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Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends conveyors and machines that blend various types and varieties of tobacco with domestic blends of tobacco. Respnsibilities include: * Starts conveyors to move continuous flow of tobacco under blenders (revolving spikes) to feeders that add specified types of tobacco, through ordering cylinder, overflow scales, and onto final blending belt. * Sets timers to control blending and feeding speeds and sets flow scales to control amount of tobacco fed, following specifications. * Forks specified tobacco into feeder at intervals, to obtain desired blend. * Observes flow of tobacco and operation of conveyors and machines to ensure efficient operation. * Records weight of each lot processed. * May be designated according to type of tobacco processed as Turkish-Line Attendant; Virginia-Line Attendant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to blend citrus fruit juices. Respnsibilities include: * Opens valves to permit juices to flow from extractor machines to holding tanks. * Fills blending tanks with required amounts of specified juices. * Turns on mechanical agitators in blending tanks to mix contents, and pumps mixture to deoiling and pasteurizing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes water and salt to prepare brine solution for use in preserving or separating food products. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valves to transfer solution from mixing machine to storage or separator tanks. * Tests specific gravity of solution with hydrometer and adds water or salt to bring solution to specified density. * May clean machinery and equipment, using steam hose, soap, and brushes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms cooked oilseed meats into cakes prior to oil extraction. Respnsibilities include: * Places cloth on cake-forming tray and presses lever or pedal to position charging buggy (hopper) over tray. * Releases oilseed onto tray and folds ends of cloth over oilseed meats. * Lowers head (metal block) into position over tray containing meats, and pulls lever to raise tray against head and form oilseed meats into cake.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes cloth wrapper from pressed cottonseed cake. Respnsibilities include: * Inserts end of cloth in which cottonseed cake is wrapped into slotted shaft of cake-stripping machine. * Presses pedal to revolve shaft that strips cloth from cake. * Places cake onto conveyor for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends candy-pulling machine or kneads candy by hand to impart specified flavor, color, and consistency to candy preparatory to spinning and cutting. Respnsibilities include: * Kneads and pulls batch of candy. * Adds specified amount of coloring and flavoring agents and continues kneading until coloring and flavoring are uniformly distributed and candy feels hardened enough to withstand machine pulling. * Hangs kneaded ribbon of candy on hooks of pulling machine and starts machine that pulls candy until it feels sufficiently hardened to retain specified consistency after spinning and cutting. * May be designated according to candy pulled as Taffy Puller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends candy-pulling machine or kneads candy by hand to impart specified flavor, color, and consistency to candy preparatory to spinning and cutting. Respnsibilities include: * Kneads and pulls batch of candy. * Adds specified amount of coloring and flavoring agents and continues kneading until coloring and flavoring are uniformly distributed and candy feels hardened enough to withstand machine pulling. * Hangs kneaded ribbon of candy on hooks of pulling machine and starts machine that pulls candy until it feels sufficiently hardened to retain specified consistency after spinning and cutting. * May be designated according to candy pulled as Taffy Puller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pours and spreads batches of cooked candy, such as fudge, caramel, or toffee, in pans or trays, or onto temperature-controlled slabs preparatory to cutting. Respnsibilities include: * Covers pan, tray, or slab with wax paper, dusts lined pan with powdered sugar, or greases with shortening to prevent sticking. * Spreads candy to specified thickness, using spatula or roller. * May cut candy into sections, using knife, for use by cutting-machine operator or set cutter frames into candy to slice it into individual sections. * May roughen surface with scraper to simulate homemade candy or sprinkle chopped nuts or fruit over candy to decorate it. * When spreading and cutting bar candy, may be designated Candy Maker, Bar.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vats, tanks, and pumps to mix, store, and transfer flavoring ingredients for use in making casing fluid. Respnsibilities include: * Pumps liquid from tank car to holding tanks and from holding tanks into vats for mixing. * Adds specified amount of powdered flavoring to liquid in vat and admits steam to vat to blend liquid and powdered ingredients. * Pumps mixture into aging tanks or to casing machine storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vats, tanks, and pumps to mix, store, and transfer flavoring ingredients for use in making casing fluid. Respnsibilities include: * Pumps liquid from tank car to holding tanks and from holding tanks into vats for mixing. * Adds specified amount of powdered flavoring to liquid in vat and admits steam to vat to blend liquid and powdered ingredients. * Pumps mixture into aging tanks or to casing machine storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
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