- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that glues transparent cellophane or acetate paper over precut windows in envelope or paperboard carton blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Replenishes glue reservoir and fills feed chute with precut transparent strips.
* Loads blanks in automatic feedrack and starts machine, or feeds blanks singly into machine.
* Removes jammed blanks from rollers, and inspects envelopes or cartons to detect defects in cutting and gluing.
* May tend machine equipped with roll of transparent material that cuts material into strips before gluing them to envelope or carton blanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies sealing glue, such as dextrin or latex, to envelope flaps and dries them by passing envelopes under heat element. Responsibilities include:
* Fills glue reservoir, starts and regulates burners in drying unit, and loads automatic feedrack with envelopes.
* Observes machine operation and examines envelopes to detect malfunctioning in feeding, gluing, or drying process.
* Adjusts rollers to regulate glue flow, and turns rheostat to synchronize rate of envelope feed with glue applicator.
* Removes jammed material from rollers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that folds and glues paperboard sheets to form match slides, and applies friction paint (striking material). Responsibilities include:
* Fills glue and friction paint reservoirs, using dipper.
* Loads stack of paperboard sheets into feed mechanism and starts machine.
* Observes completed slides as they pass on conveyor to detect defective folding, gluing, and friction paint application.
* Adjusts rollers that apply friction paint and glue, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses glued cardboard tubes and disks to form gift wrap ribbon spools. Responsibilities include:
* Places cardboard disk endpieces into slots on sides of machine vise.
* Dips ends of cardboard tube in glue and places tube between disks in vise.
* Depresses pedal to press disks and tube together to form spool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that seals string in top of plastic produce bags. Responsibilities include:
* Places bag on machine mandrel and positions string on bag with ends under holding clip.
* Depresses pedal that folds and seals hem around string at top of bag.
* Removes bag from mandrel and places it in carton.
* May examine hem for defective sealing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that glues fabric strip over back edge of unbound paper products, such as legal tablets, notebooks, and ledger paper. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust machine-head pressure plate to thickness of item being processed.
* Places roll of gummed tape on reel and threads end through feed guide and rolls.
* Turns screws to adjust tension springs that bring pressure on tape to facilitate sticking, using wrench and screwdriver.
* Starts machine and feeds items into machine feed conveyors.
* Stacks completed product on skids.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that glues fabric strip over back edge of unbound paper products, such as legal tablets, notebooks, and ledger paper. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust machine-head pressure plate to thickness of item being processed.
* Places roll of gummed tape on reel and threads end through feed guide and rolls.
* Turns screws to adjust tension springs that bring pressure on tape to facilitate sticking, using wrench and screwdriver.
* Starts machine and feeds items into machine feed conveyors.
* Stacks completed product on skids.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms opening (valve) in paper bags through which loose materials, such as cement, sugar, lime, fertilizers, and sand are poured into bag. Responsibilities include:
* Positions unsewed paper bag on machine bed between guide arms.
* Depresses pedal or moves lever to start machine that automatically creases and folds bottom of paper bag to form valve, and discharges it onto conveyor.
* May tend sleeve machine that automatically cuts and glues strips of paper (sleeves) used to close valves of filled bags.
* May tend machine that forms valve and sews ends of bags and be designated combination valving-and-sewing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends wrapping machine that glues wrappers onto box tops or box bottoms by either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Places box parts on glued wrapper and positions them under plunger of machine.
* Presses pedal to lower plunger that forces box part and wrapper down past series of brushes that seal wrapper onto box part.
* (2) Positions box parts onto glued wrappers conveyed by belt that feeds box parts into machine that smooths wrapper around box.
* May tend four corner stayer machine that folds and tapes corners of cardboard box blanks to form containers.
* May tend power shear that cuts sheets of paper to specified dimensions to form wrappers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends wrapping machine that glues wrappers onto box tops or box bottoms by either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Places box parts on glued wrapper and positions them under plunger of machine.
* Presses pedal to lower plunger that forces box part and wrapper down past series of brushes that seal wrapper onto box part.
* (2) Positions box parts onto glued wrappers conveyed by belt that feeds box parts into machine that smooths wrapper around box.
* May tend four corner stayer machine that folds and tapes corners of cardboard box blanks to form containers.
* May tend power shear that cuts sheets of paper to specified dimensions to form wrappers.
Industry:Professional careers
