- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that attaches protective metal strike-plates to wooden segments of assembled folding rule. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts reels of metal strip on machine spindles and threads strip ends through feed mechanism.
* Holds unfolded rule against guides and starts machine that cuts off, forms, and fastens pronged protector-plate to each segment of rule.
* Removes spilled and jammed plates from mechanisms, using screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that impregnates ribbons with ink to make ribbons for machines, such as typewriters, adding and addressograph machines, and cash registers. Responsibilities include:
* Fills ink pan of machine and loads machine roll or spool of silk, cotton, or nylon ribbon.
* Starts machine to rotate rollers that dip into ink pan and press ink on ribbon.
* Adjusts speed of machine and amount of ink to be pressed on ribbon according to type of ribbon to be made.
* Inspects inked ribbons for imperfections.
* May shape inner curve of divider that separates inks of bicolored ribbons, using file and emery cloth, until curve matches that of inking rollers.
* May adjust machine guides according to width of ribbon to be inked.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that impregnates ribbons with ink to make ribbons for machines, such as typewriters, adding and addressograph machines, and cash registers. Responsibilities include:
* Fills ink pan of machine and loads machine roll or spool of silk, cotton, or nylon ribbon.
* Starts machine to rotate rollers that dip into ink pan and press ink on ribbon.
* Adjusts speed of machine and amount of ink to be pressed on ribbon according to type of ribbon to be made.
* Inspects inked ribbons for imperfections.
* May shape inner curve of divider that separates inks of bicolored ribbons, using file and emery cloth, until curve matches that of inking rollers.
* May adjust machine guides according to width of ribbon to be inked.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends wire-stitching machine equipped with adjustable table that fastens together pages of pamphlets or magazines. Responsibilities include:
* Loads machine with spool of wire and threads wire through machine.
* Sets table flat for side stitching or tent-shaped for saddle (back) stitching.
* Positions materials under head of machine and starts machine.
* Adjusts machine table to accommodate size of materials being stitched.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that forms sanitary napkins. Responsibilities include:
* Threads nonwoven fabric, plastic inserts, paper, and cotton filling through feed rollers of machine in prescribed sequence.
* Fills glue reservoirs.
* Loads hot-melt pellets in heater unit and sets temperature and flow controls to melt pellets and saturate napkin to impart body to napkin.
* Starts machine.
* Examines napkins for defects and segregates damaged items for disposal.
* Packs finished pads into cartons and places them on conveyor for sealing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends extrusion press that fills grooves of storage battery covers with sealing compound. Responsibilities include:
* Attaches cylinder of sealing compound to press or fills drum of press with compound, using bucket.
* Depresses pedal to extrude sealing compound.
* Holds and moves inverted cover under vent of press to fill grooves to specified level.
* Places filled covers on truck.
* Turns valve to circulate cleaning solution through machine or cleans press, using brush and water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends preheater, seal dispenser (sealer), and flamer that seals dry cells. Responsibilities include:
* Installs sprocket of prescribed size according to diameter of cell.
* Turns setscrews to adjust sealer and flamer according to height of cells, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends preheater, seal dispenser (sealer), and flamer that seals dry cells. Responsibilities include:
* Installs sprocket of prescribed size according to diameter of cell.
* Turns setscrews to adjust sealer and flamer according to height of cells, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bonds plastic strips to tops of skis. Responsibilities include:
* Positions ski covered with precut strips on bed of machine.
* Presses lever or pedal to lower press or activate pressure rollers that bond plastic to ski tops.
* Examines skis for defects and removes blemishes, using abrasives, blade, and solvent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically interlaces thread around strings of sequins in such manner as to separate, space, and hold fast sequins.
* Places spools of thread and string of sequins in machine and inserts ends in feeding mechanism.
* Observes operation to determine that threads are aligned and have desired tension and that threads and sequins are of same color.
Industry:Professional careers
