- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machines that impregnate fiber tubing, pipe, or conduit with pitch. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads items into treatment tank with hoist and closes tank lid.
* Presses button to start pumps that circulate pitch in tank.
* Turns valves and observes gauges to control vacuum pressure and temperature.
* Records instrument readings at designated intervals.
* Removes impregnated tubes from treatment tank and places them in water tank to cool, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends molding machine that casts articles, such as pots, cups, trays, and synthetic soil blocks from pulp slurry. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to admit water into pulp-mixing vat.
* Weighs and dumps specified amounts of scrap paper, rosin, wax, and other binders into vat.
* Transfers mixed slurry to storage tank or slurry tank.
* Activates forming heads to dip molds into slurry tank.
* Monitors operation of vacuum suction that fills forms or molds.
* Weighs amount of slurry gathered in random molds to ensure quality control.
* Adjusts timers to control curing and drying cycles.
* Observes pickup die which removes cured articles from forming heads or molds.
* Cleans residue from molds, using water hose.
* May tend machine that forms fiber pipe or conduit around mandrels of specified sizes and be designated Forming-Machine Operator (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that forms wet pulp into bales according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate flow of pulp slush from main supply line to pulp machine headbox.
* Starts equipment, such as vacuum and water pumps, mix tank agitator, cyclone drier and fluffer, shredder disks, screw conveyor, and compressor, to mix, dry, shred, and bale pulp of specified moisture content.
* Examines pulp for specified consistency and adjusts panel controls to correct inconsistency.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that loads and unloads press and humidifier unit that press and treat hardboard, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor to transfer unpressed mats of woodpulp to automatic press loader.
* Aligns shelves of press loader with opening in press, and moves controls to transfer mat to pressing screen or metal plate on press bed.
* Moves controls to align press unloader with press discharge and to activate tongs that grasp pressing screen or plate to pull hardboard from press onto unloader shelves.
* Lowers unloader and retracts tongs.
* Moves humidifier transfer car to press unloader and starts hydraulic mechanism that aligns openings in car with shelves of unloader.
* Starts unloader rollers that transfer pressed hardboard sheets onto humidifier car.
* Pushes car to humidifier, and activates piston that transfers car to humidifier.
* Unloads humidifier car after it is automatically discharged from humidifier by aligning rollers of unloading device with car and feeding boards between rollers that pile boards for packing.
* Assists humidifier operator to remove pressing screens manually from press and transfer them to dolly.
* Examines screens for damage or defects and marks faulty screens, using crayon.
* Transfers usable screens to press loader for reuse.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that form continuous sheets of pulp from woodpulp slush. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines and turns valves to regulate flow of slush pulp into machine vat.
* Turns handwheels to adjust feed cylinders in vat, pressure of press rolls, and tension on pickup felt to produce pulp sheet of specified moisture content.
* Cuts and folds continuous sheet into laps and loads laps onto skid or handtruck.
* May install cutters to cut sheets to specified dimensions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts and folds continuous pulpwood sheet into laps as it emerges from wet-machine cutter rolls, using lap cutter (pointed wooden stick) or power-cutting bar.
* Piles laps on rack truck or conveyor for transfer to hydraulic press, inserting wire-mesh screen between each lap.
* May compress pile of laps in hydraulic press to remove specific amount of moisture.
* May assist in threading pulp sheet through press rolls and in other duties.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in papermaking. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cardboard roll core on steel shaft, and positions shaft on winding reel, using hoist.
* Threads paper through drier and calender rolls, and wraps end around roll core.
* Observes paper winding on roll, and flags defects with colored chalk mark or by inserting paper strip in roll.
* Lifts full rolls from winding reel onto dolly, using hoist, and pushes them to finishing area.
* Turns valves to spray steam, air, and water on paper in preparation for calendering.
* Pulls broke from drier and calender rolls.
* Cleans calender rolls, using hand scraper, solvent, and rags.
* Turns handwheel to adjust tension on paper.
* Assists machine-clothing replacer in changing papermaking machine clothing, such as wire-mesh belts and wet and dry felts.
* Oils and greases machine.
* Cleans wire-mesh belt, wet felt, and machine frame, using water hose, airhose, soap, brushes, and rags.
* May inflate shaft designed to grip inside of roll core and prevent slipping of paper while winding.
* May push rolls of paper into position on scales for weighing and mark rolls of paper for shipment, using stencil and stencil brush.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that grind and mix ingredients, such as glue, dyes, water, chemicals, and resins, according to specifications, to produce compounds used in heads and striking surfaces of kitchen, penny, and book matches. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps chemicals, dyes, and other ingredients into sifting and grinding machines and starts machines to sift and grind ingredients, according to specifications.
* Dumps or pours specified quantities of ingredients into mixing machine and starts machine to mix ingredients, according to specifications.
* Measures viscosity of ingredients, using viscometer.
* May submit sample to laboratory for testing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that mix ground coke, coal, anode butts, and pitch into carbon paste and press paste into anodes or electrodes. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets automatic scale and steam regulator to specified weight and pressure.
* Opens hopper valves to load specified amounts of coke, coal, butts, and pitch scales into batch car.
* Starts equipment and charges mixer with mixing ingredients.
* Turns valve to admit liquid pitch into mixer.
* Records charging and discharging time of mixer.
* Periodically inspects system to verify consistency of carbon paste and dimensions of anodes or electrodes emerging from press.
* Records data for each batch processed.
* May lubricate and perform minor repair on machines.
* May tend machine that grinds material for electrodes.
* May tend machines, using panelboard, and be designated Carbon-Paste-Mixer Operator, Panelboard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists compounder in blending oils. Respnsibilities include:
* Gauges supply of oil in tanks.
* Segregates and dumps barrels of oil into respective tanks.
* Takes samples of blended oil to laboratory for analysis.
* Loads and unloads tank cars.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
