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A professional who tends edging machine that automatically pencil edges circular mirrors or glass used as table tops. Responsibilities include:
* Places template over workpiece and marks center of workpiece, using red pencil.
* Moves switch levers to start suction pump and circle edging machine and turns valve to start flow of water to edging wheels.
* Centers workpiece on suction cup of edging machine and depresses pedal to activate suction cup that locks workpiece into place.
* Raises foot-controlled lever to engage motorized edging wheels to edge of workpiece and presses button to start revolving of workpiece against edging wheels to form pencil edge on workpiece.
* Observes pencil edging process to ensure specified dimensions and to prevent breakage of workpiece caused by improper setting of motorized edging wheels.
* Turns bolts to loosen motors, using wrench, and slides motors on tracks to correct setting.
* Feels edge of mirror or glass to verify smoothness.
* Removes workpiece from suction cup when edging is complete and places workpiece on rack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that rounds edges of pearl button blanks and forms convex surface on back of blank. Responsibilities include:
* Places blanks face down in automatic chucks of feed mechanism that forces blanks against abrasive wheel shaped to produce convex surface.
* May tend convex-grinding machine to form studs on backs of buttons, or to shape button faces.
* May place single blank in chuck of manually controlled convexing machine and pull on leverage bar to force blank against abrasive wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that pulverizes industrial bort and separates particles into grades of diamond powder. Responsibilities include:
* Pours bort into ball mill and starts machine to grind bort.
* Removes powder from mill and pours it through sieves to separate particles.
* Pours sifted particles into glass tank containing chemical mixture.
* Siphons liquid containing particles from tank after specified time into glass jars.
* Siphons liquid, following settlement of particles, from top of jars.
* Dumps particles onto table and dries them with infrared lamp.
* Weighs and bottles powder and labels containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends multistation glassware cutting machine that engraves designs in sequence on glassware. Responsibilities include:
* Presses buttons to start machine and turns valves to start flow of coolant.
* Places mouth of glassware on indexing spindle located between cutting wheels and sets base of ware on rest.
* Loads and unloads machine in specific sequence to engrave design on outside of ware.
* Removes and inspects completed ware for defects and places ware in tray.
* Notifies supervisor of machine malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more grinding machines that cut finger grips (grooves) in sliding glass doors. Responsibilities include:
* Sets guide rails and stops to control length, centering, and depth of cut, using wrenches, setscrews, and measuring tape.
* Turns valve to start flow of water to grinding wheel, and flips switch to start machine.
* Positions glass on table against stops and guide rails under cutting wheel and pushes or pulls lever to lower rotating cutting wheel to surface of glass and to raise cutting wheel when groove is ground.
* May set micro-switch that raises wheel automatically when specified depth of groove is obtained.
* May install cutting wheels on spindles, using wrench.
* May dress grinding wheels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically smooths and cleans edges of ceramic flatware preparatory to firing ware in kiln. Responsibilities include:
* Selects rubber cushion rings according to ware being furnished and positions rings on vacuum cradle on machine turntable.
* Inserts abrasive pads in adjustable arms that press pads against revolving ware and positions sponge belts on rotating machine spindles to clean ware after smoothing.
* Tightens coupling on water hose to water tank connection and turns valve to start and regulate flow of water onto sponge belts to maintain moisture content of belt.
* Pushes button to start machine and turns dial to regulate speed of turntable according to size ware being processed.
* Observes machine operation and product to detect need for machine adjustment.
* Removes and replaces ware at machine to maintain continuous work flow.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts ventilating (cooling) grooves in asbestos brake linings. Responsibilities include:
* Positions tension rollers and guides on machine according to size of brake linings specified on work order, using handcrank, measuring scale, and screwdriver.
* Turns handwheel to position abrasive grooving wheel for specified depth of cut.
* Pushes button to start machine and feeds lining into machine and observes lining for surface or grooving defects.
* Measures depth, width, and position of groove, using template, and adjusts machine as required.
* Discards linings not meeting specifications and places acceptable linings in rack.
* Records production data on work order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that grind interior walls of glass tubes. Responsibilities include:
* Brushes abrasive paste onto abrading rods.
* Inserts tubes in holders and slides holders over abrading rods.
* Pushes bar to lower indexing wheels onto tube holders and starts machine.
* Stops machine after specified time and removes tubes and holders.
* Rinses tubes in water tank to remove compound.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grinds notch in edge of glass dial blank as reference point for assembling, using abrasive grinding wheel. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts blank in sliding jig and aligns mark on blank with grinding wheel.
* Starts machine and pushes jig into rotating wheel.
* Pulls jig back and removes notched blank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that rough grind surfaces of lens blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts block with mounted lens to rotating spindle of stone-roughing machine, and releases lever of feed mechanism that places lens block against revolving grindstone.
* Sets feed mechanism by adjusting setscrew controlling position of spindle.
* Removes lens block after specified period of time, and inspects lens for conformance to specifications.
* May turn valve to regulate flow of water over grindstone.
Industry:Professional careers
