- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that automatically forms marbles of varying colors and sizes from molten glass. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts flow of molten glass, temperature of cooling system, and size of automatic cutoff.
* Starts machine that cuts off glass lumps and drops them between rollers to form spheres.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that heat and mold slurry into pipe and boiler coverings. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses button on control panel of each molding machine to lower mold and activate hopper that automatically heats slurry, fills molds with slurry, and molds slurry into pipe and boiler coverings.
* Presses buttons on panels to raise finished moldings from machine and off bears moldings by hand.
* Discards defective moldings.
* Scrapes excess slurry from molds, using wooden blocks.
* Records type and quantity of moldings processed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends laminating press that molds fiberglass preforms into luggage cases.
* Places preform in machine mold and pours specified amount of pigmented bonding solution into center of preform.
* Starts machine to lower rubber press onto preform and to apply heat and pressure for specified time.
* Opens gate and removes molded article.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic press that molds pellets for use as synthetic gems. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs die in press with handtools and loads hopper with pellets.
* Starts machine and observes that pellets are pressed into gems of specified size and shape.
* May mix ingredients from which pellets are made.
* May assist in polishing finished gems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends fiberglass forming and winding machines to obtain sample skeins of sliver used in testing yardage per pound. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts cord of timing instrument into wall outlet near machine from which sample is taken and releases pedal to start machine.
* Places arm of timing device against strands of sliver and pushes button to start timer.
* Stops winder after specified time and removes takeup tube.
* Removes test skein from tube and hangs skein on board designated for each furnace and bushing. Carries skeins to yardage-control operator, forming for testing when sufficient skeins are obtained.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends fiberglass forming and winding machines to obtain sample skeins of sliver used in testing yardage per pound. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts cord of timing instrument into wall outlet near machine from which sample is taken and releases pedal to start machine.
* Places arm of timing device against strands of sliver and pushes button to start timer.
* Stops winder after specified time and removes takeup tube.
* Removes test skein from tube and hangs skein on board designated for each furnace and bushing. Carries skeins to yardage-control operator, forming for testing when sufficient skeins are obtained.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists dry-press operator in pressing dry tempered clay or silica into brick or other shapes. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes pallets loaded with brick and replaces empty pallets in position to receive brick from press.
* Places loaded pallets in rack of car.
* Removes defective pallets for repair.
* Removes bricks from molds, and places bricks on kiln car in specified pattern.
* Throws sand on bricks to level tiers.
* Moves rack or kiln cars into position near press and moves loaded cars away from press.
* Fills hoppers with sand and other material.
* Cleans press, dies, tables, and press pits, using handtools, shovels, and brooms.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
* May be designated according to materials pressed as clay-dry-press helper; silica-dry-press helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds optical glass squares into furnace to heat glass to prescribed state of plasticity for molding. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads or sprinkles refractory powder on furnace floor or tray, by hand, to prevent adherence of heated glass to floor or tray.
* Positions glass squares on tray and slides tray into furnace, using paddle, or places squares on slide which automatically feeds squares into furnace and spaces them on furnace floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds clay into hopper of machine that automatically forms potter pins used to support clayware during firing.
* Places formed pins in drier.
* May change die on machine according to size and shape of pins to be formed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to process molten glass into continuous sheet under direction of drawing-kiln operator. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes continuous sheet of glass for scratches, breaks, and other blemishes as it passes through rolls of drawing kiln.
* Wipes foreign matter from rolls and adjusts roll weights to minimize surface defects and breaks in glass.
* Moves controls to open rolls of drawing kiln when signaled by drawing-kiln operator to allow passage of stones and prevent breaks in glass.
* Opens air jets or draws metal rod across hot sheet of glass to prevent breaks from running.
* Adjusts slides on air ducts to cool glass and minimize warping.
* Clears broken glass from rolls.
* May transport cullet from work area to storage area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
