- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machines that dry and polish clothespins. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads drum of machine with clothespins and wax blocks.
* Admits steam into drum and starts its rotation.
* Stops machine after specified tumbling time.
* Unloads clothespins when dry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends kiln that conditions wood used for firearms stocks and shaped wooden articles. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines woodstock ends to determine whether tar or wax coating meets specifications.
* Dips stock blank ends into vats of tar or wax to prevent splitting during drying.
* Places stock in oven and turns gas valves to regulate temperature to specified heat.
* Observes wood blanks to determine whether drying is required.
* Removes wood blanks to storage sheds.
* Records storage time and amounts processed, coated, scraped, and rejected.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends conveyor-type drier that dries freshly cut veneer sheets to prevent mildewing and discoloration. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate temperature of drying oven according to thickness and moisture content of veneer.
* Presses buttons or turns lever or handwheel to regulate speed of conveyor belt or feed rollers.
* Removes veneer sheets from conveyor belt or rollers as they emerge from drying oven and stacks them on handtruck.
* May measure moisture content of discharged veneer sheets, using moisture meter, to ensure specified drying.
* May discard sheets with defects, such as splits, knotholes, or decayed sections.
* May return incompletely dried veneer to be fed again into drier.
* May feed machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends conveyor-type drier that dries freshly cut veneer sheets to prevent mildewing and discoloration. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate temperature of drying oven according to thickness and moisture content of veneer.
* Presses buttons or turns lever or handwheel to regulate speed of conveyor belt or feed rollers.
* Removes veneer sheets from conveyor belt or rollers as they emerge from drying oven and stacks them on handtruck.
* May measure moisture content of discharged veneer sheets, using moisture meter, to ensure specified drying.
* May discard sheets with defects, such as splits, knotholes, or decayed sections.
* May return incompletely dried veneer to be fed again into drier.
* May feed machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends platen drier that redries veneer to ensure uniform moisture content before gluing into plywood or furniture parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit steam to platens and adjusts pressure control so that specified steam pressure will be supplied to heat platens.
* Inserts veneer between platens and turns handwheel or pulls lever to close platens.
* Opens platens and removes dried veneer sheets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends platen drier that redries veneer to ensure uniform moisture content before gluing into plywood or furniture parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit steam to platens and adjusts pressure control so that specified steam pressure will be supplied to heat platens.
* Inserts veneer between platens and turns handwheel or pulls lever to close platens.
* Opens platens and removes dried veneer sheets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds freshly cut veneer sheets into drier that dries veneer. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes handtruck of veneer into position at loading end of drier.
* Lifts sheets from top of stack and slides them onto conveyor that conveys sheets into and through drier, using care not to damage edges.
* May press pedal to activate elevator platform that raises veneer sheets to working level as stack is reduced.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears smoking pipes from smoking machine used to break-in (char) new pipe bowls. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes pipe bowls from suction tubes of pipe smoking machine.
* Examines pipes to determine tobacco has been burned and places aside pipes containing unburned tobacco.
* Empties ashes into water bucket and inspects interior of charred bowls to verify conformance to company standards.
* Cleans smoker tubes, using wire pipe cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears smoking pipes from smoking machine used to break-in (char) new pipe bowls. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes pipe bowls from suction tubes of pipe smoking machine.
* Examines pipes to determine tobacco has been burned and places aside pipes containing unburned tobacco.
* Empties ashes into water bucket and inspects interior of charred bowls to verify conformance to company standards.
* Cleans smoker tubes, using wire pipe cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hammers shaped steel bands into ends of timbers and railroad ties to prevent checking (splitting) while seasoning.
* May clamp, drill hole, and insert bolt or metal dowel through split timbers or ties to hold split parts together.
* May be designated according to shape of band as beegle-iron worker; c-iron worker; s-iron worker.
Industry:Professional careers
