- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tests temperature of glass melting furnaces and regulates gas and air supply to maintain specified temperature, using any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Measures temperature of furnace sections, using optical pyrometer.
* Sights through opening of pyrometer into furnace opening and turns sleeve dial on pyrometer until color of wire filament matches luminosity of flames.
* Reads dial indicator to obtain millivolt reading and compares reading with temperature chart to determine if temperature is in accordance with specifications.
* Turns valves to adjust gas-to-air ratio and increase or decrease temperature within refractory.
* (2) Computes and plots averages of glass temperatures on graph paper from temperature charts, using pencil and template to draw lines and circles.
* Interprets graph to determine need for temperature adjustment.
* Turns valve to increase or decrease air and gas supply into burners.
* (3) Tests gas-to-air ratio of burned atmosphere, using gas analyzer.
* Inserts hose of gas analyzer into furnace and starts suction pump to withdraw sample of burned atmosphere.
* Observes dial indicator on analyzer to determine if gas-to-air ratio is in accordance with specifications.
* Turns valve to adjust gas-to-air ratio and control heat of furnace.
* Records tests, temperatures, and adjustments in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests temperature of glass melting furnaces and regulates gas and air supply to maintain specified temperature, using any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Measures temperature of furnace sections, using optical pyrometer.
* Sights through opening of pyrometer into furnace opening and turns sleeve dial on pyrometer until color of wire filament matches luminosity of flames.
* Reads dial indicator to obtain millivolt reading and compares reading with temperature chart to determine if temperature is in accordance with specifications.
* Turns valves to adjust gas-to-air ratio and increase or decrease temperature within refractory.
* (2) Computes and plots averages of glass temperatures on graph paper from temperature charts, using pencil and template to draw lines and circles.
* Interprets graph to determine need for temperature adjustment.
* Turns valve to increase or decrease air and gas supply into burners.
* (3) Tests gas-to-air ratio of burned atmosphere, using gas analyzer.
* Inserts hose of gas analyzer into furnace and starts suction pump to withdraw sample of burned atmosphere.
* Observes dial indicator on analyzer to determine if gas-to-air ratio is in accordance with specifications.
* Turns valve to adjust gas-to-air ratio and control heat of furnace.
* Records tests, temperatures, and adjustments in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls automatic equipment to weigh, mix, and melt ingredients to make glass. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts panel controls to transfer specified amounts of ingredients, such as silica sand, soda ash, limestone flurospar, feldspar, borax, clay, and cullet (waste glass) from storage bins to automatic weigh hopper and batch mixer.
* Adjusts panel controls to dump blended mix into furnace.
* Observes signal lights, dials, and charts, and turns switches to adjust air, fuel, water pressure, and furnace temperature.
* Turns switch to reverse gas fire from one side of gas-and-air regenerative chambers to other side to equalize heat in furnace.
* Observes color of molten glass through furnace opening or reads gauges or pyrometer to determine when furnace temperature has reached prescribed level.
* Collects sample of molten glass for laboratory analysis.
* Makes adjustments on equipment to correct deviations from specifications.
* Records batch mixing, glass melting, and production data.
* May control furnace to melt and fuse premixed ingredients and be designated Tank-Furnace Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic furnace that makes glass used as flux in production of glass enamel. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified chemical ingredients.
* Shovels ingredients into hopper of conveyor that transports ingredients through automatic blending, pulverizing, and sifting process.
* Lifts tank with blended mix over hopper of gravity-fed furnace, using hoist, and releases mix from tank into hopper.
* Observes gauges and adjusts controls of furnace to maintain specified temperature in crucible.
* Stirs ingredients in hopper of furnace, using glass rod.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who charges cupola furnace with slag, basalt, lime, and silica to produce mineral wool. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and measures portions of coke, slag, basalt, lime, and silica according to formula specified in orders from cupola operator, insulation.
* Charges materials into furnace in alternate layers.
* May use tractor equipped with scoop to move raw materials to storage and conveyors to feed materials to furnace.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in controlling field, periodic, retort, and tunnel kilns to bake green clay products, such as brick, tile, and sewer pipe.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in controlling field, periodic, retort, and tunnel kilns to bake green clay products, such as brick, tile, and sewer pipe.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates spray drier to evaporate water from clay slip to form pellets used in production of mosaic quarry, wall and floor tile. Respnsibilities include:
* Connects hose to ball mill and drier pump, using wrenches, and opens valves.
* Sets controls on panelboard for specified temperatures and pressure in drier and to route pellets into specified silo.
* Starts pump and drier and observes dials and gauges and adjusts controls to ensure that specified temperature and pressure are maintained.
* Draws sample of pellets from drier and measures moisture content, using moisture meter.
* Records specified processing data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls preheating chamber and tunnel kiln to preheat and bake clay products, such as brick, sewer pipe, mosaic tile, and ceramic and quarry tile. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes color of fires and reactions of pyrometric cones to increases in temperatures in kiln and reads gauges and automatic recording instruments to verify specified temperatures in kiln.
* Turns fuel and air valves and opens or closes dampers to adjust temperatures.
* Pulls loaded kiln car from drier, opens preheater doors, and pushes kiln car into preheater, using car puller or transfer car.
* Closes preheater doors and starts mechanism that pushes car through preheater.
* Pulls loaded kiln cars from preheating chamber, opens tunnel kiln doors, and starts mechanism that pushes string of cars through kiln.
* Removes cars from tunnel kiln and moves them to sorting area, using transfer car.
* May control kiln equipped with automatic loading and drawing equipment.
* May control drying tunnel.
* May control tunnel kiln equipped with preheating chamber to bake clay products.
* May be designated according to type of tile burned as bisque-tile burner; glost-tile burner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes fired ware, such as china or pottery, from kiln and prepares kiln for reuse. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens kiln door or removes brick and mortar that seals kiln during firing.
* Picks up fired ware from tunnel-kiln car, conveyor slabs, or from saggers.
* Presses ware against abrasive grinding wheel to remove rough spots or marks.
* Segregates ware according to pattern or design.
* Cleans interior of kiln.
* May be designated according to kiln drawn as bisque-kiln drawer; glost-kiln drawer; tunnel-kiln drawer.
Industry:Professional careers
