Definition or description of Tinplate job

Can anyone please point me towards an accurate definition or
description of the work a "Branner" did in the old style "pack"
tinworks?

Hugh Watkins...

sounds like a burnisher WRONG guess see below

I have a rough idea - basically they were girls who cleaned the
tinplate after it had been tinned using something like a piece
sheepskin or a sheepskin mitt.

Similiarly would like an annucrate description/definition of the work
carried out by a "duster2 in the same industry,

Hugh Watkins...

sounds like a typo
5000 + hits for tinplate in 1881

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19 1881 England Census
115 1881 Wales Census

Name: John Applebee
Age: 14
Estimated birth year: abt 1867
Relation: Grandson
Father's name: William
Gender: Male
Where born: Treforest, Glamorgan, Wales

Civil parish: Llantwit Vairdre
County/Island: Glamorgan
Country: Wales

Street address: 8 Castle Court
Education: View image
Employment status: View image
Occupation: Branner Tin Works >> ((Charw)) [typo] crossed out charwoman
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Registration district: Pontypridd

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63 1881 England Census
279 1881 Wales Census

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so trying later

(Subscriber: Birmingham City Council with my library ticket number
from

also Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985 )

Branner
1. An operative who cleans tinned plates with bran.
1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 94 White Branner. 1921 Dict. Occup.
Terms (1927) §279 Branner, a tinman's helper attending branning
machine,..sometimes specifically designated according to whether black
or white plates are being cleaned, e.g., black branner, white branner.

2. A machine for removing the oil from tinned plates by means of
bran and slaked lime.
1902 Sci. Amer. 1 Nov. 290/2 As the plates leave the tin pot, they have
upon them a thin coating of oil which has to be removed... They are put
into a branner which is located conveniently at the side of the tinning
machine.

Duster
1 b
A machine for removing dust (by rubbing, etc.) in various mechanical
processes.

2. a.

3. A person who dusts, or wipes off dust.
1850 HASTINGS Life of J. Wilson II. ii. 255 A cobweb here and a little
dust there which have escaped the vigilance of the duster. 1888 Pall
Mall G. 17 Sept. 6/2 Employed as an assistant ‘duster’ for the stalls at
the Italian Exhibition.

Hugh W

Peter...

Hugh,

Many thanks for your prompt (and full) reply. I had an idea what a
branner did (one of mty great grandfathers sisters is described as one
in the 1881 census for Penclawdd near Swansea.
Not too sure about the term "duster" - I suspect that the term may
have been a local one and isn't defined as one found in the tinplate
industry.

Definition or description of Tinplate job - Branner