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A professional who tends drying cylinder and hammer mill arranged in tandem to dry and pulverize mica. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to start flow of oil in burner and ignites oil to heat drying-cylinder.
* Starts machines that tumble mica in heated cylinder and automatically feed dry mica into hammer mill.
* Examines pulverized mica for discolorations caused by excess heat and for conformance with grinding specifications.
* Adjusts controls of drying cylinder to regulate temperature and replaces worn hammers to grind mica to specifications, using handtools.
* Changes screens on discharge chute of hammer mill according to size specified for mica.
* May fill machine hopper with mica, using tractor equipped with scoop.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that blends and melts materials, such as clay, flint, and lead oxides, to make glaze. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified amounts of ingredients on scale according to batch card.
* Dumps weighed materials into mixing machine.
* Sets timing device on mixer for specified period and starts mixer.
* Observes mixture for conformance to coloring specifications.
* Empties batch from machine into bin and transports bin to frit furnace, using lift truck.
* Dumps materials into furnace and turns gas and air valves to heat furnace to specified temperature.
* Shuts off furnace and turns wheel to pour fused mass from furnace into water sump to undergo crystallization.
* Drains off water and shovels crystals (frit) into bin.
* Transports bin to storage area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that blends and melts materials, such as clay, flint, and lead oxides, to make glaze. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified amounts of ingredients on scale according to batch card.
* Dumps weighed materials into mixing machine.
* Sets timing device on mixer for specified period and starts mixer.
* Observes mixture for conformance to coloring specifications.
* Empties batch from machine into bin and transports bin to frit furnace, using lift truck.
* Dumps materials into furnace and turns gas and air valves to heat furnace to specified temperature.
* Shuts off furnace and turns wheel to pour fused mass from furnace into water sump to undergo crystallization.
* Drains off water and shovels crystals (frit) into bin.
* Transports bin to storage area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically dips, sprays, steams, and dries glass articles, such as instrument lenses and hypodermic syringes.
* Loads articles into baskets of machine.
* Presses button to start and stop machine.
* May mix cleaning solution and test solution for acidity, using hydrometer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that laminates and glues paper to glass-wool for use as building insulation material. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds rolls of paper into machine.
* Starts machine and observes operation to ensure that glue spreads evenly and rolls of paper adhere to both sides of glass-wool to form blanket.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms plates of built-up mica. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns knob on control panel to set oven temperatures according to specifications.
* Dumps mica splittings into machine hopper and fills supply tanks with binding solution.
* Starts machine that distributes mica splittings on conveyor, sprays splittings with binding solution, and dries continuous sheet of mica.
* Examines mica plates at discharge end of machine to detect variations in thickness.
* Cuts mica sheets into plates of specified length, using cutter attached to table.
* Moves controls on hopper to regulate flow of splittings according to thickness of mica plates.
* Adjusts oven controls to regulate temperature.
* Notifies supervisor of machine malfunctions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that clean or polish forming molds and components by any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Starts pumps on vapor-blast machine to circulate water and cleaning compound through hose.
* Places parts on table and pushes table into machine cabinet.
* Pushes control lever to start flow of compressed air through hose.
* Holds and turns parts while directing pressurized stream of water and cleaning compound onto parts to remove dirt, carbon, and scales.
* Dips parts in oil solution to prevent rusting.
* (2) Inserts and secures blank mold and plunger into chuck of open-end polishing jack or lathe.
* Holds emery cloth over rotating plunger or inserts rod, covered with emery cloth, into mold to clean and polish parts.
* (3) Holds and turns parts against rotating emery wheel.
* May soak parts in hot cleaning compound or scrape parts, using scraper to loosen or remove scales and carbon.
* May rub mold surface with oil or kerosene and abrasive stone or wire brush to remove scale, rust, scratches, and dirt.
* May apply cork or graphite paste coating to mold interiors to prevent adherence of glass to molds during forming operation.
* May store cleaned molds in storage bins.
* May transfer molds and mold parts from storage to production area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that dries raw ground materials and makes pellets. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pelletizer rotating and starts feed and discharge conveyors and traveling grates in preburning-ovens.
* Turns valves to regulate water sprays in pelletizer and heat in oven.
* Observes mixing of materials and water to determine if uniform nodules are being formed.
* Observes feed hopper to ensure uniformity of filling.
* Regulates feed of materials, rotation of pelletizer, amount of water spray, and heat of oven to ensure pellets are produced to specifications.
* Opens inspection ports on oven and observes or removes pellets for examination to ensure specified hardness and heat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that dries raw ground materials and makes pellets. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pelletizer rotating and starts feed and discharge conveyors and traveling grates in preburning-ovens.
* Turns valves to regulate water sprays in pelletizer and heat in oven.
* Observes mixing of materials and water to determine if uniform nodules are being formed.
* Observes feed hopper to ensure uniformity of filling.
* Regulates feed of materials, rotation of pelletizer, amount of water spray, and heat of oven to ensure pellets are produced to specifications.
* Opens inspection ports on oven and observes or removes pellets for examination to ensure specified hardness and heat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that compresses stack of mineral wool insulation batts and inserts them into bag cover. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and compressing mechanism.
* Opens and slides bag cover over form for filling.
* Pulls lever to operate discharge mechanism and force stack into bag.
* Slides package onto table for stapling.
Industry:Professional careers
