- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends automatic and semiautomatic machines that punch holes, trim or notch envelope ends, and affix clasps, reinforcing patches, and snap fasteners and string or wire ties to envelopes. Responsibilities include:
* Turns screws to adjust guides and stops of machines, such as clasp, eyeletter, patch, tension, and thumb cut to accommodate specified size envelopes, using handtools.
* Pours clasps, eyelets, snap fasteners, or other envelope parts into machine hoppers and mounts rolls of patching or reinforcing tape on machine spindles.
* Positions envelopes on feed bed or under operating heads of machines against guides and stops.
* Depresses hand or foot levers to actuate machines.
* Removes completed envelopes and packs them in carton or box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically cuts, scores, and folds printed paper strips and staples them to matchbook combs to form matchbooks. Responsibilities include:
* Places roll of matchbook cover strip on machine spindle and threads end through machine.
* Loads machine magazine with wire staples and starts machine.
* Inserts matchbook comb strips into slots on feed conveyor that conveys them to stapling unit that fastens cover to comb strip to form matchbook.
* Observes machine operation to detect malfunction.
* Removes finished matchbooks from bin and packs specified number into boxes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically forms flat-bottomed paper drinking cups. Responsibilities include:
* Loads rolls of bottom and sidewall paper on machine.
* Threads ends of paper through rollers and forming guides, and starts machine that automatically forms paper into cups and glues seams.
* Periodically tests samples of cups for leaks.
* Places specified number of cups in tubes preparatory to packing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts interlocking slots or notches in two strips of cardboard and automatically assembles strips at right angles to form multicell partition (divider) for cardboard container. Responsibilities include:
* Loads rolls of cardboard into machine feed reels and threads cardboard through guide rolls.
* Starts machine and observes operation of feeding, slotting, cutoff, and assembly mechanisms to detect malfunctioning.
* Examines assembled partitions at discharge chute and verifies conformance to specified dimensions, using go-not-go gauges.
* Replaces worn slotting punches and dull cutoff blades, using handtools.
* May assemble slotted strips by hand to form multicell partition for cardboard container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that perforate, groove, and blast patterns on insulation board panels to form acoustical tile. Responsibilities include:
* Dumps sacks of ground walnut shell into hopper of blaster machine and moves controls to regulate flow of shell into blaster.
* Adjusts height of saws to control depth of cut, using gauge and wrench.
* Starts machines and conveyors, and spaces pattern templates on feed conveyor.
* Feeds panelboards into perforating machine, and observes perforated panels to ensure automatic positioning upon templates.
* Observes sets of panels and templates as they are conveyed into blaster machine to ensure that specified pattern or decorative design is imprinted upon panels according to template design.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts numbered paper cylinders in holes of punchboards. Responsibilities include:
* Places printed paper strips in tubular magazine and locks it in filling machine.
* Presses punchboard over pegs in plate of machine and moves lever to lower blade that cuts paper into strips and raises plate against teeth that stuffs them into punchboard holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts numbered paper cylinders in holes of punchboards. Responsibilities include:
* Places printed paper strips in tubular magazine and locks it in filling machine.
* Presses punchboard over pegs in plate of machine and moves lever to lower blade that cuts paper into strips and raises plate against teeth that stuffs them into punchboard holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically curls and cuts cardboard strips to make rings, such as those used in hat boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts rolls of cardboard on machine reel and threads strip through steaming, curling, and cutting devices.
* Starts machine and gathers and packages ejected rings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rewinder and identifies and cuts out defective sections of tape to salvage rejected rolls of paper tape. Responsibilities include:
* Places rubber belt on machine pullup to obtain desired speed ratio.
* Secures tape roll onto spindle and threads end of tape around takeup roll.
* Starts machine and observes tape winding onto roll, using knee and foot controls to regulate winding speed.
* Inspects tape for dry spots, excessive glue, creases, and holes.
* Cuts out defective areas, using scissors.
* Presses flat metal bars to each side of rough tape sections to smooth tape surface.
* Throws defective tape sections into trash bin.
* Removes tape rolls from machine and places rolls on cart for packing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that crimp rolled paper tubes to form caps and press them onto ends of other tubes to make bb shot containers. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machines, places tubes on skipped spindles by hand, and removes damaged tubes or scrap paper, using wire hook.
* Removes completed caps from machine hopper, fills shaker frame with crimped caps from hopper and starts shaker machine to arrange caps crimped-side-down.
* Examines caps and discards torn, flattened, grease-smeared, or malformed caps.
* Pushes caps into feeder tray, using t-shape pusher, and hangs loaded tray on gravity-feed station of repairer assembly machine.
* Notifies machine repairer of malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
