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A professional who folds cardboard box blanks along scored lines preparatory to corner staying process.
* Stacks folded blanks on worktable.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects band of adhesive on self-sealing box blank flaps to detect irregular width and faulty application. Responsibilities include:
* Removes box blanks from discharge end of box-sealing machine.
* Examines flaps to determine width of adhesive band and feels band to determine thickness of adhesive application.
* Tests strength of adhesive by sealing sample box blank flaps together and pulling them apart to determine force required to break seal.
* Notifies box-sealing-machine operator to stop machine when jamming occurs or to adjust machine controls to correct faulty adhesive application.
* Counts and stacks inspected blanks on conveyor and pushes stacks down conveyor for bundling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with shaping, cutting, scoring, joining, and otherwise machining paper and paper products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in setting up and operating machines that cut, wind, fold, crease, drill, score, slit, tape, glue, sew, corrugate, and emboss paper and paperboard to form paper products, such as boxes, cartons, bags, napkins, tissue, envelopes, folders, cards, and tablets. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order and schedules production according to machine capacities and customer requirements.
* Assigns duties to workers according to production schedule.
* Inspects sample product to ensure conformance to work order specifications.
* May train new workers.
* May set up and adjust machines.
* May inspect machines for malfunction or worn parts.
* May repair machines.
* May requisition materials and supplies.
* May supply workers with production materials.
* May operate machine in worker's absence.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws patterns and prescribes manufacturing specifications for envelopes, compiling required data from customer orders, machine capacities, and knowledge of envelope manufacturing. Responsibilities include:
* Computes size, number, and type of paper sheets needed to fill order, using trigonometry, and knowledge of paper sizes and paper cutting machines.
* Sketches layout and dimensions of envelope on cardboard, using ruler, square, and other drawing instruments.
* Selects machines, dies, tools, and compiles machine setup data for such operations as paper and die cutting, machine and hand folding, printing, paneling, and attaching fastening devices, utilizing knowledge of machines, tools, and equipment.
* Determines sequence of manufacturing operations, utilizing knowledge of types and capacities of available machines, and lists such data on layout card.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects paper and paperboard products during corrugating, laminating, printing, cutting, scoring, coating, forming, sealing, and packaging processes to ensure adherence to plant quality standards and work orders. Responsibilities include:
* Examines product for defects, such as blisters, wrinkles, improper forming and sealing, glue spots, printing overlap, and color distortions.
* Measures dimensions and thickness of product, using tape measure and automatic micrometer.
* Weighs coated and uncoated products, calculates weight of coating, and records weight data on inspection report.
* Tests mullen (burst quality of paper) and crush qualities of paper and paperboard, using mullen and crush tester, and records test results on inspection report.
* Spot-counts number of articles in bundle or shipping container to verify accuracy.
* Examines rejects to determine those that can be salvaged and routes unusable material to scrap baler.
* May be designated according to product inspected as paper-bag inspector; tube inspector; or according to phase of process as assembly inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts machines that convert, saw, corrugate, band, wrap, box, stitch, form, or seal paper or paperboard sheets into products, such as toilet tissue, towels, napkins, bags, envelopes, tubing, cartons, wax rolls, and containers, according to specifications, by any combination of following tasks. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts rolls, guides, and chutes to accommodate type of paper or paperboard fed from parent rolls or flat stock from automatic feedracks, using handtools.
* Measures, spaces, and sets saw blades, cutters, and perforators, according to product specifications, using rule, thumbscrews, and wrenches.
* Installs printing attachment to machine and makes adjustment for clarity of print.
* Threads wire through stitching head and synchronizes speed for spacing stitches.
* Installs or resets cutting dies according to work orders, using handtools.
* Operates machine for test run to verify adjustments and observes functioning of machine parts, such as gauges, elevator, belts, slip clutches, oil injectors, glue feeders, and electrical devices.
* Repairs or replaces defective parts.
* May be designated according to type of machine adjusted as bag-machine set-up operator; gluing-machine adjuster; automatic stitcher set-up operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine that automatically fits precut cardboard sections together to form complete partitions for cardboard cartons, according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts stripper bars, feed dogs, side and finger guides, back stops, and ejector bars on machine table, and receiving fingers and push bars on rotating partition assembling wheel, using rule, gauges, and wrenches.
* Adjusts timing gear settings to synchronize movement of partition sections from machine table into sections in assembling wheel, using wrench.
* Fills magazines with partition sections and starts machine.
* Observes feeding and assembling operations and adjusts machine to form partitions to specifications.
* Maintains production records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to fold corrugated paperboard box blanks and to glue, stitch (staple), or tape edges to form boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Installs feed bars and adjusts guide assembly and folding mechanism according to box blank dimensions and work order specifications, using handtools.
* Fills glue reservoir, loads automatic stapler, or threads gummed tape through applicator.
* Stacks box blanks in feed mechanism, starts machine, and observes automatic feeding and folding of box blanks and gluing, stapling, or taping of edges to detect machine malfunction.
* Inspects sample completed box to verify conformance to work order specifications and adjusts machine controls to correct variations.
* May be designated according to type of machine used as folder-gluer operator; folder-stitcher operator; folder-taper operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates cylinder press to score and cut paperboard sheets into box or container blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Installs specified chase (cutting and scoring die) on flat bed of machine, using handtools.
* Glues sheet of paperboard on machine cylinder, rotates cylinder by hand to press design of die in sheet, and cuts paperboard from around die impression on sheet, using knife, to form male portion of die.
* Starts machine and adjusts feed rollers and arms on automatic stacker, using handtools.
* Turns valves to regulate powder (talc) spray on cut-scored sheets.
* Measures cut-scored blanks to verify cutting and scoring dimensions with work order, using tape measure.
* May feed odd size paperboard sheets into machine by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
