- Industri: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sets up and operates variety of machines used to fabricate paint roller covers. Responsibilities include:
* Changes and adjusts jigs and fixtures, cutters, and chucks on machines, such as sewing, cutting, and reversing machines, using handtools.
* Fills machine reservoirs with glue and adjusts mechanisms that control flow of glue into machines.
* Inspects machines to detect malfunctions and adjusts machines.
* Replaces worn or damaged parts, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates filling machine which inserts and fastens brush wire in metal hub to fabricate power-driven circular wire brushes. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts specified metal hub in machine holding fixture and tightens bolts using hand wrench.
* Selects coil of brush wire according to chart, mounts it on feeding reel, and threads end through machine feed rollers.
* Turns screws to adjust stroke of feeding arms that feed specified amounts of brush wire into machine cutting blade which cuts wire to length.
* Fills magazine feed with tying wires of specified length.
* Starts machine which inserts brush wire into hub and ties into place with wire.
* Notifies supervisor of machine malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to stack plates or sheets of material, such as metal or plastic, to assemble laminated products, such as rotor cores and storage battery elements or to form bundles for shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Places specified material into one or more feed magazines or holding devices.
* Moves lever to set automatic feed for number of items specified for stack.
* Turns screws to adjust opening in feed mechanism to size of item, using measuring instruments or built-in scale and handtools.
* Starts machine that automatically measures or counts and stacks specified number of pieces in desired arrangement.
* Clears jams and adjusts machine to correct malfunction, using handtools.
* Removes finished stack from machine and places stack into basket or into magazine of machine performing subsequent operation.
* May insert spacers between bundles to form continuous stack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to wind reinforcing metal or plastic bands around ends of boxes or cartons. Responsibilities include:
* Places spool of strapping on machine and threads end of strap through jaws of clamp.
* Adjusts jaws to attain specified tension on strap.
* Tightens clamp down on box or carton placed in it.
* Nails end of strap to box.
* Starts machine that automatically winds strap around box or carton.
* Nails strap to box, and cuts strap with snips.
* Releases pressure of clamp on box or carton and removes it from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates lathe-type winding machine to wind wire or other materials over core of wire, nylon, or gut to make musical instrument strings. Responsibilities include:
* Places looped end of core over one end of machine and attaches core to other end of machine.
* Places spool of winding wire or nylon on spool holder and threads end through loop on core.
* Starts machine and guides covering material along rotating core.
* Stops machine and cuts covering material with shears or wirecutter.
* Clips one end of core with wirecutter and removes it from machine.
* May wind more than one strand of wire or nylon over core.
* May wind colored silk or rayon on string ends for trim, identification, or protection.
* May specialize in winding bass strings and be designated bass-string winder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to bind fibers on cylindrical core to form brushes used on street sweeping machines. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts brush core in machine, turns crank to wind specified amount of cable on holding spool, and staples end of cable to core, using hammer.
* Sets spool brake to maintain tension between spool and core, using wrench.
* Aligns carriage wheel guide in spiral groove of core and adjusts material guides and conveyor to feed material onto core according to size of brush, using wrenches.
* Spreads precut fibers on conveyor.
* Starts machine that winds cable to bind fibers onto revolving core.
* Staples or bolts cable to core at completion of winding process.
* Repairs sweeper brush cores, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to bind fibers on cylindrical core to form brushes used on street sweeping machines. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts brush core in machine, turns crank to wind specified amount of cable on holding spool, and staples end of cable to core, using hammer.
* Sets spool brake to maintain tension between spool and core, using wrench.
* Aligns carriage wheel guide in spiral groove of core and adjusts material guides and conveyor to feed material onto core according to size of brush, using wrenches.
* Spreads precut fibers on conveyor.
* Starts machine that winds cable to bind fibers onto revolving core.
* Staples or bolts cable to core at completion of winding process.
* Repairs sweeper brush cores, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends electrically powered or hand-cranked band-winding machine that joins and shapes precut backing strip with abrasive-coated strip by spirally winding strips on mandrel to produce grinding and polishing tubes or cones. Responsibilities include:
* Applies adhesive to backing strip by handbrush or by automatic applicator attached to winding machine.
* Clips ends of backing strip and abrasive strip to mandrel.
* Depresses foot switch or turns handcrank to revolve mandrel.
* Guides strips by hand and depresses pressure roller pedal to feed strips on mandrel.
* Unclips and slides completed roll from mandrel and places roll in container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically makes adhesive bandages from cloth and plastic material. Responsibilities include:
* Positions specified rolls of materials on machine spindles and locks them in place with plates and setscrews to prevent unrolling.
* Threads materials through rollers in prescribed sequence.
* Starts machine that cuts materials to required length, affixes gauze to cloth or plastic tape, fastens crinoline strips to ends, seals completed bandage in paper wrapper, and deposits it on conveyor belt or in bin for subsequent packing.
* Observes machine during operations to detect jamming, twisted materials, or malfunctions and makes minor adjustments to correct faults.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that drills airhole in shank of smoking pipe to connect shank hole to bowl chamber. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps smoking pipe bowl in jaws of holding device and starts machine.
* Pulls handle of drill that automatically releases drilling tool into center of shank to bore hole through shank into base of bowl chamber.
* Removes bowl from clamp after drilling tool automatically stops and holds shank against sanding wheel to face shank for stem fitting.
Industry:Professional careers
