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A professional who tends machine that grinds and mixes silica and fire clay into slurry for spraying inner surfaces of furnaces. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever on storage hopper chute to fill mobile equipment box with silica, transports load to mixing unit, releases end gate, and dumps silica into ball mill and mixer.
* Turns valve to saturate material with water.
* Starts agitators and shovels fire clay into mixer to mix slurry to specified consistency.
* Opens valve to drain slurry from mixer into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes multicolored granules of slate for use in surfacing asphalt-coated roofing felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts gates on slate chutes, using gauge, and pulls levers to deposit specified proportion of granules of each color onto mixer conveyor.
* Starts mixer that blends granules and activates discharge conveyor leading to surfacing machine hopper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends ball mill that mixes and grinds materials to produce glaze for coating pottery, tile, and porcelain. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs materials, such as calcium, carbonate, clay, feldspar, flint, and lead oxide, in specified proportions, using tubs and scale.
* Dumps materials into mill and pushes button to start mill that pulverizes and mixes glaze ingredients.
* Turns valve to transfer finished glaze from mill over screens and magnets and into storage jars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps abrasives into pebble mill, connects hose from mill to agitator tank, and shovels graded abrasives from vats.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists abrasive mixer in mixing ingredients to form polishing and buffing compounds by performing any of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps specified ingredients in mixing machine.
* Turns valve to drain finished mix from machine.
* Transports supplies and products between plant locations, using handtruck.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares asbestos, cotton, and synthetic fibers for use in manufacture of asbestos products, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Assembles asbestos, cotton, and synthetic fibers, according to instructions, into lots for blending.
* Feeds fibers into hopper or chute of duster, hammer mill, picker, or blending machine, using shovel or pitchfork.
* Opens or closes gates of blower pipes to direct fiber from blending machine into handtrucks and trucks fiber to storage area or production department.
* Fastens bags under spout of bin and trips lever to fill bags with fiber.
* May be designated according to task performed as blending-machine feeder; picker feeder; stock mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares asbestos, cotton, and synthetic fibers for use in manufacture of asbestos products, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Assembles asbestos, cotton, and synthetic fibers, according to instructions, into lots for blending.
* Feeds fibers into hopper or chute of duster, hammer mill, picker, or blending machine, using shovel or pitchfork.
* Opens or closes gates of blower pipes to direct fiber from blending machine into handtrucks and trucks fiber to storage area or production department.
* Fastens bags under spout of bin and trips lever to fill bags with fiber.
* May be designated according to task performed as blending-machine feeder; picker feeder; stock mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes and dumps raw materials, such as silicas or clays, into mixers. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains materials from storage area, using shovel, wheelbarrow, or towmotor, and transports material to batching area.
* Measures specified quantities of materials according to batch cards, using scales or measuring box.
* Dumps material from sacks onto conveyor leading to mixer or empties bulk material from wheelbarrow into mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends furnace that heats perlite to expel volatile material and reduce ore to powder (calcine) for use as insulating material, plaster, and concrete aggregate. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps pulverized perlite onto shaker screen that sifts perlite to specified fineness.
* Starts conveyor that feeds screened material into furnace.
* Shovels calcined perlite into sack or fills sack by holding it under discharge hopper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that filters glaze mixtures and conveys glaze to spraying units. Respnsibilities include:
* Filters aqueous glaze through electromagnetic filters and screens to remove metal particles or other foreign substances, and stores filtered glaze in stone jars.
* Tests specific gravity of solutions with hydrometer and adds water to obtain solutions of designated specific gravity.
* Turns valves to transfer glaze to spraying units or to pressure tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
