- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends equipment that dries glutinous material, such as gelatin and glue, by either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Starts pumps to admit glutinous material through coolers to congeal it and through extruders to form noodles.
* Starts conveyor that moves noodles through series of drying compartments and turns on heaters and fans in compartments.
* Feels noodles for moisture content and regulates speed of equipment to ensure prescribed degree of dryness.
* Reads hydrometer to detect excessive moisture in drying compartments and turns on dehumidifier when necessary.
* (2) Transfers containers of pearl glue (granular forms) or moves frames or trays of sheets of glue or gelatin into drying compartment, using handtruck.
* Starts heaters and fans in heating compartment.
* Feels glutinous material for moisture content and regulates temperature in drying compartment when necessary.
* May tend equipment that spreads glutinous material into sheets for drying.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who unloads furnace in which ground bones are charred to produce boneblack (animal charcoal). Respnsibilities include:
* Opens and closes slide gate on bone-char furnace to fill bucket, mounted on dolly, with boneblack.
* Tilts bucket, assisted by other workers, to discharge contents onto cooling floor.
* Spreads boneblack over floor to cool, using rake.
* Shovels cooled boneblack onto conveyor for transfer to storage tanks.
* May sprinkle water onto material to facilitate cooling.
* May shovel ground bones into furnace or retort and dump charred product onto storage conveyor, using wheelbarrow, and be designated Retort Feeder, Ground Bone.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties in devulcanizing ground scrap rubber in steam heater. Respnsibilities include:
* Places pans beside mixer and loads pans with scrap rubber compound.
* Loads pans onto heater car by hand or hoist and pushes car into heater.
* Pulls heater cars out of heaters, using electric winch, and dumps or shovels devulcanized rubber into storage bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties in devulcanizing ground scrap rubber in steam heater. Respnsibilities include:
* Places pans beside mixer and loads pans with scrap rubber compound.
* Loads pans onto heater car by hand or hoist and pushes car into heater.
* Pulls heater cars out of heaters, using electric winch, and dumps or shovels devulcanized rubber into storage bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds and off bears machines that cure (vulcanize) tires, performing any of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes foreign matter from molds, using airhose, and sprays molds with dope solution to prevent tire from sticking.
* Lifts tires from saddle trucks to position them in molds.
* Pushes switch to inflate air bag to expand tire into closing mold.
* Lifts cured tires from mold at end of cycle and places tires on inflating unit to preserve tire shape during cooling period.
* Lifts tires from inflating unit at end of cooling cycle and loads them onto overhead conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps oleoresin into hopper of vats that melt resin preparatory to distillation into turpentine and rosin. Respnsibilities include:
* Rolls filled barrels of oleoresin onto scales to be weighed and rolls weighed barrels to storage area above vats.
* Upends barrels to dump resin into hopper of melting vats and pushes resin near steam jets of vats with stick to facilitate melting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds wet smokeless powder into equipment that dries powder and removes process solvents, such as acetone, ether, and alcohol. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes gauges to ascertain that temperature of water is within specified limits.
* Removes filled containers of dried powder from equipment, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties to remove moisture from devulcanized scrap rubber. Respnsibilities include:
* Cleans adhering scrap stock from drier and shaker screens, using handtools and airhose.
* Dumps bags of soapstone into hopper of mechanical shaker that sifts soapstone to prevent tacky surfaces of stock from adhering to shaker.
* Opens and closes discharge chutes of drier as instructed.
* May move dried stock to storage bins on handtrucks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions gelatin-drying frames on conveyor below gelatin-spreading machine to receive sheets of congealed gelatin discharged by machine.
* Slides loaded frame to elevator which stacks frames on truck.
* Pushes loaded truck to drying alley.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds crystalline or granular materials to conveyor system or feed hopper of rotary driers for drying. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts feed conveyor and shovels material onto moving belt, or adjusts controls of conveyor or feed hopper to regulate automatic feed according to instructions from equipment operator.
* May be designated according to materials fed as soda-drier feeder; sulfur feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
