- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that shapes sides or cambers (arches) of wooden or foam core blanks or plastic base strips used in ski manufacturing. Responsibilities include:
* Installs specified cutter heads, templates, and guides according to work order, using handtools.
* Starts machine that shapes core blanks or plastic base strips, following template contours.
* May be designated according to operation performed as sides core shaper; top core shaper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts and glues cork, paper, plastic, or aluminum foil in bottlecap shells. Responsibilities include:
* Pours glue into pot.
* Turns valves to adjust gas flame for heating glue and to regulate flow of glue into machine.
* Mounts roll of lining material on machine spindle and starts machine.
* Observes discs and shells flowing from hopper into machine and pries jammed discs or shells loose, using poker.
* Examines glued shells on conveyor and rejects bent shells and offcenter or chipped discs.
* Pries glued disk from sample shell, using pick, observes quantity and texture of glue on sample, and adjusts valves to maintain specified temperature and rate of flow of glue.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds wire onto drum to form electric heating elements for airplane deicers. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns and tapes precut sheet of fabric on drum of machine.
* Determines location of element parts on fabric and length of element wires, using template.
* Tapes braided wire connections and solders strips to fabric in specified locations.
* Brushes rubber cement on fabric, and threads wire into machine.
* Turns dials to adjust machine that crimps and spaces element wires during winding, and starts machine.
* Cuts element wires to specified length and tapes ends of wires to fabric.
* Verifies length and spacing of element wires with rule.
* Counts number of wires specified for sections of element, and pulls off excess wires.
* Solders parts, such as bus bars and braided connections to element wires, using soldering iron.
* Cuts fabric, containing formed element, from drum of machine, using scissors, and lays element on stockrack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that inlays glass, metal, and plastic figures into pocket knives, money clips, key cases, gearshift balls, and other products. Responsibilities include:
* Places product in gas furnace to soften it.
* Removes product from furnace, using tongs.
* Places article on machine and depresses pedal to lower ram that indents surface of article.
* Inserts figure into surface indentation of article by hand or by machine.
* May tend machine that stamps design on face of article.
* May be designated according to kind of substance inlaid as silver inlayer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends dielectric press that bonds together and embosses materials, such as vinyl and fiber panels used for decorating motor vehicle interiors. Responsibilities include:
* Places layers of fiber panel, packing, and vinyl in tray on table of press.
* Pushes tray under ram of press.
* Pushes button to lower ram and start dielectric action that bonds vinyl and fiber panels.
* Pulls tray from press at end of cycle, and removes assembled panel.
* May tend machine that automatically feeds tray to and from press bed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends crimping presses that crimp and finish ends of filled dynamite cartridges. Responsibilities include:
* Installs specified crimping dies and adjusts table as directed, according to diameter and length of cartridges being crimped.
* Places single cartridges or shuttle (forming block) of cartridges on table under dies, starts machine, and depresses pedal to crimp cartridges.
* Stacks finished cartridges in case-house buggy (cart).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that winds, cuts and prints lines on unexposed film, loads film into cartridges, and seals and packages cartridges for shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Loads automatic units with film, labels, backing paper, and cartridges.
* Observes operations for jams and malfunctions.
* Adjusts mechanisms, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that punches out disks of waterproof paper and presses them over open end of loaded primer cups to seal out moisture. Responsibilities include:
* Positions specially holed plate containing loaded primer cups in holding fixture of feed table and starts machine.
* Removes plate when machine automatically stops.
* May examine sealed primer cups and remove defective ones from plate, using fingers, metal pick, or wax-tipped stick.
* May load machine with rolls of paper tape.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that binds evergreen and conifer twigs with wire to make garlands and wreath stock. Responsibilities include:
* Places spool of wire on machine feed spindle and threads wire between crimping gears and through guides to wrapping chamber.
* Adjusts meter of measuring device that rings bell as specified lengths of garland are formed.
* Starts machine, inserts ends of twigs into wrapping chamber, and depresses pedal to actuate mechanism that binds twigs into continuous strand of garland.
* Cuts garland to specified length with wire cutters and places them on table or conveyor.
* May bend lengths of garland into circle, twist wire ends together, and tie ribbon bow over wire joint to form wreaths.
* When concerned only with making wreaths, is designated wreath-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that places pencil leads in grooves of wooden slats and cements slats together to form pencil blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Places pencil leads and wooden slats in feed hoppers of machine.
* Fills reservoirs of machine with cement.
* Starts machine that automatically applies cement to grooved surface of slats, places lead in grooves and joins cemented slats to form blank.
* Stops machine and removes jammed slats or leads.
Industry:Professional careers
