- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that wraps and cements rubberized fabric tape on bead wire used to reinforce airplane deicers. Responsibilities include:
* Loads specified reels of bead wire and rubberized fabric tape on letoff racks, and threads wire and tape through machine.
* Adjusts feed rollers and tension wheels according to specifications, using handtools.
* Pours rubber cement and powdered soapstone in dispensers and starts machine.
* Examines and feels bead wire for loose wrap.
* Cuts bead wire when windup reel is filled, using pliers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that loops tape through buckles and cuts and fuses tape ends together to fabricate brassiere slides. Responsibilities include:
* Fills machine hoppers with plastic buckles.
* Mounts rolls of tape on brackets and threads machine.
* Starts machine and observes operation for malfunctions.
* Reports malfunctions to supervisory personnel.
* Removes slides from machine following fabrication.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that binds bundles of brooms for shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Stacks specified number of brooms under ram of binding machine.
* Depresses pedal that lowers ram to compact broom heads and insert twine through heads.
* Removes brooms from machine and ties twine around heads and handles to form bundle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that cuts and shapes wire or fabric-covered wire to form bars, prongs, and buckle frames. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts forming head according to product specified, using handtools.
* Positions reel of wire on machine spindle and draws end of wire through guides to forming head.
* Inserts wire against stop and depresses treadle-switch to start machine.
* Observes automatic feeding of wire into machine or holds switch down with foot and advances wire against stop as specified item is cut, formed, and ejected.
* May pull levers of hand-bending machine to shape sample items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that cuts and shapes wire or fabric-covered wire to form bars, prongs, and buckle frames. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts forming head according to product specified, using handtools.
* Positions reel of wire on machine spindle and draws end of wire through guides to forming head.
* Inserts wire against stop and depresses treadle-switch to start machine.
* Observes automatic feeding of wire into machine or holds switch down with foot and advances wire against stop as specified item is cut, formed, and ejected.
* May pull levers of hand-bending machine to shape sample items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cast-molding machine that forms candles. Responsibilities include:
* Fills machine with liquid wax and turns valve to force steam into jackets to heat molds.
* Turns valve to transfer wax to molds.
* Scrapes flash from molds, using knife, and depresses pedal to eject candles into trays.
* Cuts candlewick ends to specified length, using knife.
* May move lever to force needles, threaded with wicks, through candles or to insert pins into candles, leaving hole for later insertion of wick.
* May imbed decorative bases in butt ends of candles during cooling.
* May insert wax cores in molds for application of final wax coating.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts and tamps washers and affixes cover to dry-cell containers (cans). Responsibilities include:
* Inserts washers and dumps caps into feeding mechanisms.
* Starts machine and observes mirror to inspect units passing on conveyor to ensure washers are at prescribed depth.
* Inspects capped cells for defects and offcenter carbon rods.
* Adjusts machine for changes in size of cans or to correct malfunction, using handtools.
* May tend machine equipped with device that cuts (punches) paper washers from tape, inserts washer, and affixes cap to can.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts and tamps washers and affixes cover to dry-cell containers (cans). Responsibilities include:
* Inserts washers and dumps caps into feeding mechanisms.
* Starts machine and observes mirror to inspect units passing on conveyor to ensure washers are at prescribed depth.
* Inspects capped cells for defects and offcenter carbon rods.
* Adjusts machine for changes in size of cans or to correct malfunction, using handtools.
* May tend machine equipped with device that cuts (punches) paper washers from tape, inserts washer, and affixes cap to can.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that wrap dry cells in plasticized material and insert and seal cells in paper tubes or metal sleeves, using any of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Installs roll of plastic film in wrapping machine equipped with sealing unit.
* Threads plastic film through feeding device to wrapping mechanism.
* Starts machine and feeds cells to machine.
* (2) Tends tubing machine, fed by turntables, that inserts metal bottom and dry cell into paper tube and crimps tube over bottom.
* (3) Tends sleeving machine, fed by turntable, that inserts tubed cell in metal sleeve and positions and crimps metal cap on sleeve.
* Inspects units for faulty crimping or sealing.
* Observes machine for malfunctions and makes adjustments, such as retiming machine, using handtools.
* May be designated according to machine tended as sleeve-machine tender; tubing-machine tender; wrapping-machine tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that apply margin of rubber or latex cement to rubberized fabric parts used in assembling rubber footwear. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine, picks up uncemented part from book, board, tray, frame, or stack and applies cement, using any of following methods:
** (1) Draws edge of workpiece between preset revolving rollers, exercising care to obtain even coating and prevent part from being misshapen.
** (2) Depresses pedal to bring rollers together on material passing between rollers.
** (3) Holds top of skirtlike upper along bottom edge between rollers to apply margin of cement all around for subsequent bonding to shoe bottom.
* Turns setscrews to adjust distances between pickup, wiper, and applicator rollers and blades to regulate amount of cement deposited.
* Places processed parts on conveyor belt or in books, frames, or stacks.
* May stack one part in another before cementing.
Industry:Professional careers
