A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.
ORDER V.—MAKERS OF BRICKS, POTTERY AND GLASS
Sub-order 2.—Makers of Glass and Glassware
123.—Gatherers
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- ball blower
- makes foundation for tube drawing; gathers on end of blowing iron, quantity of "metal," i.e. , molten glass, shapes hall of metal by working it backwards and forwards on a marver, a steel plate or stone slab; creates space in centre of foundation by blowing gently into blowing iron, and hands-on iron and foundation to coverer (124) (q.v.).
- gatherer, glass gatherer
- takes up molten glass from furnace on heated end of iron blow-tube; rolls it on a marver, or on a block, to remove excrescences; and hands it, on the tube, to blower (124) (q.v.); cf. machine bottle gatherer (125).
- ladler
- ladles molten glass, metal, into frames or trays used in making plate glass.
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From:
A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain. 