A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER VII.—METAL WORKERS (NOT ELECTRO PLATE OR PRECIOUS METALS)

Sub-order 8.—Other Workers

263.—Tinners

binding band solderer: see coil tinner.
coater (tinplate): see tinman.
coil tinner ; binding band solderer: covers with a coating of tin, using soldering iron, band of wire wound round armature coils.
copper tinner: a tinner q.v. who coats with tin, copper kettles, pans, and other cooking utensils, by dipping process; carefully cleans surface to be tinned; smears with or dips in flux and then in pot of molten tin; if article is to be tinned only inside, whirls molten tin rapidly round to cover interior of pan, and pours out excess tin.
grease tinner: a tinner q.v. who coats with tin pans used for catching grease in cooking stoves.
tinman, tinner, tinplater (tinplate manufacture) ; coater (tinplate): stands in front of pots on tinning machine and feeds sheets one at a time, downwards, through flux and covering layer of palm oil into molten tin; is responsible for putting tinning materials in pots of machine, and for smooth running of plant.
tinner (hollow-ware goods): coats hollow-ware goods with pure tin, tin and lead mixture, or pure lead; prepares articles by passing them through bath of flux (sometimes previously cleaning them with acid), dips them in vats of molten tin, etc., and then in bath of palm oil; in coating fishhooks, suspends hooks in an electrolytic bath, to avoid too thick a deposit of tin on the hooks; cf. tinner (262).
tinning machine driver, wire tinner: attends tinning bath and machine which tins wire for use in electric cable making; places coils or drums of wire on swift or spindle at side of machine, guides end of wire through tinning bath and fastens to rewinding drum or spindle; adds metal to tinning bath as required and regulates temperature of molten metal by gas valves.

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.