Topic: Glass Technologist? Teeming

[Frank]

No, because these reports were written by British Intelligence looking for useful ideas to liberate after hostilities stopped. The team were all Brits, going by their name. There are also dotted through it references to Chance type machines and the way  American technology is used in comparisons implies no Americans were on the touring team... No doubt the Americans had a similar group touring the factories. I am sure Germany at that time was teeming with 'foreigners' looking for ideas to take home.

[Lustrousstone]

What I should have said re the steaming ladies was steel-teeming ladles, i.e., ladles for teeming steel, I think they were ceramic. And isn't teeming just one of the silliest looking words you've seen?

[Sklounion]

International Committee on Glass, "Dictionary of Glass-making" English-German Polish edition.(1970s publication so term was then current).
p 76 "Teem" or "to cast the pot" = "den Hafen ausgeissen" or "den Hafen aus-schuetten" (u should have an umlaut.
Term number 1204.
Regards,
Marcus

[Lustrousstone]

re Hodkin & Cousen, were they Americans? Their book was published in the US. If so teeming ref. glass may be an English usage.

Merriam-Websters gives "teem: Function:transitive verb. Etymology:Middle English temen, from Old Norse toema; akin to Old English tom empty. Date:14th century. : EMPTY, POUR  *teem molten metal  into a mold>

[Anne]

That seems to be the same meaning as the one I found in Chambers, Christine, but your definition has more detail.

[Frank]

Hodkin & Cousen were English and thei text-book on glass technology is one of 'The' books. Obviously later revisions and printings in US... have to get a newer edition. As in this particular case they are talking about sheet glass production, mould does not fit, but the term could refer to emptying the pot into the trough. That was my original assumption but as it was an assumption I thought it best to get an answer from someone who has worked in the industry.

In the meantime Marcus's cast the pot is a real teaser! As casting the pot is the process of making the pot itself .

[Adam]

I've been offline for a few days with HDD problems and a note from Adam A. has brought me back here.  Sorry, I never heard the term teeming in connection with glass in my little corner of the industry, except when the rain was coming through the roof!

Using the word as in "pouring", a wild guess is that it might have been used in early making of ground and polished plate glass, where a large pot was poured on to some form of iron plate before rolling.  That would, in the UK, be Pilkingtons and they used words which no one else did.

Frank, I'm impressed that you have Hodkin & Cousen.  When I was a student that was the only decent text book in English but it was long out of print even then and was unobtainable!  I think we had one library copy.

Adam D.

[Frank]

Thanks Adam, the team that wrote the report were

Dr W. L. PATRICK, Leader,        )   Sheet and Plate Glass Manufacturers Association
Mr T. PARRY,                          )   
Mr A. R. GREEN,                        )   
Dr J. H. PARTRIDGE               B.E.A.M.A.
Mr M. PARKIN                        Sheffield Univ. Glass Tech. Dept.
Dr J. H. WAGGONER, Deputy leader  T.I.I.C., U.S.A.

No idea what T.I.I.C is.

[Lustrousstone]

I would guess TIIC = Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee

[Frank]

Probably correct, it seems they were set up in Höchst, Germany after the war by the US, no doubt all references now cleaned from the net to avoid being compromised by terrorists  :ac1: