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casing-machine operator

A professional who tends machine that applies flavoring or casing fluid to chewing or smoking tobacco, by either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:

  • (1) Starts machine, pours fluid into trough of machine.
  • Forks or shovels tobacco into hopper or onto conveyor that carries tobacco through revolving drum immersed in fluid or under spraying device.
  • (2) Turns valves and starts pumps to transfer fluid from storage tank to spray tank and to spray fluid on tobacco passing under sprayer on conveyor or fed into revolving drum.
  • Opens valve to admit steam to jacket of spray tank to heat fluid to specified temperature.
  • May remove excess fluid from tobacco.
  • May tend grinders that grind menthol crystals and add menthol to casing fluid.
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