- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who feeds wood chips and soda ash or acid into digester that processes wood chips into pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Unbolts and removes digester cover, using wrench and chain hoist.
* Lowers feed pipe into digester, using hoist, and pushes button or turns handwheel to load digester with wood chips.
* Pushes control panel button or turns valve to admit specified quantities of soda ash or acid into digester.
* Replaces and bolts cover.
* May remove cover and blow steam from digester at completion of cooking cycle.
* May tend conveyors that convey chips to hopper or cooked pulp to storage bins.
* May open valves to blow cooked pulp into pit.
* May pull lever to dump cooked pulp from rotary digester.
* May draw and deliver pulp sample to laboratory for analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps paper cones treated with solution of turpentine and beeswax into drying cabinet and starts fan.
* Rakes cones from cabinet after specified drying time.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dries phonograph labels in oven for use by record-press section. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains specified labels from stock and spreads them on drying racks of oven.
* Turns dial of automatic timer to start drying cycle.
* Removes dried labels from racks and separates labels by title.
* Stacks labels on warming plates near record presses, according to production schedule.
* Collects, sorts, and returns unused labels to storage at end of shift.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment to bleach pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps and adjusts controls to regulate flow of pulp to chlorination towers, bleaching and soaking tanks, and pulp washers, according to specified bleaching sequence.
* Opens valves to allow metered flow of such chemicals as liquid and gaseous chlorine, sulfur dioxide gas, caustic soda, hypochlorite, and peroxide into pulp, according to bleaching specifications.
* Starts agitators to mix pulp and chemicals.
* Tends cylinder washers to wash soluble impurities and excess bleach from pulp after each bleaching operation.
* Adjusts controls to ensure that pulp bleaching meets specifications, according to laboratory test reports.
* Starts equipment to pump bleached pulp to storage.
* May make titration tests.
* May test whiteness of pulp, using reflectance meter. May tend decker machines that thicken pulp.
* May be designated according to pulp-making process as Bleacher, Groundwood Pulp (paper & pulp); Bleacher, Kraft Pulp (paper & pulp); Bleacher, Sulfite Pulp (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends blow pits that wash pulp to remove cooking acid. Respnsibilities include:
* Covers blow pit floor with specified amount of water, using hose, and clamps shut doors and hatches to prepare blow pit for receiving cooked pulp.
* Turns wheel, as signaled by digester operator, to open digester outlet valve and blow cooked pulp under pressure into blow pit.
* Opens valve to drain spent cooking liquor and water from pulp in blow pit.
* Opens water faucet or sprays pulp with water from high-pressure hose to wash cooking liquor from pulp and flush pulp from blow pit into receiving chests.
* Dips pulp sample from pit for testing in laboratory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates decker or rotary filter machines to remove water from pulp stock and reduce stock to specified consistency for bleaching or beating. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate flow of pulp stock into machine vat.
* Starts machine and adjusts controls to regulate speed of cylindrical screen in vat.
* Turns valve to adjust suction in cylinder to deposit pulp on screen at specified rate and remove white water through meshes of screen.
* Turns handwheels or pulls lever to adjust press roll against screen to obtain pulp of specified consistency.
* Pulls lever to adjust blade that scrapes pulp from screen into storage chest.
* May tend flat or rotary screens to remove coarse fibers from pulp.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates decker or rotary filter machines to remove water from pulp stock and reduce stock to specified consistency for bleaching or beating. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate flow of pulp stock into machine vat.
* Starts machine and adjusts controls to regulate speed of cylindrical screen in vat.
* Turns valve to adjust suction in cylinder to deposit pulp on screen at specified rate and remove white water through meshes of screen.
* Turns handwheels or pulls lever to adjust press roll against screen to obtain pulp of specified consistency.
* Pulls lever to adjust blade that scrapes pulp from screen into storage chest.
* May tend flat or rotary screens to remove coarse fibers from pulp.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rotary bleach boiler that cleans and bleaches rags used in making paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Charges boiler with rags, chemicals, and water.
* Fastens boiler cover, starts rotary motor, and turns steam valves to clean and bleach rags in boiler for specified length of time.
* Opens valves to reduce steam pressure and drain liquid from boiler.
* May pack boiler with alternate layers of rags and dry chemicals.
* May mix chemicals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that wash cooking liquor from pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines and pumps, and turns valves to regulate spray from water jets and flow of pulp through washer to remove cooking liquor.
* Opens drains to dispose of wash water or transfer wash water to recovery storage tank.
* May tend flat or centrifugal screens that remove knots or uncooked chips from pulp.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that salvages woodpulp suspended in white water. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves or starts pumps to regulate flow of white water and glue size into vat causing pulp to flocculate (form fluffy mass) for easier removal.
* Starts cylinder of machine revolving to remove pulp from water.
* Turns valve to adjust vacuum in cylinder to remove water from pulp deposited on screen.
* Pulls levers to adjust blade that scrapes pulp from cylinder into receiving chest.
* Starts pumps to transport recovered pulp and residue of white water containing fillers, dyes, and chemicals to storage chests.
* Cleans machine and pipelines with brushes and chemical solution.
Industry:Professional careers
