- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends automatic machine that bales rubber pellets. Responsibilities include:
* Observes machine compressing, wrapping, and sealing rubber pellets into bales.
* Reads meters to verify weights of bales.
* Observes coating mechanism and distribution of dope, talc, or film on bales.
* Removes wet bales from machines.
* Examines metal detector and wrapping mechanism for defects.
* Turns valves and presses button that resets baling operations when automatic controls malfunction.
* May tend automatic machine that stacks bales on pallets for storage or shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts cured rubber tubing into rubberbands. Responsibilities include:
* Changes gears that regulate speed of cutting machine feed rolls, using handtools.
* Rinses tubing in water to facilitate cutting and guides tubes into feed rolls.
* Starts machine that cuts tubing into bands and blows bands from machine to conveyor that drops bands into tote box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms rubber strips into tubing used to produce rubberbands. Responsibilities include:
* Sets and adjusts guides, knives, seam hammer, and cement roller on band machine to form and cut tubing to specified length.
* Lifts and positions roll of rubber stripping on letoff rack. Pulls end of rubber strip from roll, places on conveyor, and threads through machine.
* Starts machine and observes operation.
* Measures tubing to ensure that specifications are met.
* Dumps soapstone into blower unit that dusts tubing to prevent sticking.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bottom-pressing machine that smooths wrinkles from bottom of lasted shoe upper. Responsibilities include:
* Turns contour-control dial to adjust shape of heated pressing plate according to specifications stamped on last.
* Inserts guide jack pin of machine into last, and places lasted shoe on heated pressing plate.
* Depresses pedal to lower guide jack that presses lasted shoe against pressing plate.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends buffing machine that removes scratches and polishes surface of bowling balls. Responsibilities include:
* Places ball in holding fixture, pad, or cup of buffer and coats buffing wheel and pad with abrasive compound.
* Changes position of ball against revolving wheel to remove grinding and sanding scratches on surface of ball.
* Removes ball after specified time and holds ball against finish buffing wheel, moving ball with hands to expose all surfaces to wheel.
* Examines ball for scratches and specified finish.
* May dress ball with waterproof sandpaper or rubbing compound to remove nicks, pits, and scratches prior to engraving or polishing and be designated bowling balls hand finisher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints brand name on rubber hose. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts specified printing plate on machine fixture.
* Adjusts guides and feed rollers to accommodate hose, using wrench.
* Fills feed tank with specified color ink and starts machine.
* Lifts hose to table by hand or with hoist and starts hose into feed rollers.
* Examines hose to ensure that printing meets specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that prints brand name on rubber hose. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts specified printing plate on machine fixture.
* Adjusts guides and feed rollers to accommodate hose, using wrench.
* Fills feed tank with specified color ink and starts machine.
* Lifts hose to table by hand or with hoist and starts hose into feed rollers.
* Examines hose to ensure that printing meets specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends pair of automatic machines that grind edges of soles to remove sprues left by molding and roughen edges for foxing. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machines.
* Depresses pedal of first machine to separate toothed feeder wheels.
* Clamps sole between wheels and against rotating, vertical buffing wheel that grinds excess material from sole edge as feeder wheels automatically turn sole.
* Observes sole edge after one rotation for complete removal of sprue and removes sole or leaves sole on for second turn.
* Loads second machine while first is operating and alternates between both.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends buffing machine equipped with inflated pad that buffs shoe soles. Responsibilities include:
* Presses sole against inflated buffing pad which scours and smooths shank and breast.
* Removes worn pads, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machines that cut ornamental designs into face of nonmetallic button blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Loads blanks into machine hopper, using hand scoop.
* Starts machine and observes feeding, cutting, and indexing mechanisms.
* Removes jammed blanks from feed chute, using wire pick.
* May remove and replace worn cutters and abrasive wheels, using wrenches.
* May place blanks by hand in chucks of semiautomatic, manually indexed machine.
* May examine samples for finishing defects.
Industry:Professional careers
