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Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that separates whole nut meats from those that are chipped, broken, or wormy. Respnsibilities include: * Turns dials to specified settings to separate nut meats. * Connects calibrator to dials to verify settings. * Starts machine and observes rejected nut meats to ascertain whether machine is functioning efficiently. * Examines dial settings of machine periodically, using calibrator, and adjusts dials when necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that separates whole nut meats from those that are chipped, broken, or wormy. Respnsibilities include: * Turns dials to specified settings to separate nut meats. * Connects calibrator to dials to verify settings. * Starts machine and observes rejected nut meats to ascertain whether machine is functioning efficiently. * Examines dial settings of machine periodically, using calibrator, and adjusts dials when necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic press that extracts oil from cloth-covered cakes of oilseed meat. Respnsibilities include: * Lifts cakes from cake-forming tray, using metal pan (blade), shoves cakes into compartments of press, and withdraws empty pan. * Turns handwheel to raise hydraulic ram that presses cakes to extract oil from cake.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends blanching machine that removes skins from shelled peanuts. Respnsibilities include: * Starts machine and pours peanuts into machine hopper. * Inspects peanuts as they fall from machine onto moving belt and picks out foreign matter, unblanched peanuts, and peanuts that fail to meet production specifications. * May sack blanched peanuts. * May tend sorting machine that electronically locates and removes unblanched peanuts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends blanching machine that removes skins from shelled peanuts. Respnsibilities include: * Starts machine and pours peanuts into machine hopper. * Inspects peanuts as they fall from machine onto moving belt and picks out foreign matter, unblanched peanuts, and peanuts that fail to meet production specifications. * May sack blanched peanuts. * May tend sorting machine that electronically locates and removes unblanched peanuts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes and peels potatoes. Respnsibilities include: * Loads potatoes into hopper of machine by hand or by use of hoist. * Starts machine and equipment that cuts oversized potatoes in half and conveys potatoes through washing and peeling units. * Observes operation of machine to prevent jamming and ensure that potato skins are removed. * In batch-type machine, adjusts timing device to control stay of potatoes in pot containing abrasive disk. * In continuous-type machine, pushes lever to regulate flow of potatoes over abrasive rollers to control amount of skin removed. * Inspects peeled potatoes, passing on conveyor belt, and discards rotten potatoes. * Cuts up oversized potatoes and removes unsuitable parts, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grain separating, washing, and scouring machines that remove foreign matter, such as dirt, smut, and rust, from grain preparatory to milling. Respnsibilities include: * Adjusts slides in bin spouts and starts elevators to route grain from storage bins to machines. * Turns valves to regulate water temperature and water level in washer, to adjust air suction to remove dust from separators, and to regulate flow of air through drier. * Turns wingnuts to adjust angle of separator screens, according to grain flow and amount of refuse. * Hooks bag under end of screen to catch refuse. * Starts machines to process grain and observes flow entering machines to prevent overloading. * Examines processed grain to verify cleanliness. * Pounds chutes with mallet to dislodge clogged grain. * May tend separating equipment only and be designated Separator Tender I.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends presses and auxiliary equipment that extract water from beet pulp, and mix pulp with molasses to produce animal fodder. Respnsibilities include: * Starts conveyors, elevator, and presses. * Places gates on conveyor belts to divert pulp into automatic presses. * Opens valve on molasses tank to mix molasses and pulp. * Adjusts presses, valves, and flow of pulp to obtain pulp and molasses mixture with specified moisture content. * Takes samples of pulp before pressing, and of pulp and molasses mixture for laboratory analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that extracts juice, and separates seeds and pulp from fresh and precooked fruits, berries, and tomatoes. Respnsibilities include: * Places containers under discharge outlets of pulping machine to receive juice, seeds, and pulp. * Starts equipment to pump or convey material through machines or dumps fruit, berries, or vegetables in machine hopper. * Observes passage of juice flowing from discharge outlet to ensure that juice is free of pulp and seeds. * Removes filled containers from discharge outlets. * Replaces damaged or clogged filter screen, using handtools. * May adjust paddles in machine, using wrench. * May add measured amounts of salt to tomato juice. * May heat berries in open kettle prior to processing in pulping machine. * May clean and sterilize machine, using steam hose. * May be designated according to product pulped as Tomato-Pulper Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that extracts juice, and separates seeds and pulp from fresh and precooked fruits, berries, and tomatoes. Respnsibilities include: * Places containers under discharge outlets of pulping machine to receive juice, seeds, and pulp. * Starts equipment to pump or convey material through machines or dumps fruit, berries, or vegetables in machine hopper. * Observes passage of juice flowing from discharge outlet to ensure that juice is free of pulp and seeds. * Removes filled containers from discharge outlets. * Replaces damaged or clogged filter screen, using handtools. * May adjust paddles in machine, using wrench. * May add measured amounts of salt to tomato juice. * May heat berries in open kettle prior to processing in pulping machine. * May clean and sterilize machine, using steam hose. * May be designated according to product pulped as Tomato-Pulper Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
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