- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who sets precious, semiprecious, or ornamental stones in rings, earrings, bracelets, brooches, metal optical frames, and other jeweled items, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Places item in vise.
* Cuts and files setting to accommodate stones, using files, chisels, and hand or electric drills.
* Positions stone in setting and fixes in place by pressing prongs around stone, by raising retaining metal ridge around stone, or by tapping edges of setting with setting tool and hammer, forcing metal against stone.
* Smooths edges, using emery file and pointed steel tool.
* Examines union of stone and setting, using magnifying glass.
* May drill holes in settings preparatory to setting stones in piece.
* May replace stones in rings.
* May be designated according to stone set as diamond setter or according to item worked on as metal optical frames stone setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes excess paint from metal stampings to bring out etched or embossed pattern or lettering, by rubbing surface of pattern with cloth and solvent. Responsibilities include:
* Separates stampings that are scratched or marred, or that have been imperfectly finished.
* May apply paint to unpainted areas of stampings overlooked during painting process, using brush.
* May remove masking compound from specified areas of metal parts to be chemically etched, using template outline and knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches hands to faces of clocks and watches. Responsibilities include:
* Places movement in holding fixture of hand staking tool.
* Positions hour hand on hour wheel and forces hand over arbor to secure friction tight fit, using staking punch.
* Positions minute hand over cannon pinion of minute wheel and secures fit, using staking punch.
* Aligns hour hand with specified hour marking, and minute hand with numeral twelve.
* Bends tips of hands with tweezers to conform to curvature of dial.
* Presses second hand over fourth wheel arbor and secures fit.
* Winds watch and observes movement of hands to determine specified clearance between hands, dial, and crystal.
* Observes and handles minute parts, using loupe and tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends riveting machine that rivets together parts fabricated from materials, such as plastic, cloth, or leather. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns holes of workpieces.
* Inserts rivet shank through holes or onto anvil of machine.
* Positions rivet or holes of workpieces over anvil or against fixtures.
* Presses pedal to lower ram that expands rivet shank and clinches workpieces together.
* Fills hopper with rivets when tending automatic machine that positions rivets over anvil.
* May tend machine equipped with rotating die and be designated rivet spinner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in production of coin-vending machines. Responsibilities include:
* Selects dies or cutting tools, according to design of metal or plastic part to be formed.
* Sets up automatic equipment, such as forming press, punch press, and power shear.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and repairs rejected tin cans and tin-can parts. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects parts for defects, such as scratches, dents, nicks, and punctures, and sorts parts according to type of defect.
* Places can parts over die of straightening fixture and depresses pedal that forces curving plate against die to remove dents or places can body over form and reshapes flanges and side walls, using rubber hammer.
* Tests cans for leaks, using pressure tester.
* Solders holes in seams, using gas flame and hand-soldering iron.
* Cleans can parts with damp cloth, water, or solvent.
* Records source, type, and disposition of reprocessed cans and places cans and can parts in carton.
* Weighs scrap and routes scrap to salvage department.
* May observe decorated cans emerging from oven and remove cans with defects, such as faulty printing, malformed seams, or foreign materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists gas-regulator repairer in repair and installation of regulators, relief valves, and related equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Dismantles and cleans regulators preparatory to repair.
* Performs regulator pressure-tests as directed.
* Cuts, threads, and joins pipe sections and fittings to fabricate pipe assemblies to be installed in regulating stations by other workers.
* Drives truck to haul tools and equipment to regulator station.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates artificial glass eyes for humans according to physician's prescription or customer specifications, applying knowledge of glass blowing and fabricating techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Holds and turns glass tube over gas burner to soften glass to viscous state.
* Blows into tube to form globe.
* Superimposes glass of required color on top surface of bulb to form iris.
* Fuses black glass in center of iris to simulate pupil and fuses clear glass over iris to form cornea.
* Positions and fuses red glass threads on globe to produce veins of eyeball.
* Fits artificial glass eyes to patients and makes adjustments for cosmetic correction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gauges length and degree of curvature of level glasses (vials), using gauge indicator, and sorts or rejects them according to differences in values. Responsibilities include:
* Positions vial against indicator button in fixture of machine.
* Observes point of maximum curve of vial on gauge indicator and rejects vials that do not fall within specified degrees.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects machined watch parts to ensure that hole locations, contour measurements, and shapes conform, within prescribed tolerances, to blueprint specifications, using coordinate measuring machine (precision optical device) and working to tolerances of up to 0.00001 inch. Responsibilities include:
* Places watch part on viewing table of projector, adjusts focus of projector, and installs glass chart on viewing screen preparatory to inspection.
* Aligns part with specified locations or measurement points on chart and examines projected enlargement to determine if hole locations, contour, and shape of part fall within tolerance lines etched on chart.
* Positions part on microscope table of coordinate measuring machine to reexamine part and to obtain precise coordinate measurements.
* Observes part through microscope and adjusts calibrated controls of measuring machine to center watch part and to determine vertical and horizontal measurements.
* Compares readings with chart and blueprint specifications and calculates differences between readings and specifications.
* Records inspection data and interprets findings to supervisory personnel.
* May operate coordinate measuring machine equipped with spotting and scribing device to locate, spot, and scribe tool, gauge, fixture, and die blanks and be designated tool room location-and-measurement technician.
Industry:Professional careers
