ORDER V.—MAKERS OF BRICKS, POTTERY AND GLASS

Sub-order 2.—Makers of Glass and Glassware

122.—Teazers and Founders

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founder ; melter, metaler

(i) supervises filling of pot with "batch" and "cullet"; adds successive relays of material, as mixture shrinks, until pot is filled with molten "metal"; draws small portion of "metal" on iron rod, to ascertain if it is melted clear, and free from "seeds" and bubbles of gas;

(ii) (bottle factories) stoker; as above; also stokes furnaces.

furnace keeper, furnaceman

(i) see stoker;

(ii) where furnaces oil heated, watches burners and turns taps on or off to regulate oil flow.

kiln firer

shovels coal or coke into annealing kiln furnaces; sees that kilns are used in correct rotation, allowing each to cool-off in turn; reports any damage to kiln.

melter

see founder ; cf. melter (139).

metaler

see founder.

optical glass maker

makes glass suitable for optical instruments; slowly adds specially mixed ingredients to covered crucible in furnace heating up glass formed; stirs it to render homogeneous and free from bubbles; allows to cool slowly in furnace; when glass is cold, breaks crucible and examines block or blocks of glass for flaws.

sitter-up

watches, during night, pots containing molten glass, and regulates temperature by stoking, cf. stoker, or by adding fresh glass.

skimmer, pot skimmer

skims all impurities, bubbles, etc., from surface of molten "metal" ready for gatherer (123); only employed in large firms; elsewhere done by blower (124) or, less frequently, by stoker (q.v.).

stoker

(i) (glass making) furnace man, furnace keeper; shovels coal or coke into furnace; rakes-out clinker to improve draught; sometimes also acts as skimmer (q.v.), or, batch mixer (138) (q.v.);

(ii) (bottle making) see founder;

(iii) in small glass works often acts as lehrman (138) (q.v.); places articles on pans and into small lehr or annealing oven; stokes annealing oven fire.

teazer

as for stoker, except that, when in charge of large furnaces, sometimes regulates heat by means of gauges.

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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.