- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tends power press that extracts juice from fruit. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions empty filter bags between sections of press, or places frame equipped with filter cloth (blanket) on press cart.
* Pulls lever or turns valve to release fruit from hopper or pipeline into bag openings or onto filter cloth.
* Seals tops of filled bags, using metal clamps; or spreads fruit evenly over filter cloth, folds corners of cloth to cover fruit, removes forming frame, and pushes cart loaded with fruit into press.
* Starts press.
* Removes filter bags or pulls cart from press and dumps fruit pulp residue into container.
* May start pump to transfer juice to storage tanks.
* May perform duties as member of crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends settling tanks that separate gluten from water. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to discharge gluten and water from starch tables into tank.
* Turns and adjusts inlet and outlet valves to maintain constant level in tank until water has drained from settled grain.
* Starts pump that transfers gluten to plate press. Pushes remaining gluten from tank, using squeegee, and cleans tank, using hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that clean and grade seed corn. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines and opens chute gate to permit corn to flow through series of vibrating screens.
* Adjusts chute slides to regulate flow of corn to reciprocating screens and revolving cylinders that separate corn kernels, according to width, thickness, and length.
* Examines graded kernels for uniformity, using test screen.
* Replaces defective screens and cylinders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts tobacco into granular form and screens dust and coarse particles from granulated tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor, cutting knives, fans, and screens.
* Shovels tobacco into hopper and shoves tobacco between feed rolls of machine that carry tobacco under cutting knives.
* Observes screening process and removes foreign material left in screened tobacco.
* Places boxes or trucks at discharge end of machine to catch granulated tobacco.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts tobacco into granular form and screens dust and coarse particles from granulated tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor, cutting knives, fans, and screens.
* Shovels tobacco into hopper and shoves tobacco between feed rolls of machine that carry tobacco under cutting knives.
* Observes screening process and removes foreign material left in screened tobacco.
* Places boxes or trucks at discharge end of machine to catch granulated tobacco.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grinding, drying, and cooling equipment to make grated cheese. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts grater, drying drums or drying chamber, heater, blowers, cooling cones, and hammer mill.
* Dumps cheese blocks into feedbox of grater, and starts ram that pushes cheese against grating wheel.
* Tests sample of grated cheese for moisture content, using moisture meter, and turns handles or valves to alter conveyor speed or flow of hot air in drier to obtain specified moisture content.
* Observes gauges on cooling chambers and milling hammers, and notifies supervisor of deviation from specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grinding, drying, and cooling equipment to make grated cheese. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts grater, drying drums or drying chamber, heater, blowers, cooling cones, and hammer mill.
* Dumps cheese blocks into feedbox of grater, and starts ram that pushes cheese against grating wheel.
* Tests sample of grated cheese for moisture content, using moisture meter, and turns handles or valves to alter conveyor speed or flow of hot air in drier to obtain specified moisture content.
* Observes gauges on cooling chambers and milling hammers, and notifies supervisor of deviation from specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that chops (hashes) and rinses entrails, fat, and other condemned or inedible parts of carcasses preparatory to rendering. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts hasher machine and feeds meat onto machine conveyor or into hopper by hand or using pitchfork or shovel.
* Turns valves to admit water into revolving drum of washer that rinses chopped meat.
* Dismantles and cleans machine, using wrench and water hose.
* May cut up whole carcasses, using cleaver.
* May chill pieces of fat with ice before hashing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that chops (hashes) and rinses entrails, fat, and other condemned or inedible parts of carcasses preparatory to rendering. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts hasher machine and feeds meat onto machine conveyor or into hopper by hand or using pitchfork or shovel.
* Turns valves to admit water into revolving drum of washer that rinses chopped meat.
* Dismantles and cleans machine, using wrench and water hose.
* May cut up whole carcasses, using cleaver.
* May chill pieces of fat with ice before hashing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that extracts liquid honey from combs. Respnsibilities include:
* Places decapped honeycombs in baskets of honey-extracting machine and closes cover.
* Sets clock for specified time cycle and starts extractor machine to pump honey from honeycombs to drums for storage.
* Stops machine when time bell rings.
* Removes emptied honeycombs from machine and places them in vacant supers.
* May cut caps from honeycombs.
Industry:Professional careers
