- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who positions fabric rolls and string spools on letoff rack and removes empty roll shells from calender machine.
* Inserts ends of fabric into hot press to splice them.
* Conveys fabric rolls to and from storage, calender, and production areas, using electric crane hoist or forklift.
* Cleans dip tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any of following duties at calendering machine to facilitate coating, imprinting, or forming rubber sheeting or rubberized fabric. Respnsibilities include:
* Changes fabric rolls and roll shells, using overhead hoist, on letoff racks and windup racks. Threads material through machine.
* Observes operation to detect faulty calendering.
* Sets yardage counter.
* Turns handwheels, moves lever, or presses buttons on control panel to adjust sheeting tension and windup speed.
* Prepares and attaches identification tag to calendered roll.
* May splice uncoated roll to end of roll in process inserting gum strip between ends and vulcanizing in bar splice press.
* May read yardage gauge and compare weight for conformance to specifications.
* May relieve calender operator.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions liner rolls on windup rack and lowers full calender rolls to floor, using hoist.
* Cuts roll and starts fabric into liner rolls.
* Trims ragged fabric edges, using scissors.
* Examines fabric for wrinkles or other defects and tags finished rolls to show weight, yardage, and stock type.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who impregnates fiberglass matting and other fabric materials with resin compounds for use in laminating plastic products. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cellophane or wax paper on worktable and spreads resin compounds over sheet evenly with hand spreader.
* Places precut fabric matting on resin and rolls it with wire-mesh-covered roller to saturate matting.
* May weigh specified quantities of plastics ingredients on scale and dump them into containers for use in molding plastic products.
* May pour premixed resins into saturating tank and thread fabric through rollers of impregnating machine to prepare material for laminating.
* May cut specified patterns from impregnated fabric, using template, hand shears, and knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to prechop and pulverize vulcanized scrap rubber for reuse. Respnsibilities include:
* Transfers material between storage and work areas on pallet, using forklift truck.
* Starts prechopper, pulverizer, and connecting conveyor.
* Places box on scale under discharge hopper of pulverizer to load ground material to specified weight.
* Loads scrap into prechop hopper, selecting it according to specified type, compound, and color.
* Examines scrap while loading and removes foreign matter, such as metal, cloth, and plastic.
* Observes thermometers and dials for room and exhaust temperatures and amperage used.
* Adjusts speed of conveyor feed to pulverizer to avoid overloading and prevent overheating and burning material.
* Observes temperature indicators on control panel of water cooling system and air vents, turns valve to adjust water flow, and opens ports to increase airflow to cool machine jacket or grinding stock.
* Examines ground rubber for size and adjusts gap of discharge opening to prevent rubber from passing until ground to desired fineness.
* Observes magnetic grid at mouth of pulverizer that screens pellets to remove any metal missed on visual inspection.
* Removes screen and wipes off accumulated metal, using cloth.
* Folds and tapes filled box top, and marks weight and compound number on box.
* Posts amount and type of ground rubber processed to production record.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends system of grinders, crushers, conveyors, vibrating screens, and elevators in salt mill that crush and screen rock salt extracted from mine. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves switches, levers, and other controls on instrument panels to start and stop equipment.
* Reads gauges to verify specified operation of equipment.
* Starts and stops various conveyors to control direction of flow, to store salt of specified size in designated storage bins.
* Observes and listens to operation of equipment and reports malfunctions to supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that chops and shreds animal stock (skins, splits, fleshings, and trimmings) used in making glue.
* Lifts stock from table, places stock on conveyor leading into machine and starts machine.
* Greases and oils machine.
* May signal other workers to load stock onto conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates mixing, screening, and milling machines to process salt. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified size screens and rollers in milling machine, using handtools to obtain salt crystals of designated sizes.
* Opens chute to admit salt into milling machine and starts machine.
* Brushes oversized salt from vibrating screen to prevent clogging.
* May be designated according to salt product being milled as miller, kiln-dried salt.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates mill equipped with rollers to grind paste of premixed ingredients, such as pigments, resins, solvents, oils, and plasticizers, for use in paint, lacquer, and ink. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls to set specified roll spacing and pressure.
* Starts flow of water through roll cooling system to prevent ignition or discoloration of paste.
* Adjusts feed gate to regulate flow of paste from hopper onto feeder roll.
* Secures scraper blade to takeoff roll and bolts chute to scraper blade, allowing paste to flow from roll into thinning and storage tanks or scrapes paste from mill apron into container, using spatula.
* Tests paste sample for fineness, using grind gauge, or sends sample to laboratory for analysis.
* Adjusts roll pressure controls to regulate flow of paste during grinding.
* Cleans equipment, using scrapers and solvents.
* May pump specified types and quantities of thinners into thinning tank.
* May blend specified extenders (chemicals that increase bulk of paint) with paste, using portable mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates mill equipped with rollers to grind paste of premixed ingredients, such as pigments, resins, solvents, oils, and plasticizers, for use in paint, lacquer, and ink. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls to set specified roll spacing and pressure.
* Starts flow of water through roll cooling system to prevent ignition or discoloration of paste.
* Adjusts feed gate to regulate flow of paste from hopper onto feeder roll.
* Secures scraper blade to takeoff roll and bolts chute to scraper blade, allowing paste to flow from roll into thinning and storage tanks or scrapes paste from mill apron into container, using spatula.
* Tests paste sample for fineness, using grind gauge, or sends sample to laboratory for analysis.
* Adjusts roll pressure controls to regulate flow of paste during grinding.
* Cleans equipment, using scrapers and solvents.
* May pump specified types and quantities of thinners into thinning tank.
* May blend specified extenders (chemicals that increase bulk of paint) with paste, using portable mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
