noun
definition
A thin sheet of steel coated with tin to prevent rusting; used to make cans etc.
verb
definition
To coat (something, especially steel sheet) with tin, either by dipping or electroplating.
Examples of tinplate in a Sentence
Besides its copper works the town at present possesses extensive tinplate, steel and galvanized sheet works as well as iron and brass foundries, steam-engine factories, brick and tile works, engineering works, flannel factories and chemical works.
There are tinplate and engineering works within the borough.
There are also iron, steel and tinplate works both at Cwmavon and at Port Talbot, which, when it consisted only of docks, was appropriately known as Aberavon Port.
Worsted spinning and dyeing are also carried on, and there are iron foundries, tinplate works, breweries, malthouses, &c. The parliamentary borough returns one member.
In miscellaneous metal trades, embracing tinplate goods, wire workers, makers of stoves, grates, ranges and fire-arms, makers of bolts, nuts, rivets, screws and staples, and those occupied in several subsidiary trades, the number of operatives in 1901 amounted to 13,209.
In 1909, 2041 ships of 2,710,691 tons (1,153,564 being British) entered at Vigo; the imports in that year, including tin and tinplate, coal, machinery, cement, sulphate of copper and foodstuffs, were valued at £481,752; the exports, including sardines, mineral waters and eggs, were valued at 554,824.
Its important collieries and lead mines; fire-brick, tile, earthenware, mineral oil, tinplate and nail manufactures, tanneries, breweries and malt-houses, have made Mold the business centre of the county.
These have not been worked since about 1875, and the only metal industries remaining in the town are an iron foundry or two and a small tinplate works at Gadlys (established in 1868).
In 1927 it started producing clockwork lithographed tinplate O gage trains there as well.
Within the next twenty years, German manufacturers began mass-producing toy trains made from tinplate, which is a tin coated thin sheet of steel.
Early German tinplate toy train manufacturers produced simple trains and ones that were self propelled, known as clockwork trains.
Brown Company made the first tinplate clockwork train in the United States.
In 1891, the Marklin Company made toy train history with the introduction of train tracks made of tinplate in sections that were standardized.