- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends splicing machine that bonds preglued edges of veneer strips together to form larger sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns dial or handwheel of machine to regulate heat, pressure of rollers, and conveyor speed according to thickness of veneer sheets to be processed.
* Positions two veneer strips side by side against center guide of machine and feeds them into machine that automatically forces glued edges together and cures edges to bond sheets.
* Observes bonded sheets to detect defects, such as overlapping or unbonded edges.
* Adjusts heat, pressure, and speed of machine, or cleans heating bar with scraping tool to correct malfunctions.
* Verifies dimensions of veneer sheets against work order, using tape measure.
* May record footage spliced as indicated by meter on machine.
* May spray glue on edges of veneer strips prior to bonding, using spray gun.
* May tend splicing machine that automatically applies glue to edges prior to bonding and be designated Edge Gluer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stacks or unstacks lumber to load or unload kiln car to level of lumber table. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor that carries lumber onto kiln car in layers, drops stickers between layers, or removes dried lumber from car.
* Straightens lumber on conveyor for even flow onto stack, using handhook.
* May record data such as thickness, grade, length, and quantity of lumber stacked.
* May drive kiln car to transfer lumber car to kiln or storage.
* May tend machine that stacks inspected boards in layers of specified width prior to further processing and be designated Stacker.
* When concerned only with unloading kiln cars, may be designated unstacker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies varnish to stems and bowls of corncob pipes by any combination of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Places pipe bowls on revolving disks of plate that carries them past nozzle of spray gun.
* (2) Places parts of pipe in tumbling cylinder containing varnish and presses button to start cylinder, coating parts with varnish.
* (3) Places bowl of pipe on revolving spindle and holds brush against bowl.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that joins sheets of veneer with gummed-paper tape. Respnsibilities include:
* Places pieces of matched veneer or veneer strips edge to edge between machine rollers.
* Lowers feed rollers that draw veneer through machine and apply moistened tape.
* Raises feed roller when taping is complete.
* Replaces reels of tape on spindle and threads tape through machine.
* Pours water into dispenser.
* Moves lever or turns handwheel to regulate speed of machine or to set pressure of feed roller according to thickness of veneer.
* May tend machine that joins sheets of veneer with gummed thread rather than tape.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines and equipment that automatically extrude, pelletize, and cool mixture of ground wood and bark to form wood-fuel pellets. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls to adjust temperature and steam pressure gauges, according to type of wood and bark mixture being processed, regulate conveyor speed, and start machine.
* Periodically tests samples of extruded mixture for moisture content, using electronic moisture tester, and readjusts steam pressure gauges as required.
* Listens to machines and equipment and monitors control panel to detect malfunctions and to ensure production flow.
* Clears jams, using paddle.
* Removes and replaces worn dies, using wrench and screwdriver.
* Washes, cleans, lubricates, and greases machines and equipment, using water, detergent, brushes, rags, oilcan, and grease gun.
* Records control panel readings in operating log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds veneer back sheets onto conveyor of plywood-layup line machine for subsequent assembly into plywood panels. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes button to activate infeed conveyor that conveys stack of back sheets to worker.
* Removes back sheet from stack and places sheet on conveyor of plywood-layup line machine behind glue-coated face sheet, crossbands, and core stock placed by core feeders, plywood layup line, for subsequent assembly into plywood panel by core layers, plywood layup line.
* Presses counter control pedal to tally each back sheet placed on conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes glue-coated veneer sheets from conveyor of plywood-layup line machine and stacks them in sequence to form plywood panels, working as member of team. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses pedals to activate chain conveyor that conveys stack of caul boards to discharge end of machine and to raise lift table to working level to facilitate assembly of plywood panels.
* Places caul board on lift table to protect surface of face sheet in bottom panel.
* Places preglued face sheets, crossbands, core stock, and back sheets in sequence on lift table as they are discharged from machine to form plywood panels.
* Discards detected unusable sheets, such as broken or split sheets, to prevent assembly of defective panels.
* Presses pedal and button to lower completed stack of plywood panels to chain conveyor and to convey stack to hot-plate plywood press.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions tubes of ground-cork mixture into slots of machine that compresses material into rods.
* Removes tubes and places tubes in frame.
* Pushes and pulls frame down slide conveyor for subsequent baking and slicing of compressed mixture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears gluing machine that utilizes pressure and heat to bond preglued woodstock together. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes glued woodstock emerging from machine and stacks woodstock on handtruck.
* Stacks defectively glued woodstock on designated conveyor.
* Stops machine when jams occur in curing tunnel, and removes or assists gluing-machine operator in removing jammed stock.
* Lubricates machine and cleans work area, using grease gun and shovel.
* Conveys wood chips and sawdust to boilerroom, using wheelbarrow.
* May record production.
* May signal gluing-machine operator to start machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks as member of team involved in loading and unloading hot-plate plywood press that bonds glue-coated veneer sheets together to form plywood. Respnsibilities include:
* Interstacks veneer panels (assembled glue-coated veneer sheets) and caul boards on press dolly and pushes dolly to press.
* Inserts assembled cauls between press plates and pushes them into press.
* Pushes cauls from press, using stick, and stacks finished plywood panels and caul boards on separate dollies.
* Examines pressed panels for surface defects and discards defective panels.
* Conveys panels to storage area and caul boards to and from cooling area, using handtruck.
* May be designated according to working position as hot-plate plywood-press feeder; hot-plate plywood-press offbearer.
Industry:Professional careers
