Topic: Glass Technologist? Teeming

[Frank]

Teem, Teeming...

context:

... but there was a set of tongs on a monorail for lifting the full pots from the furnaces and teeming. They can teem 4 to 6 pots per hour.

What does it mean, please?

(Source: German Glass Industry (1945) courtesy The Glass Study)

[Anne]

Frank, I don't know if this is the correct meaning in respect of glassmaking, but Chambers Dictionary gives the following definition as one meaning of teem:

"teem2 verb (teemed, teeming) - to pour out.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c: from Norse toema to empty."

Source: http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=teem&title=21st

[Frank]

Sounds good, thanks Anne.

[Lustrousstone]

As in teeming with rain, which it's not here ATM

[Frank]

But a further use casts doubt on the assumption based on its other usage...

...These furnaces had low crowns and they took a larger pot than those used for teeming.

same source

[David E]

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6110300.html

Tool for glass molding operations and method of manufacture thereof

Mentions teeming twice two-thirds down, just before table 3 and twice between tables 4 & 5. Appears to indicate an alternative term to 'pouring' or 'moulding'?

[Lustrousstone]

I found this on a ggogle search
"Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms - Google Books Result
by American Geological Institute - 1997 - 646 pages
(DOT, 1949) (c) The person who teems or casts the pot of glass. See also: casting. (ASTM, 1994) teeming (a) Shaping glass by pouring it into or on molds,"

There was also reference to steel teeming ladles

Added
And this one www.maden.hacettepe.edu.tr/dmmrt/dmmrt1212.html

[David E]

There was also reference to steel teeming ladles

I read that first as "steaming ladies"

[Frank]

We seem to be getting to reasonably sounding guesses... yet the term is not in use in Hodkin & Cousen, 1925, even though they also discuss some of the same processes at length some 20 years earlier.

[David E]

Could it have gone out of fashion in the UK, but was a term still being used in Germany?