Cleaner
A moulder's tool, and frequently styled a "lifter." It is an important implement, made in different lengths and widths, principally from steel. It consists of a long flat blade, to slick or smooth the sides of confined webs; one end, being forged to a toe at right-angles with the blade, serves to lift out loose sand from such webs, and also to smooth the bottom. See SLICKER.
The workman who removes sand and cores from castings is usually styled a cleaner. See CHIPPER; SAND-BLAST.