and cream of tartar; neutralize carefully by carbonate of soda-the exact point may be…

To Dye Wool Bismarck Brown

Render the bath, prepared as in No. 2491, sour with sulphuric acid; add a quantity of sulphate of soda, immerse the wool, and add the color…

To Dye Aniline Scarlet

For every 40 pounds of goods, dissolve 5 pounds Brown. Cotton requires mordanting with white vitriol (sulphate of zinc) at 180c Fahr…

To Prepare Coralline Dye

Dissolve 1 pound coralline in 1½ gallons alcohol specific gravity .8200, by the aid of heat; mix the solution with 7½ gallons boiling…

To Dye with Vesuvine

This aniline color is prepared and used in the same manner as magenta. (Sce No. 2575, ctc.)

To Dye with Aurine

Dissolve 1 pound aurine in 2 gallons alcohol specific gravity 8200. This color is used principally for silk. Dye in a bath containing a…

To Dye with Palatine Orange

The palatine orange dye is prepared in a similar manner to magenta. (See No. 2575.) Render the bath slightly acid by bichloride of tin, and…

To Dye with Coralline

Add the color prepared as in No. 2585, to the dye bath, and neutrallize with acetic acid. The exact point is indicated by the pink color of…

To Dye with Phosphine

merse the goods, and, when the required color Phosphine is treated in the same way as palais obtained, remove and wash in a bath of tine…

Water-Glass as a Solvent of soap bath

Coralline. Dissolve coralline in a boiling 2598. To Dye Silk with Aniline mixture of 1 part concentrated water-glass Green. Iodine green…

To Dye with Iodine Green

Green. Mix 3 pounds of iodine green paste well with about 24 pounds of cold water; then add sucfor stirring, put1 pound of the dye, 5…

To Dye with Picric Acid

Dis- be rendered alkaline by borax. The fabric solve 1 pound picric acid in 1 gallon of alcohol should be well worked about between each be…

To Dye with Aniline Blue

To 100 pounds of fabric dissolve 14 pounds of aniline blue in 3 quarts hot alcohol; strain strain through a filter, and add it to a bath of…

To Dye with Hoffman's Purple

as this will make the fabric more susceptible to the color. Blues soluble in water color The dye is prepared as other purples. (See more…

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