- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends tumbler machine to break off flash from molded rubber products. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads tumbler with rubber products and sets controls to regulate flow of liquid nitrogen to machine and tumbling time.
* Starts machine that freezes product to make it brittle and tumbles product to break off flash.
* Empties contents of tumbler on screening device to separate flash from rubber products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends wash tanks and centrifugal wringers to wash and dry nitrated TNT. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts agitators in wash tank to mix water and TNT received from nitrator operator.
* Turns valves to draw off wash water after prescribed washing and settling time and to regulate flow of steam or hot water to tank coils to maintain contents at specified temperature.
* Admits metered amounts of chemicals to facilitate purification and crystallization of TNT.
* Opens valves at bottom of tank to drop crystallized TNT through vibrating screen and water spray to form pellets.
* Pumps pellets from receiving pits to baskets of centrifugal wringers and starts wringers to expel water from pellets.
* Pulls lever to empty TNT from wringers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends wet end of forming machine that forces viscose fluid between adjustable metal tips (bars) and into acid bath that coagulates fluid into continuous sheets of cellophane. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads sheet through rollers and smooths moving sheet to remove slack and wrinkles.
* Performs titration test to determine strength of acid bath solution and adds specified quantity of chemicals to bath to maintain solution strength.
* Mixes fresh solution according to schedule and formula.
* Turns valves to drain tanks.
* Moves waste products to salvage area on handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends low pressure kettle and auxiliary equipment to coagulate latex particles in thiokol latex suspension. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves and pumps specified amount of latex suspension and water into kettle.
* Starts agitator and turns steam valve to heat solution to specified temperature.
* Turns valve to admit acid into solution.
* Observes processing of solution and coagulation of latex suspension into uniform crumb size.
* Examines sample to determine clarity of water and turns valves to stop flow of acid into solution.
* Determines pH of batch, using test papers.
* Adds alkali to batch to neutralize acid content.
* Opens outlet valve to transfer suspension to filter or shaker screen for separation of crumb from liquid.
* May open water valve to cool solution in kettle prior to transfer.
* May tend auxiliary equipment to dewater crumbs.
* May record data from operations in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends low pressure kettle and auxiliary equipment to coagulate latex particles in thiokol latex suspension. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves and pumps specified amount of latex suspension and water into kettle.
* Starts agitator and turns steam valve to heat solution to specified temperature.
* Turns valve to admit acid into solution.
* Observes processing of solution and coagulation of latex suspension into uniform crumb size.
* Examines sample to determine clarity of water and turns valves to stop flow of acid into solution.
* Determines pH of batch, using test papers.
* Adds alkali to batch to neutralize acid content.
* Opens outlet valve to transfer suspension to filter or shaker screen for separation of crumb from liquid.
* May open water valve to cool solution in kettle prior to transfer.
* May tend auxiliary equipment to dewater crumbs.
* May record data from operations in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in compound room of phonograph record manufacturing plant. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified quantities of ingredients, such as lampblack, resins and plastic materials, and dumps them into hopper of mixing machine.
* Pulls kneaded compound onto rollers of mixing machine, using hook, as material flows from discharge end of machine.
* Breaks plastic sheeting into sheets of uniform length as it emerges on conveyor from cooling process, and weighs sheets on skids.
* Removes labels from defective records, using machine, to salvage material for reprocessing.
* Dumps delabeled records into machine that grinds material into scrap.
* May be designated according to particular task performed as breaker table worker; grinder; roller hand; weigher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds devulcanized scrap rubber stock into agitator tanks that wash it to remove caustic substance. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels specified amount of stock into tank of water and starts mechanical agitator.
* Shovels washed stock onto conveyors leading to drier or into dewatering device that squeezes moisture from stock.
* May adjust dewatering device, using wrench.
* May pump washed stock into vibrating screen to facilitate removal of moisture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds rubber tubing into machine that cements calendered gum rubber onto tubing to provide adhesive backing for braided fabric covering.
* May cut and cement gum rubber backing to rubber tubing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties concerned with processing and packaging drug and toilet products. Respnsibilities include:
* Transfers specified ingredients from storage to production area, using handtruck.
* Assembles specified ingredients for compounding.
* Feeds plants, roots, and herbs into machines, such as silage cutters, fanning mills, and washing machines.
* Loads botanicals into driers.
* Cuts animal tissue into strips, using saws.
* Feeds strips into meat grinders.
* Opens drums and scoops or dumps contents into kettles, tanks, or machine hopper.
* Removes filled cartons from packaging machine conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to process stock (animal skins, splits, fleshings, and trimmings) used to make glue. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads stock onto conveyor leading to chopper or moves stock, using handtruck, and dumps stock into vat or mill.
* Gathers stock from vat or mill, using pitchfork, and tosses stock into truck.
* Cleans mills, vats, and floors, using forks, brushes, and water.
Industry:Professional careers
