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

127.—Glass Bevellers

bacher, offenbacher: see beveller.
beveller, glass beveller: bevels edge of mirror or plate glass by applying it to horizontally rotating iron wheel, which is kept supplied with sand and water; sets wheel to correct angle against gauge; switches-on power drive and holds glass against wheel until desired bevel obtained; smooths bevel on watered stone wheel; polishes it with powdered pumice on a wooden wheel; finishes it with rouge on a second wooden wheel.

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.