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glass-unloading-equipment tender
A professional who tends automatic vacuum crane that removes lites of glass from cutoff machine conveyor. Responsibilities include:
- Turns valves to activate vacuum cups on crane that hold glass during unloading-stacking cycle, and starts crane.
- Inspects glass for spalls (rough edges) as glass passes on conveyor.
- Trims spalls from glass with glass-cutting wheel and notifies glass-cutting-machine operator, automatic of glass condition for correction.
- Stops crane cycle to allow passage of broken or defective glass from conveyor into cullet waste glass chute.
- Counts glass stacked on turntable, and pushes switch to move turntable to next loading station.
- May use spotlight to highlight defects in glass.
- May work as member of team.
- May load lites on automatic, multicutting machine to cut lites into sections, using automatic vacuum-cupped crane, and be designated glass-loading-equipment tender.
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