- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who operates machine to wind plastic material onto reel and cut wound material into lengths for use in making articles, such as curtains, draperies, and table covers. Responsibilities include:
* Positions roll of plastic material on machine brackets, threads end of material through tension rollers, and clamps or tapes material to rod on reel.
* Turns handwheel or loosens bolts and moves rods to increase or decrease diameter of reel according to length specified for material.
* Depresses pedal to start, stop, and control speed of machine.
* Observes material as it winds on reel to detect uneven winding and straightens uneven edges by hand.
* Stops machine at specified intervals during winding cycle and cuts material on reel by drawing knife through slot in reel rod.
* Removes lengths of material from reel.
* May operate machine equipped with knives to slit material in specified widths as it winds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates press to emboss designs on molded hard-surface floor covering. Responsibilities include:
* Installs press pads and embossing plate on press, using handtools.
* Places molded hard-surface floor covering in press at designated point on pattern to make crosswise alignment of material with embossing plate and lengthwise alignment with press guidelines.
* Regulates controls to move material into press and to actuate plate.
* Examines floor covering after each impression to detect embossing defects.
* Changes press pads and adjusts temperature and pressing cycle to improve impression.
* Observes pressure gauges and guide markers as material progresses through press to ensure maintenance of required pressure and alignment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine that automatically cuts strips of foxing from continuous sheeting of rubber coated fabric and drops them onto conveyor belt for making into books. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes a-frame, containing reel of sheeting, and empty takeup reel in front of machine.
* Attaches caster-mounted driving motor to end of takeup reel shaft, using collar and wrench.
* Threads sheeting through series of holddown bars and rollers to cutting blades.
* Adjusts angle of diagonal, scissors-like blades to increase or decrease length of foxing strip according to work ticket specifications.
* Regulates rate of feed of sheeting to adjust width of strip.
* Turns valves to drip water onto blades for lubrication and starts machine.
* Cuts into edge of sheeting on each side, using knife, and pulls off strips of uneven selvages to provide straight even edges to cut foxing.
* Measures samples of foxing for conformance to length, width, and thickness specifications, using steel tape and dial micrometer.
* Adjusts machine by trial and error to produce acceptable foxing.
* Cuts across sheeting and wrapper, using knife, when sufficient quantity of foxing has been booked.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to trim and shape breast of leather heels according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Sharpens cutting blade on grinding wheel and locks blade to ram of machine with wrench.
* Turns wheel to adjust cutting stroke of machine to height of heel.
* Sets lasted shoe on movable pin jack and pushes pin jack under or against cutting blade to trim and shape heel.
* May buff heel to prepare for varnishing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to cut heel seat of leather sole preparatory to mounting heel. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts guides and stops on machine by using sample wood heel and handtools.
* Adjusts rotary cutting blade on machine for specified width, depth, and bevel, using wrench and rule.
* Starts machine and positions shoe between guides.
* Pushes shoe into machine that makes marginal cut around heel seat to provide snug fit when heel is attached.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates press that automatically cuts soles for rubber footwear from slabs of cork or crepe. Responsibilities include:
* Selects numbered die plate from storage rack according to size and style numbers on worksheet and places die in preheated oven for designated time.
* Removes heated dies from oven and slides dies into die holder of press.
* Switches on current to keep dies hot and starts press and conveyor belt.
* Positions slab of stock on conveyor belt that carries stock between reciprocating dies and press table to cut soles from slab.
* Lifts and discards web (scrap stock) from cut out soles.
* Maintains tally of work performed on report form.
* May heat dies, replenishing oven according to sequence on work ticket, and be designated hot-die picker; or may feed slabs and remove web and be designated hot-die-press feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to form and attach ornamental putty designs to picture frame moldings. Responsibilities include:
* Measures out, heats, and mixes rosin, linseed oil, glue, and water to make putty.
* Installs specified die roller in machine and adjusts die, guides, and scrapers, using handtools.
* Pours putty into feed hopper and starts machine.
* Places molding on feed roller and observes feeding, shaping, and attaching of putty to molding.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates planishing press to impart finish to plastic sheets. Responsibilities include:
* Selects metal plates according to finish desired.
* Places plastic sheets between metal planishing plates.
* Slides plates into platens of hydraulic press.
* Moves controls or inserts circular graph into controlling mechanism of press to heat press to specified temperature and compress plastic sheets between plates.
* Removes plates from platens after specified time and strips plastic sheets from metal plates, using knife.
* Examines sheets for defects.
* Cleans metal plates, using cloths, solvents, or scrapers, or dips plates into vat of hot water, using chain hoist.
* May adjust heat and pressure controls.
* May be designated according to purpose of pressing as sheet straightener.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to roll rings on mouths of balloons prior to curing. Responsibilities include:
* Spaces parallel revolving brush arms of machine to correspond with neck size of balloon forms.
* Turns wheel to adjust height of turntable that holds form board, and to align brushes with edge of latex of forms.
* Pushes machine forward to roll latex on forms into rings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to mold outsoles or insoles to conform to shoe last at shank and arch. Responsibilities include:
* Turns thumbscrews or moves lever along calibrated dial to adjust last and size guides to specifications.
* Sponges grained surface of sole at arch to soften leather.
* Positions sole on die and against guides.
* Pulls lever to lower mold that presses sole against die, shaping arch and shank.
* Replaces dies and molds when last or shoe sizes change.
Industry:Professional careers
