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A professional who feeds composition cork sheet into machine that slices sheet to specified widths.
* Removes and packs sliced products in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam or hydraulically powered chisel that splits wooden blocks into bolts used for making shingles or shakes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions block on machine table and turns block for splitting, according to grain pattern, knots, and defective sections of block.
* Moves lever or pedal to raise block against cutter knife or drop chisel on block.
* Places split blocks or bolts on conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that splits slabs or blocks of composition corkboard into sheet of specified thickness. Responsibilities include:
* Sets dial gauge or turns handwheels to set rollers at specified distance from each other and from endless belt knife, to cut sheet of prescribed thickness.
* Places slab or block on roller conveyor that moves it to automatic feeding mechanism or pushes slab or block into roller opening that forces it against knife to cut sheet.
* Measures sheet with dial indicator or snap gauge and makes machine adjustment to meet thickness specifications.
* Repositions slab or block for each succeeding cut and stacks sheets.
* May adjust grinding wheel that sharpens knife, using wrench.
* May place slabs or blocks and sheets in steam-heated oven to condition them for cutting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts staves or strips for slat baskets from sheets of veneer. Responsibilities include:
* Turns nuts, using handtools, to adjust frequency of clipping blade descent onto veneer sheet.
* Starts conveyor to carry veneer sheets under knife that automatically cuts sheets into staves or strips.
* Removes staves or strips from machine and examines them for defects and conformance to standards, using ruler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends drop-knife clipping machine that cuts veneer sheets to specified size and cuts out defective sections. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts veneer from cart onto feed table of clipping machine.
* Examines veneer for defects, such as knots and splits.
* Positions veneer under drop knife with edge of material at measured distance from knife, using ruler, to obtain cuts of desirable grain pattern and specified width and length that are free of defects.
* Pushes button, presses pedal, or moves lever to release knife-locking device and actuate knife.
* Slides veneer around on table or turns handwheel to reposition veneer after each cut until veneer is clipped to size and free of defects.
* Stacks clipped veneer on table or handtruck.
* Records number of sheets in each stack on work ticket or on top sheet of stack.
* Cleans and lubricates machine, using airhose and grease gun.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds wooden blocks into machine that cuts blocks into match sticks. Responsibilities include:
* Splits blocks into specified lengths, using hatchet.
* Places blocks grain up on machine feed table and pushes blocks into feed rollers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and breaks veneer sheets discharged from rotary lathe into specified lengths or at points of imperfection, such as holes, splits, and discolorations.
* Discards waste veneer into handtruck or onto conveyor that carries it to hog mill for grinding into fuel wood.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes green veneer sheets from conveyor and stacks sheets on designated carts according to grain pattern and size. Responsibilities include:
* Observes veneer sheets to identify grain pattern, size, and quality.
* Removes veneer sheets from conveyor and stacks sheet on designated carts according to grain pattern.
* Pushes loaded cart to pickup area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes green veneer sheets from conveyor and stacks sheets on designated carts according to grain pattern and size. Responsibilities include:
* Observes veneer sheets to identify grain pattern, size, and quality.
* Removes veneer sheets from conveyor and stacks sheet on designated carts according to grain pattern.
* Pushes loaded cart to pickup area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions veneer blocks (logs cut to length) between spindles of veneer lathe, using electric hoist. Responsibilities include:
* Measures diameter of block to locate and mark center, using ruler.
* Examines end of log to detect rot, cracks, and splits.
* Selects chuck of minimum diameter according to size and condition of block, and places block on lathe spindle.
* Secures hooks to ends of block, activates hoist to suspend block between lathe chucks, and signals veneer-lathe operator to press chucks into block.
* Removes knots, dirt, and other foreign matter, using ax, steam hose, and pick.
* May assist in chaining lathe knives.
* May operate lathe-charging-machine from console to position logs for automatic loading into rotary veneer lathe.
* May be designated according to type of log peeled as flitch hanger.
Industry:Professional careers
