- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who feeds machine that cuts rags to size for cooking, bleaching, and defibering prior to making paper, roofing felt, or related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Places rags on apron of machine and pushes them into feeder roll or loads rags onto conveyor leading to machine.
* Examines cut rags for size and notifies supervisor if machine knives need adjusting or sharpening.
* May loosen setscrews with wrench and remove knives.
* May clean dirt and dust from dust compartment and work area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machine that cuts rags to size for cooking, bleaching, and defibering prior to making paper, roofing felt, or related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Places rags on apron of machine and pushes them into feeder roll or loads rags onto conveyor leading to machine.
* Examines cut rags for size and notifies supervisor if machine knives need adjusting or sharpening.
* May loosen setscrews with wrench and remove knives.
* May clean dirt and dust from dust compartment and work area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to grind cooked wood chips into pulp and blend pulp with other specified ingredients in manufacture of wallboard. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel to adjust grinding-plate settings.
* Starts machines and adjusts panel controls to maintain level in pulp and water chests and regulate flow of chips through grinding machines.
* Observes charts, dials, and gauges; and adjusts levers, valves, and panel controls to regulate flow of specified amounts of pulp, alum, wax, asphalt, and starch into blending machine.
* May weigh samples of wet and dry pulp on scales and calculate moisture content.
* May test pulp for freeness, fineness, density, and breakage.
* May record production and test data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes and strains filling and coating materials for paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps specified quantities of materials, such as clay, soda ash, titanium dioxide, lithopone, or gypsum, into hopper of mixing machine.
* Turns valve to admit metered volume of water into mixing machine and starts machine that mixes ingredients.
* Starts pumps that force mixture through straining screens and into storage tanks.
* Lifts screens from machine and washes screens with water hose.
* May deliver sacks of materials to mixer, using handtruck or forklift truck.
* May weigh and add specified quantities of color pigments to mixture.
* May plan mixing according to paper production orders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes and strains filling and coating materials for paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps specified quantities of materials, such as clay, soda ash, titanium dioxide, lithopone, or gypsum, into hopper of mixing machine.
* Turns valve to admit metered volume of water into mixing machine and starts machine that mixes ingredients.
* Starts pumps that force mixture through straining screens and into storage tanks.
* Lifts screens from machine and washes screens with water hose.
* May deliver sacks of materials to mixer, using handtruck or forklift truck.
* May weigh and add specified quantities of color pigments to mixture.
* May plan mixing according to paper production orders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that reduces broke or dry pulp sheets to pulp or slurry for use in making paper, wallboard, or related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps broke or pulp sheets onto conveyor or into vat to fill pulper machine.
* Pushes buttons and turns valves to admit water, ink removing solution, and steam that softens material to specified consistency.
* Starts beating machine that reduces material to pulp.
* Observes and monitors material, dials, or charts to ensure specified consistency of pulp.
* Opens discharge gate or starts pump to dump or transport pulp to storage or to other processes.
* May catch pulp in broke boxes and push boxes to beater engines.
* May push cart loads of broke from paper machines to pulper.
* May be designated according to material reduced as Broke-Beater Tender; or according to type of machine used as Hydropulper (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that reduces broke or dry pulp sheets to pulp or slurry for use in making paper, wallboard, or related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps broke or pulp sheets onto conveyor or into vat to fill pulper machine.
* Pushes buttons and turns valves to admit water, ink removing solution, and steam that softens material to specified consistency.
* Starts beating machine that reduces material to pulp.
* Observes and monitors material, dials, or charts to ensure specified consistency of pulp.
* Opens discharge gate or starts pump to dump or transport pulp to storage or to other processes.
* May catch pulp in broke boxes and push boxes to beater engines.
* May push cart loads of broke from paper machines to pulper.
* May be designated according to material reduced as Broke-Beater Tender; or according to type of machine used as Hydropulper (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds scrap paper or wood chips into beater tanks for grinding into furnish used in making paper, roofing felt, or related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Conveys bales of scrap paper, fillers, starch, and chemicals to beater room, using forklift truck or handtruck.
* Opens bales and dumps paper and fillers into beater tanks.
* Observes scrap paper and discards plastic or other insoluble items into trash bin.
* Stacks bales of scrap paper and sacks of chemicals onto conveyor of pulper machine, using forklift truck.
* Sweeps and cleans work area.
* May open valves to drain furnish from beater tanks into storage units.
* May clean equipment screens, blades, and interior surfaces, using brushes, broom, and cleaning solutions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads pulp logs or wood blocks into magazines of grinder that reduces them to fibers used in making paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts and places logs into magazines, using lumber hooks or picaroon to align logs and avoid jams.
* Cuts oversized logs to desired length, using cutoff saw.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads pulp logs or wood blocks into magazines of grinder that reduces them to fibers used in making paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts and places logs into magazines, using lumber hooks or picaroon to align logs and avoid jams.
* Cuts oversized logs to desired length, using cutoff saw.
Industry:Professional careers
