- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who visually inspects plate glass or glass products, including fiberglass, for defects, such as scratches, cracks, chips, holes, or bubbles. Respnsibilities include:
* Places workpiece on inspection stand or table for examination.
* Examines workpiece and marks defects.
* Rejects or classifies pieces for potential use, such as mirrors, glass pane, or furniture tops.
* Scrapes or washes foreign material from surface, using scraper, sponge, or brush.
* May clean or polish glass by washing with water or solvent and drying with cloth.
* May place straightedge over glass plates to determine if plates are warped.
* May attach identifying label to glassware.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines continuous sheet of built-up (bonded) mica for thin spots and foreign matter as mica emerges from oven onto inspection table. Respnsibilities include:
* Patches thin spots, using mica splittings and picks out foreign matter.
* Removes lengths of built-up mica from delivery end of machine and stacks mica on table.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects finished glassware for conformance to quality standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines glassware for defects, such as cracks, chips, reams (wavy distortions), discolorations, and blisters.
* Verifies weight and dimensions of glassware, such as height, circumference, thickness, and bottle throat openings, using templates, jigs, micrometers, and fixed gauges; or monitors automatic gauging equipment that measures glassware.
* Examines glass for annealing defects, using polariscope.
* Removes glassware to unjam automatic equipment.
* Throws rejects in cullet (waste glass) bin.
* May record production, number of rejects, and lehr temperatures.
* May pack acceptable glassware in cartons, close and seal cartons, and stencil information on carton, using brush and ink.
* May turn controls to synchronize automatic gauging equipment with conveyor speed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes cured asbestos disk brake pads from metal die plates, using knockout device. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions die plate on roller-type conveyor, removes lid from plate, and scrapes asbestos residue from lid, using putty knife.
* Pushes plate onto revolving tray and pulls lever to flip plate over to facilitate knockout of disk pads.
* Presses button to activate knockout device that forces metal rods into wells of die plate to punch pads from plate.
* Pushes empty plate along conveyor for subsequent re-use in heat-treating process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who places asbestos disk pads into wells of die plates prior to heat-treating process. Respnsibilities include:
* Sprays die plate to prevent pads from adhering to plate during heat-treating process, using spray gun and silicone solution.
* Positions individual pads into wells of die plates and pushes filled plate along roller-type conveyor to oven of hot press.
* Discards broken or defective pads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of tasks in establishment manufacturing concrete products. Respnsibilities include:
* Ties strip of cloth around bell of freshly cast concrete pipe to maintain circular shape of bell during curing.
* Arranges pipe in storage yard and stacks pipe for shipment.
* Places rubber gaskets on pipe.
* Stacks concrete blocks on pallets for removal by forklift truck.
* Feeds concrete blocks into block-breaking machine or abrasive saw to shape blocks.
* Immerses chimney flue liner sections in sealing compound.
* Brushes stone facings to remove loose material, applies acid solution, using brush to remove concrete around stones, and washes acid from stone, using water hose.
* Repairs defects in concrete surfaces, using mortar or grout and trowel, and smooths rough spots, using chisel and abrasive stone.
* Opens gates of railroad cars to allow materials to flow into storage chutes.
* Loads, unloads, and moves cement, sand, and gravel to work areas, using wheelbarrow, handtruck, or industrial truck.
* Cleans yard and plant, using shovel, broom, and water hose, and performs other duties as assigned.
* May be designated according to specific duties performed as acid cutter; bell tier; block breaker; block cuber; flue-lining dipper; rough patcher; yarder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts machines and equipment used to shape and dry hose, using knowledge of machine function and boarding II process. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit steam to drying cabinet or boarding forms.
* Changes toe boards or boarding forms according to size of hose being processed, using key and handtools.
* Observes gauges during boarding and turns valves to increase or decrease steam pressure and temperature of drying chamber or boarding forms, according to type of hose being boarded.
* Replaces worn or broken parts, such as conveyors, boarding forms, and electric motors, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stretches and sets circular knitted cloth (knit tubing) to uniform width. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns screws to adjust width of spreader according to specifications.
* Turns valves to admit steam into steam box that sets stretched cloth.
* Threads cloth over feed and guide rollers, around spreader, through steam box, and between pressure rolls, and wraps end of cloth around takeup roll or guides end through swing-folding attachment. Starts machine and observes flow of cloth to detect cloth defects, such as dirt, dye streaks, and holes.
* Cuts defects from cloth, using shears.
* Measures width of calendered cloth with hand rule.
* Cuts calendered cloth with shears or automatic cutter attached to machine and doffs rolls of cloth from machine.
* May lower top pressure roller to press cloth.
* May attach identification tag to end of cloth bolt.
* May tend calender fed from rolls, handtruck, or another machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates weft straightener that straightens and aligns skewed weft of broad woven fabrics after wet finishing. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes cloth passing under beam of light to detect skewed weft.
* Presses buttons to control movement of rollers that hold back leading selvage of skewed cloth and to allow lagging selvage to catch up.
* May tend finishing machines, such as cloth drier, calender, or tenter frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shrinks felt cones to size and shapes cones to form unfinished hat bodies. Respnsibilities include:
* Immerses cone in hot water, places cone in steam cabinet, or holds cone over steam jet, to shrink and soften cone.
* Positions softened cone over heated head-shaped block.
* Presses and rubs cone to smooth and shape cone by hand or using iron.
* Ties cord around base of crown and pulls edge of cone over base of block to form brim of hat.
* Removes cord and block from hat body after drying.
* May place cones in drying cabinet following blocking process.
Industry:Professional careers
