- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who strips molded latex or plastic products, such as masks, puppets, and footwear, from molds, performing any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Removes mold from conveyor emerging from drying oven and clamps it in holder to secure mold.
* Trims excess plastic from mold top, using knife.
* Pries section of workpiece from mold wall, grips workpiece manually or using stripping pliers or prongs, and twists and pulls footwear from mold.
* (2) Dusts talc into molds and removes masks or puppets, using knife.
* (3) Immerses rack of molds in water tank to cool them, dries molds, using airhose, and pulls masks or puppets from molds, using pliers.
* Places acceptable items on transfer belt or in box and damaged ones on salvage pile.
* May clean molds by hand or using steam hose.
* May be designated according to material used as stripper, latex; stripper, soft plastic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills jars with suppositories ejected from automatic molding machine, preparatory to capping. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions empty jar under chute of machine to fill jar with suppositories ejected from machine that automatically melts, molds, and refrigerates glycerine, forming suppositories.
* Places filled jar on conveyor that carries jar to capping operation.
* May assist machine molder in adjusting mold scraper and replacing damaged or defective molds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coats bowling ball molds components with parting agent, installs ball cores, and assembles and seals molds preparatory to filling and curing. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects parts to ensure clean and dry condition and applies parting agent, using brush or spray gun.
* Installs core on support bolt and turns bolt to adjust core to center of mold.
* Lays yarn gasket in groove around bottom flange, aligns top of mold over bottom, and secures it with thumbscrews or clamps.
* Places completed mold in rack for filling.
* May disassemble molds and remove cured balls from molds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares molds (cells) used in casting liquid plastics materials into sheet form. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts wooden or plastic wedges between sides of glass cells to widen cell opening.
* Folds paper into funnel shape and inserts paper funnel in cell opening to provide passage for liquid plastics.
* Records identification data on tag and attaches it to cell.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans, stores, and distributes molds used to form rubber goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Conveys molds to presses according to work orders, manually or using handtruck.
* Sprays molds with steam to remove protective oil or cleaning fluid.
* Immerses used molds in tank of hot cleaning fluid, manually or using hoist, to loosen adhering rubber particles.
* Removes rubber particles from mold cavities, using hand or powered wire brush.
* Brushes oil on mold before storing to prevent rusting.
* Places mold in storage racks.
* May sandblast molds to renew surfaces.
* May repaint identifying data on cleaned molds.
* May disassemble molds for cleaning and reassemble cleaned molds, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills molds with heated mixture to form drug and toilet products, such as lipsticks, deodorant, and eyeshadow sticks. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours or opens valve to admit mixture slowly into mold cavities to avoid forming bubbles.
* Places mold on chilling plate or in refrigerator, or starts fan to cool and congeal contents.
* Scrapes excess material from mold, using spatula.
* May open mold and remove formed product.
* May insert lipstick cases or other containers into molds to hold and form product.
* May pump or pour mixture into temperature-controlled kettle prior to molding to heat mixture to pouring temperature.
* May be designated according to product molded as lipstick molder; suppository molder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills bowling ball molds. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts mold from supply cart, places mold on holding fixture, and positions filler hole of mold under spigot of resin tank.
* Turns valve to open spigot and control flow of resin from tank into mold.
* Turns valve to stop resin flow when mold is filled.
* Lifts filled mold from holding fixture onto storage cart.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in adjusting and operating machines to extrude and print polyethylene film used in manufacture of bags. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines polyethylene film from extruding machine for defects and conformance to dimensional specifications.
* Examines samples from printing machine for clarity and registration of print, color intensity, and discriminations of shading to determine quality of print on film.
* Trains new workers in operation and setup of machines.
* May adjust and install replacement parts on machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in extruding plastic sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes installation of dies, and examines extruded sheets for defects.
* Trains new workers in machine operation and setup.
* May diagnose operating difficulties and adjust machine cycles.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machines to extrude uncured rubber into continuous strip and to cut strip into specified lengths and weight for molding rubber footwear outsoles. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs dies on tube machine, turns steam valve to heat die and screw chamber, feeds milled rubber chunks into machine hopper, and starts machine to force rubber through die to form continuous strip.
* Threads extruded strip through cold-water tank and holddown bars, and between feeder belts to cutter.
* Turns wheel to adjust feed speed to length of blank cut.
* Starts machine and measures and weighs sample blank, using ruler and scale, for conformance to specifications.
* Removes cut pieces from discharge belt and places them on trays.
Industry:Professional careers
