- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who controls section of paper machine to wind paper onto core to make jumbo roll of specified dimensions. Responsibilities include:
* Positions empty core on machine carriage and tightens support clamps, using hoist and wrench.
* Tears continuous sheet, using compressed airhose, when roll is filled and blows free end around revolving empty core to start new roll.
* Removes full roll from machine with hoist.
* Turns handwheel to regulate tension on paper being wound on new roll.
* Examines sheet for defects, such as dirt, slime spots, holes, and wrinkles, and marks defective portions with chalk.
* Periodically runs hand along winding roll of paper to test for tension and to feel for soft spots and lumps.
* Cleans lint from calender rolls, using hand scraper and cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to wind continuous strips of paper or cardboard into tubes of specified dimensions and cut tubing to length to form fiber cans, containers, or cores for paper rolls. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts forming mandrels and cutting saw on machine, using handtools.
* Loads rolls of paper or cardboard on machine feedrack and locks them in place with clamps.
* Threads paper or cardboard through tension and gluing rollers, fills glue reservoirs, and sets thermostatic control to regulate temperatures of glue.
* Starts machine and turns wheels to adjust tension on pressure rollers and to synchronize speed of traveling cutoff saw with machine feed speed.
* Observes tubing for excess glue and open seams and adjusts machine to alter glue deposit and degree of spiral.
* Removes finished cores and stacks or places them on conveyor for transfer to other work areas.
* May be designated according to type of product wound as coremaker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends paper-cutting machine that cuts edges of bound and unbound books, periodicals, catalogs, and directories to specified size for binding and rebinding. Responsibilities include:
* Reads instructions on worksheet to ascertain machine setting requirements.
* Inserts or replaces knives in trimmer and adjusts guides to trim head (top), tail (bottom), and fore (front) edges of book to specified dimensions, and locks sections in place.
* Starts machine for test run, and examines finished book body to ensure finished sample meets job order specifications and book body sample.
* Loads book bodies into feed receptacle of machine.
* Starts machine and observes operation.
* Examines book bodies to ensure specifications are met.
* Observes operation of machine during production run.
* Stops machine when machine malfunctions and adjusts knives and guides as required.
* Replenishes supply of book bodies periodically.
* May tend manually operated trimmer, jogging book bodies to align edges and placing book body against three sections of guide in turn to trim three edges of book.
* Depresses treadle or lever to clamp cut edges at each position.
* May be required to watch for colored markers between pages that indicate narrow margins and foldouts when positioning edges of book bodies against guides.
* May stack books as they are trimmed.
* May operate cutter to cut cardboard, paper, or book covers to specified size.
* May push cart stacked with books to next work station.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that combines paper and plastic film to be used as jacket covers for books. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts rolls of paper and plastic film on machine holders, using hoist, and installs roll of adhesive tape on either side of machine.
* Splices ends of paper, plastic, and tape to ends of previous rolls.
* Changes rubber stamps on printing roll to print specified data, fills inkpot and glue reservoir, and adjusts forming bar and makes other machine alterations to conform to size specifications.
* Starts machine, gradually increasing speed by depressing foot lever, and observes machine operation as machine glues paper and plastic film together, cuts it to size, and tapes edges.
* Measures width and length of finished covers and adjusts machine to obtain specified size.
* Replenishes stock, clears jams, and makes operating adjustments as required.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that interleafs rolls of carbon and copy paper and winds interleafed paper into rolls of specified length. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine size and type carbon and copy paper to be processed.
* Places specified rolls of paper on machine spindles, using chain hoist.
* Threads ends of rolls through feed rollers and paper guides, under edge trimming knives, and laps ends around takeup spindle core.
* Adjusts paper guides and tension controls, using wrench.
* Starts machine and observes machine operation to detect wrinkling of paper and uneven winding.
* Reads footage counter and stops machine when specified footage is wound.
* Cuts interleafed paper, using knife, and removes roll from machine, using chain hoist.
* Records size and number of rolls processed on work order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that cut bookmatch combs (blanks) from cardboard rolls. Responsibilities include:
* Fastens metal hub to center opening of cardboard roll with handtools and inserts turning shaft in hub.
* Pushes roll onto let-off rack.
* Threads cardboard strip into machine through guide and pressure rolls.
* Adjusts circular cutting knives that slit cardboard to specified width.
* Turns handwheel to move cutter and punch section of machine forward on track to feed combs into dip conveyor.
* Starts machine to process combs.
* Inspects combs for defects, such as insufficient punch pressure and spread, noncuts, and improper width.
* Adjusts machine with handtools to correct defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cutting mechanism of tube-making machine that cuts multiwall tubes. Responsibilities include:
* Turns controls to synchronize speed of drawer rolls with speed of stock so cutting mechanism will cut tubes at printed cutoff line.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts v-or-l-shape pieces from corners of scored cardboard blanks to facilitate folding and forming boxes or from corners of paper sheets used for covering boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Turns wheel to adjust angle and position of guides on machine according to size of sheet or blank and cutting instructions.
* Positions single or multiple blanks or sheets against guides and depresses pedal to lower blade that cuts out corners.
* Turns stock to bring each corner into position for cutting and cuts specified number of corners.
* May be designated according to type of machine used as double-corner cutter; single-corner cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts v-or-l-shape pieces from corners of scored cardboard blanks to facilitate folding and forming boxes or from corners of paper sheets used for covering boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Turns wheel to adjust angle and position of guides on machine according to size of sheet or blank and cutting instructions.
* Positions single or multiple blanks or sheets against guides and depresses pedal to lower blade that cuts out corners.
* Turns stock to bring each corner into position for cutting and cuts specified number of corners.
* May be designated according to type of machine used as double-corner cutter; single-corner cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that cut edges, flaps, notches, or openings in envelope blanks or envelopes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions envelope blanks or envelopes on machine table against guides and stops.
* Depresses pedal or moves lever to lower ram which forces cutting die through stock to cut edges, flaps, notches, or openings.
Industry:Professional careers
