- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that sort button blanks according to thickness. Responsibilities include:
* Loads blanks into machine hopper, using hand scoop.
* Starts machine that sorts blanks and drops them into separate containers beneath machine.
* Removes filled containers and carries them to inspection department or storage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that sort button blanks according to thickness. Responsibilities include:
* Loads blanks into machine hopper, using hand scoop.
* Starts machine that sorts blanks and drops them into separate containers beneath machine.
* Removes filled containers and carries them to inspection department or storage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically wraps paper cord or cellophane tape around wire or cord to be used as handles for shopping bags, beverage stirring sticks, and other purposes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine and injection equipment that line dry-cell battery cans with liquid paste that serves as separator between anode (can) and cathode (core) and as reservoir for portion of electrolyte. Responsibilities include:
* Turns valve to open paste line and admit paste to reservoir of injection device.
* Starts machine and feeds unlined cans into openings in dial-type holder that positions cans to receive injection of measured amount of paste and spins cans to distribute paste evenly.
* Pushes unlined cans into opening to eject lined cans, dropping them onto conveyor belt leading to dryer.
* Removes excess paste from face of dial, using hand scraper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends stapling machine that staples padding to innerspring mattress assemblies. Responsibilities include:
* Loads spool of wire into machine.
* Places spring assembly on table, spreads precut padding on top of spring and positions them under head of machine.
* Starts machine and holds padding on spring as machine moves around table.
* May staple padding to spring assembly, using stationary stapling machine or hand stapler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends stapling machine that staples padding to innerspring mattress assemblies. Responsibilities include:
* Loads spool of wire into machine.
* Places spring assembly on table, spreads precut padding on top of spring and positions them under head of machine.
* Starts machine and holds padding on spring as machine moves around table.
* May staple padding to spring assembly, using stationary stapling machine or hand stapler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that staples together parts of products made from materials, such as plastic, paper, leather, felt, and canvas. Responsibilities include:
* Loads machine with wire staples or spool of wire, and positions material under head of machine.
* Steps on pedal to lower ram that cuts off wire staple and forces it through material to clinch it together.
* May adjust machine table to accommodate different sizes of materials being stapled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that staples together parts of products made from materials, such as plastic, paper, leather, felt, and canvas. Responsibilities include:
* Loads machine with wire staples or spool of wire, and positions material under head of machine.
* Steps on pedal to lower ram that cuts off wire staple and forces it through material to clinch it together.
* May adjust machine table to accommodate different sizes of materials being stapled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic press that attaches metal stops to slide fastener stringers. Responsibilities include:
* Fills machine hopper with stops.
* Inserts stringer between press jaws and depresses pedal to drive prongs of stop through tape.
* Pulls chain through dies to machine stop to position stringer for next stroke.
* Picks jammed or defective stops from feeder tube, or hopper, using metal pick or tweezers.
* May tend machine that automatically punches, forms, and attaches stop to stringer.
* May hold zipper on anvil of power press by hand and depress pedal to attach stops to individual zipper.
* May be designated according to location of stop as bottom-stop attacher; top-stop attacher.
* May attach hardware to zipper and be designated according to type of hardware attached as box attacher; bridge attacher; pin attacher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that coats cloth tape with abrasive compound for use in polishing roller bearings. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts reel of tape of specified size onto machine spindle, and adjusts feed guide to accommodate tape.
* Fills machine cylinder with abrasive compound, and threads tape through cylinder and onto winding spindle.
* Scrapes excess compound from coated tape.
Industry:Professional careers
