Abstract: A leather product such as a leather covering for a vehicular part includes a segment of leather with a base coat applied to a hide side and a color coat applied to the base coat to create an intermediate stage leather segment. A foil transfer is embossed into and secured with an adhesive to the intermediate stage leather segment. A top coat is then applied to the foil transfer and a surrounding portion of the intermediate stage leather segment after the foil transfer is secured to complete the leather product. A system and method of making the leather product is also disclosed.

Abstract: A leather product such as a leather covering for a vehicular part includes a segment of leather with a base coat applied to a hide side and a color coat applied to the base coat to create an intermediate stage leather segment. A foil transfer is embossed into and secured with an adhesive to the intermediate stage leather segment. A top coat is then applied to the foil transfer and a surrounding portion of the intermediate stage leather segment after the foil transfer is secured to complete the leather product. A system and method of making the leather product is also disclosed.

Abstract: A leather product such as a leather covering for a vehicular part includes a segment of leather with a base coat applied to a hide side and a color coat applied to the base coat to create an intermediate stage leather segment. A foil transfer is embossed into and secured with an adhesive to the intermediate stage leather segment. A top coat is then applied to the foil transfer and a surrounding portion of the intermediate stage leather segment after the foil transfer is secured to complete the leather product. A system and method of making the leather product is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and system for finish curing a leather-based substrate includes applying a base coat onto a surface of a substrate to form a coated substrate and passing the coated substrate through a first heating zone to heat the base coat. The method also includes passing the coated substrate through a second heating zone that emits infrared electromagnetic waves at a frequency corresponding to strong absorption by water to remove a desired amount of moisture from the base coat, and passing the coated substrate through a third heating zone to completely cure the base coat on the coated substrate.

Abstract: A method and system for softening a high-density leather finished roll good and other stiff high density roll goods may include adjusting a first horizontal distance between a first impact grid and a first tunnel opening and adjusting a second horizontal distance between a second impact grid and a second tunnel opening based on the stiffness of the roll good. The method also may include introducing the roll good in a first direction through the air tunnel until the roll good hits the second impact grid, and introducing the roll good in an opposite direction through the air tunnel until the roll good hits the first impact grid. The method may further include passing the roll good through a cooling chamber.

Abstract: Auxiliary bearing for determining radial and axial play of a turbine shaft, the auxiliary bearing having a bridge-shaped carrying yoke mounted on bearing brackets axially adjacent operating bearing shells, swingable and turnable adjusting bolts suspending a semicircular support yoke from the bridge-shaped carrying yoke, and adjusting bolts horizontally screwable into the semicircular support yoke so as to deflect the latter laterally, includes a lining of antifriction metal disposed on the inner periphery of the semicircular support yoke for slideably supporting the turbine shaft, the lining of antifriction metal being formed with three oil pockets serially disposed in peripheral direction thereof, and including a separate pressure oil feed line connection to each of the three oil pockets.