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

ORDER XII.—TEXTILE WORKERS

Sub-order 1.—Textile Workers

378.—Felt Formers, Batters, and Hardeners (not Hats)

batter, bat engine attendant, felt batter: attends bat machine, which takes sliver, fibre in form of ropes or ribbons, from scribbling machine, and places one layer on another until required thickness has been obtained; material is then wound on rollers and transferred to hardening machine.
felt former, felt maker, felt worker: general terms for any worker engaged in felt manufacture, including the workers under this code No. 378, also miller (384).
flat hardener tenter ; fell hardener, hardener: places laps, i.e. soft loose masses of carded wool or hair, on flat hardener machine, which hardens and felts them by steaming.
hair felt maker, hair felt sheet maker: a hardener q.v. using hair only for felting.
hardener, felt hardener: (i) see flat hardener tenter;; (ii) see roller hardener tenter.
roller hardener tenter ; felt hardener, hardener: places laps, i.e. loose masses of wool or hair, in automatic feed of roller hardening machine, which hardens and felts them, by steaming, and then pressing between oscillating rollers. .

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.