- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who removes fired ware, such as china or pottery, from kiln and prepares kiln for reuse. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens kiln door or removes brick and mortar that seals kiln during firing.
* Picks up fired ware from tunnel-kiln car, conveyor slabs, or from saggers.
* Presses ware against abrasive grinding wheel to remove rough spots or marks.
* Segregates ware according to pattern or design.
* Cleans interior of kiln.
* May be designated according to kiln drawn as bisque-kiln drawer; glost-kiln drawer; tunnel-kiln drawer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls periodic, field, or retort kilns to bake clay products, such as brick, sewer pipe, clay refractories, and roofing tile. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens fuel valves and lights gas or oil fire, using oil-soaked stick.
* Seals kiln door with bricks and daubs brick with clay to prevent loss of heat, using trowel.
* Observes thermometer and action of pyrometric cones through peepholes, or removes object from kiln with tongs and examines object to determine rate of burning.
* Turns gas or oil valves and dampers to adjust rate of burning or baking of objects.
* Closes fuel valves and fireboxes, opens kiln-crown holes, and installs fans to cool objects.
* May be designated according to type of kiln operated as dry-kiln burner; field-kiln burner; retort-kiln burner; or according to product burned as brick-kiln burner; roofing-tile burner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends autoclave to cure asbestos-cement pipe. Respnsibilities include:
* Transports specified supplies and empty trays (forms) to forming department, and trays loaded with pipe to curing area, using industrial truck.
* Loads autoclave with trays of pipe, using industrial truck.
* Closes autoclave door and inserts safety pin to secure door.
* Places chart on recording instrument and sets indicator for starting time and curing limits.
* Opens steam value to build up specified pressure in autoclave.
* Closes valves, opens exhaust vents and starts fans to reduce steam pressure to specified level and opens autoclave door.
* Removes cured pipe from autoclave, using industrial truck.
* Maintains record of production.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who builds temporary casing doors and seals crown openings in kilns, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Stacks brick in doorway of kiln.
* Mixes dirt and water to form mud, and spreads mud over brick to seal opening, using trowel.
* Climbs on top of kiln and places covers or crown openings over kiln and seals them with mud.
* Positions and screws burners in openings.
* Pulls down doors with hook after firing of kiln and removes crown covers to control cooling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who builds temporary casing doors and seals crown openings in kilns, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Stacks brick in doorway of kiln.
* Mixes dirt and water to form mud, and spreads mud over brick to seal opening, using trowel.
* Climbs on top of kiln and places covers or crown openings over kiln and seals them with mud.
* Positions and screws burners in openings.
* Pulls down doors with hook after firing of kiln and removes crown covers to control cooling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stacks products, such as blocks, bricks, sewer pipe, and roofing tile in specified patterns on tunnel kiln cars or in periodic kilns for burning. Respnsibilities include:
* Spaces and levels setting rings on kiln car or in kiln to facilitate circulation of air about products during burning.
* Spreads sand on floor or setting rings to prevent cohesion of products during burning.
* Lifts and positions products on setting rings, using air-hoist.
* Examines products for cracks and measures them for straightness, using straightedge.
* Discards defective products.
* May direct setter helper.
* May draw products from kiln.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends gas or electric kiln to affix paint on glass. Respnsibilities include:
* Ignites and regulates gas burners to heat kiln to prescribed temperature, or regulates thermostat to control temperature of electric kiln.
* Spreads plaster of paris on metal trays with trowel, roller, or palette knife to form smooth, level bed for glass.
* Sets sections of glass on trays and positions trays in kilns, using tongs.
* Observes glass through peepholes in kilns to detect signs of warping, bubbling, cracking, or blistering.
* Removes trays after specified period of time, and stacks trays for gradual cooling and annealing in lehr.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends clay roasting kilns and auxiliary equipment in which clay, used as filter in treating oil, is cleaned and treated for reuse.
* Adjusts temperature of rotary kilns in which clay is roasted, by regulating valves controlling gas or oil and air supply.
* Starts, stops, and regulates speed of conveyors and elevators by which used clay is charged into kilns from storage bins.
* Fires oil-burning or gas-burning steam heater to supply steam for treating clay before it is dumped from filters.
* Checks weight per cubic foot of clay to determine whether it conforms to requirements, using spring balance.
* Cleans lumps of fused clay from screens at outlet of kilns.
* Oils and greases equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that heats and fire polishes glassware, such as tubes, kitchen utensils, and trays to remove defects, such as rough surfaces, air bubbles, and chips, or to seal tubes. Respnsibilities include:
* Places tubes on spindles or other glassware on rotating table which carries them into contact with gas flame to melt or fuse glass.
* Turn valves to regulate polishing flame.
* Removes articles after heating with tongs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists lime-kiln operator to control kiln used in converting limestone into lime. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens and closes gates on kiln to adjust draft as directed.
* Observes flow of lime from kiln and removes lumps blocking discharge end of kiln, using bar.
* Shovels spilled material onto conveyor.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
