CHAPTER XIII.

PREPARATION OF CEMENTS, PASTES, AND MUCILAGES.

Oil cements; Putty and its preparation 224

French putty; Soft putty; Litharge cement; Red lead cement; Cement for wash basins 225

Zinc-white cement; Mastic cement, mastic or _pierres de mastic_ 226

French mastic; Paget’s mastic; Water-proof cement; Serbat’s mastic 227

Stephen’s oil cement; Oil cement for glass; Oil cement free from lead for steam pipes; Oil cements for steam pipes; Oil cement for marble 228

Oil cement for porcelain; Diamond cement; Hager’s diamond cement; Resinous cements; Resinous cement for amber; Cement for turners 229

Cement for ivory and bone; Cement for white enameled clock faces; Cements for glass; Cement for glass upon glass; Cement for glass upon metal; Cement for metal letters upon glass; Cement for wood 230

Cement for knife handles; Cement for petroleum lamps; Cement for porcelain; Cement for porcelain which is to be heated; Cement to withstand the action of petroleum; Cement for mica 231

Cement for horn, whalebone and tortoise shell; Cement for terra cotta articles; Mastic cement for glass; Stick mastic cement; Sulphur cement for porcelain 232

Insoluble cement for wooden vessels; Rubber cements; Cements for glass; Soft rubber cement 233

Hard rubber cement; Elastic cement; Marine glue 234

Jeffrey’s marine glue; Marine glue for damp walls; Gutta-percha cements; Cement for leather 235

Cement for hard rubber combs; Elastic gutta-percha cement; Cement for horses’ hoofs; Cement for crockery 236

Cement for leather; Caseine cements; Preparation of pure caseine 237

Preparation of ordinary technical caseine; John A. Just’s method for obtaining a purer technical caseine 238

Caseine cement which can be kept for a long time; Cement for glass; Cement for metals; Cement for porcelain; Cement for meerschaum; Cement for wood, etc. 239

Cement for porcelain; Water-glass and water-glass cements; Water-glass and its properties; Cement for cracked bottles 240

Cement for glass and porcelain; Cement for hydraulic works; Cement for uniting metals; Cement for tightening joints of pipes exposed to a red heat 241

Cement for marble and alabaster; Glycerine and glycerine cements; Properties of commercial glycerine; Glycerine and litharge cement 242

Lime cements; Properties of lime and chalk; Cement for glass; Cement for joiners; Cement for cracked clay crucibles and porcelain 243

Lime and glue cement; Gypsum cements; Preparation of plaster of Paris; Cement for plaster of Paris statues 244

Cement for glass and porcelain; Cement for iron and stone; Cements for porcelain; Universal plaster of Paris cement; Iron cements; Heat-resisting cement; Water and steam-proof cement; Cement for iron 245

Fire-proof cement for iron pipes; Cements resisting high temperatures; Cement for filling in defects in castings; Cement for cracked stove-plates, etc.; Cement for iron water-tanks; Cement for cracked iron pots 246

Black cement for stoves; Cements for chemical apparatus; Requirements of such cements; Cement for small apparatus to be used for the development of fluoric acid 247

Linseed oil and clay cement; Linseed oil and manganese cement; Cements resisting very high temperatures; Cement resisting acids; Rubber cement for chemical apparatus 248

Scheibler’s cement for chemical apparatus; Cements for special purposes; Cement for attaching metal letters to glass, marble, wood, etc.; Cement for joints of iron pipes 249

Steam boiler cement; Cement for rubber; Cement for tires; Cement for steam pipes, etc. 250

Cement for marble; Cement for attaching wood, glass, etc., to metal; Brushmaker’s cement; Cement for electrical apparatus 251

Jeweler’s cement; American cement for jewelers; Cement for celluloid; Stratena; Cement for cloth; How to use cements 252

Importance of bringing the cement into intimate contact with the surface to be united 253

Obstacles to the junction of any two surfaces; Importance of using as little cement as possible 254

Cleansing surfaces to be joined from grease and dirt; Paste and mucilages; Starch paste 255

Rules for preparing paste; Flour paste 256

Means to prevent the spoiling of paste 257

Shoemakers’ paste 258

Gum arabic and its properties; Dextrine and its use in place of gum arabic; Properties of commercial dextrine 259

Preparation of dextrine; Blumenthal’s method 260

Heuzé’s method; Tragacanth, or gum tragacanth; Pastes and mucilages for special purposes; Starch paste; Flour paste 261

Strong adhesive paste; Paste that will not sour; Venetian paste 262

Label paste; Elastic or pliable paste; Mucilage for labels; Mucilage 263

Mucilage for postage stamps; Caseine mucilage; Tragacanth mucilage; Adhesive paste; Fluid pastes 264

Sugar and lime paste; Liquid sugar and lime paste; Pastes for paper and fine fancy articles; Albumen paste 265

Glycerine paste; Paste for fixing labels on machines; Paste for mounting maps; Paste for fastening paper on tin-foil; Paste for paper bags; Caseine mucilage for photographer’s use; Paste for scrap books 266

Paste for skins; Strong mucilage capable of fastening wood on china and glass; Dextrine mucilage; Paste for joining leather to pasteboard 267

Paste for attaching labels to polished nickel; Mucilage for attaching labels to tin; Mucilage for office use; Glycerine paste for office use; Clean and durable paste 268

Banknote or mouth glue; Paste for cardboard; Paste for attaching cloth or leather to table tops; Caseine mucilage; Very adhesive paste which may be used for wood and parchment 269

Paste for pads; Paste for fastening paper on tin-foil; Paste for attaching labels to glass, porcelain and metal; Preparation of arabol-gum; Preparation of an adhesive substance from desaccharized beet-root slices 270

Index 273

GLUE, GELATINE, CEMENTS, PASTES.