- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends automatic machines that cut ornamental designs into face of nonmetallic button blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Loads blanks into machine hopper, using hand scoop.
* Starts machine and observes feeding, cutting, and indexing mechanisms.
* Removes jammed blanks from feed chute, using wire pick.
* May remove and replace worn cutters and abrasive wheels, using wrenches.
* May place blanks by hand in chucks of semiautomatic, manually indexed machine.
* May examine samples for finishing defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that drill thread holes and shape surface of nonmetallic button blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Loads workpieces into machine hopper, using hand scoop.
* Starts machine and observes blanks feeding into rotating chucks on transport mechanism that conveys blanks to cutting tools and drills.
* Stops machine and notifies setup mechanic of malfunction.
* May hand feed pearl button blanks into machine to ensure that blanks are positioned face-up in chucks.
* May place single blank in chuck of manually controlled machine and pull on leverage bar to force blank against cutting tool or drill.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cements and folds french binding or skived edge of shoe uppers to form smooth edge. Responsibilities include:
* Moves lever to lower machine head and guides shoe part under head to cement, fold, and press edge of upper.
* Raises and presses folded edge flat, using awl, to repair rough folds.
* May depress pedal to lower blades that notch and crease folds on curves.
* May turn knobs to regulate temperature of heating element and flow of heated plastic cement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one of various pressing machines that join precemented shoe parts, performing any of following tasks. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrew that adjusts distance between pressure rollers, feeds aligned parts between rollers, and observes joining of parts.
* Positions parts on machine bed and depresses pedal that forces heated presser head against parts to join them.
* Moves lever that adjusts contour of pad on lower jaw of machine or changes pad, following contour of parts to be joined.
* Positions parts on pad and depresses pedal that closes jaws to join parts.
* Positions cemented parts on shoe and places shoe in oven to soften cement.
* Positions shoe parts on bed of machine and moves lever to start machine that presses and cements parts.
* May bound toe and shank area of shoe to improve adhesion or waterproofing strip to inner and outer sole parts, using hammer.
* May brush solvent on precemented parts to soften cement prior to joining parts.
* May apply cement to parts.
* May be designated according to parts joined as insole coverer; insole-lip turner; platform presser; sole layer.
* May tend machine that uses conveyor-carried air inflated pads to join precemented parts and be designated compo-conveyor operator.
* May be designated: heel layer; insole taper; open-shank coverer; welt-sole layer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends punch press that punches center holes in phonograph records or stamper. Responsibilities include:
* Removes stack of records or stampers from conveyor and places them on machine holder.
* Positions record in slot over punch die of machine or centers disk under punch die, using calibrated microscope and starts machine.
* Removes punched record, and simultaneously positions unpunched record in machine or removes and places stamper on sanding spindle for further processing.
* Places punched records in trays.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that flares slit in preslit edge of shoe outsoles to form channel and facilitate stitching of welt to outsole.
* Pushes and guides edge of outsole against tapered revolving roller to flare slit.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that flares slit in preslit edge of shoe outsoles to form channel and facilitate stitching of welt to outsole.
* Pushes and guides edge of outsole against tapered revolving roller to flare slit.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts two parallel grooves near edge of insole prior to welting. Responsibilities include:
* Positions insole against machine guide.
* Depresses pedal to raise machine bed against cutting blades that cut grooves (channels) in insole.
* Adjusts lever to control width of cut, following work ticket.
* May turn handwheel to regulate speed of cutting blades.
* May tend machine to bevel outer edge of insole.
* May channel outsoles and be designated outsole channeler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends heating equipment and hydraulic casting press that casts plastic contact lenses. Responsibilities include:
* Lays separate top and bottom sections of previously set up mold on heated metal block for specified time.
* Fills lens cavities in heated mold with plastic powder.
* Aligns guide pins and holes to join top and bottom sections of mold.
* Places filled mold on bed of press, sets timer, and starts press to lower ram until dial indicates mold sections are under specified pressure.
* Removes mold from press.
* Inspects first run of lenses to verify accuracy of lens power, using power determining and optical centering instrument.
* Reports defects in new molds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts counters for shoes from leather, fiberboard, or other materials. Responsibilities include:
* Selects materials and cutting dies according to work ticket.
* Positions leather, sheets of fiberboard, or other material on bed under beam of machine.
* Positions die on material to obtain maximum number of parts.
* Depresses pedal to lower beam onto top of die, cutting out counters.
Industry:Professional careers
