- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who feeds components, such as barrels, caps, cartridges, and nibs into and removes assembled pens and pencils from automatic assembly machine. Responsibilities include:
* Places components in predetermined sequence on revolving spindles or dumps components into hoppers.
* Lifts assembled pens or pencils from machine spindles and inspects for loose components.
* Places inspected units on conveyor.
* May be designated according to component or station as assembly-machine feeder; assembly-machine offbearer; cartridge feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds incandescent lamp bulbs into holders of rotating wheel of machine that carries lamp through series of gas torches to melt cement adhering to base of lamp preparatory to removal of defective bases.
* Removes lamp from holder as device rotates back to starting position and pulls base and glass bulb apart.
* Wipes excess cement from bulb and places in rack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds broomcorn into machine that removes seed or chaff and straightens fibers. Responsibilities include:
* Holds stalk and brush end of fibers against teeth of rotating cylinder to remove seed and chaff.
* May cut stems to size.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds broomcorn into machine that removes seed or chaff and straightens fibers. Responsibilities include:
* Holds stalk and brush end of fibers against teeth of rotating cylinder to remove seed and chaff.
* May cut stems to size.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who places bulb in guide of machine that automatically cuts and blows magnesium wire into alloy photoflash bulb to provide material for flashing.
* Holds open neck of each bulb over air jet to blow loose end of wire into top of bulb.
* Places bulbs on conveyor leading to sealing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machines that insert carbon rods, cap, seal, tube, and otherwise assemble dry cells. Responsibilities include:
* Removes cells or components from conveyors, containers, or cartons and places them on ramp, conveyor, dial, turntable, or into mechanism that feeds them to core tamping, capping, sealing, tubing, sleeve, or wafer machines.
* Removes units from discharge conveyor of machine and places them on other conveyor or in trays or boxes.
* May dump components into hopper of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds broomcorn stems into lever-type cutter that cuts them for use in making brooms. Responsibilities include:
* Shakes stems against table to align ends.
* Positions stems on table against gauge and depresses pedal or manually lowers blade to cut stems to specified length.
* May remove seed and straighten fibers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions stacks of floor covering pieces on bed of machine that transfers layer of pieces onto conveyor and fills spaces between pieces with floor covering material to form inlaid floor covering, following pattern guides on machine bed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds dynamite cartridge filling machine with granular or gelatin dynamite. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes buggy containing dynamite to packing machine and fills hopper, using wooden shovel.
* Sweeps spilled dynamite and broken shells from floor and shovels sweepings into boxes.
* Scrubs empty buggy with sodium carbonate solution, using brush, to neutralize remaining nitroglycerin.
* May scrub packinghouse floor with sodium carbonate solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds dynamite cartridge filling machine with granular or gelatin dynamite. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes buggy containing dynamite to packing machine and fills hopper, using wooden shovel.
* Sweeps spilled dynamite and broken shells from floor and shovels sweepings into boxes.
* Scrubs empty buggy with sodium carbonate solution, using brush, to neutralize remaining nitroglycerin.
* May scrub packinghouse floor with sodium carbonate solution.
Industry:Professional careers
