United States v. Richards

De Yries, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

These importations are of leather. They are variously described upon the invoices as “green butts leather,” used for making conveyor belts for wool-combing machines; “white butts,” used principally for aprons in textile machinery; “one-half butts, dry chrome picker leather,” chiefly sold for the manufacture of “picker bands” or “picker straps,” which operate on rims or levers to throw the shuttles on looms; “light black English picker butts,” of the same use as the picker bands; and “chrome bands,” which are narrow bands used for covering the…