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A professional who sets up and operates machine to spray and dry adhesive onto box blank flaps to make self-sealing boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions and secures micro-switches in spray chamber to regulate duration of spraying action, according to size of box, using wrench.
* Adjusts spray unit controls to regulate mixture, intensity, and spread of adhesive on box flaps.
* Turns crank to position top and side feed guides to hold box blanks in position during spraying and drying process.
* Opens petcock to start flow of adhesive to spray unit and flips switch to activate conveyor and dryer.
* Feeds box blanks into machine and observes machine operation to detect malfunction.
* Adjusts machine controls to correct defective spraying or drying of adhesive.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to automatically form paper into tubing for making bags. Responsibilities include:
* Threads paper from parent roll through rollers and guides and tapes end to previous roll.
* Adjusts guides, folding devices, and cutting blade according to size and thickness of bag to be made, using handtools.
* Turns valve to regulate flow of glue.
* Starts machine and observes operation to ensure uniform folding, gluing, cutting, or rewinding of tubing.
* Adjusts machine to correct malfunctions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to glue together continuous sheets of paper to form sheet of specified width. Responsibilities include:
* Positions feed guides, feed rollers, and glue pickup rollers on machine shafts according to job order and turns setscrews to secure guides and rollers in place, using handtools.
* Slides rolls of paper on unwind shaft and mounts shaft on feed end of machine, using hoist.
* Fills glue tanks with glue.
* Threads paper between feed guides, over tension bar, over glue pickup roller, and onto rewind roller.
* Slides empty core on rewind shaft and positions shaft on rewind roller, using hoist.
* Turns setscrews to lower or raise guide that presses paper against glue pickup roller to control quantity of glue transferred to paper.
* Starts machine and adjusts controls to regulate machine feed, glue application, tension of paper, and tension of rewind roller.
* Inspects paper and rolls for uneven glue application, uneven winding, and other machine malfunctions and verifies width of processed paper, using rule.
* Removes completed roll from machine, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine that automatically glues together specified number of paper sheets, with each sheet protruding equal distance beyond next one, for use as business forms. Responsibilities include:
* Moves guides, suction mechanisms, cams, gears, and glue pins to regulate machine according to width and number of sheets glued, and number of places glue is deposited.
* Loads feeding mechanism with paper sheets, starts machine, and observes spacing and feeding of sheets to ensure that finished assembly meets specifications.
* Stops machine and removes paper when jams occur.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that folds blanks along scored lines to form boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts machine guides and folders for specified size box.
* Feeds scored and cornered box blanks into machine that folds them.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that glues paper lining onto wooden boards for use in manufacture of lined boxes, such as certain types of cigar boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps roll of paper on reel of lining machine and threads paper through guide rollers and glue applicator.
* Adjusts pressure rollers to accommodate thickness of board to be lined.
* Starts machine and lays board on conveyor belt to feed mechanism that rolls and presses glued liner paper onto board, cuts off paper at end of board, and drops lined board in stacking bin.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically glues linings to interior of boxes. Responsibilities include:
* Mixes glue and water in electrically heated tray of automatic gluing mechanism.
* Starts machine and conveyor that automatically feeds box to machine.
* Centers glued lining over opening in metal plate and depresses pedal to lower lining ram through opening to force lining into box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms and glues flat blanks or continuous roll of paperboard into finished cartons for packing merchandise. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts forming bars to accommodate size of box to be shaped, using handtools.
* Fills glue pots with adhesive and positions rollers to dispense glue onto paperboard.
* Loads feeding magazine with blanks, or mounts roll of paper on machine standard and threads paper to feeding mechanism and starts machine.
* Observes machine operation to detect malfunction.
* May load machine with roll of waxed, parchment, or other paper used to line cartons.
* May mount roll of metal strip to form cutting edge on cartons.
* May stamp data with handstamp or attach automatic stamping device.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that automatically cut, glue, and form cartons or caddies from pasteboard rolls for kitchen, penny, and book matches. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls pasteboard to machine, positions on letoff rack, and threads end of pasteboard strip into machine.
* Starts and observes machine operation and corrects malfunctions, such as improper forming, glue flow, or pasteboard tension, using handtools.
* Observes finished cartons as they drop from forming machine into rotating hopper, then into gravity feed chute, to prevent jamming.
* May lift tote box of finished cartons and dump cartons into feed hopper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cements color samples of coated cut paper (chips) to color card display sheets or folders. Responsibilities include:
* Loads specified size, type, and color of chips into feeder racks on machine according to written specifications or sample color card.
* Fills reservoir with liquid adhesive and stacks printed color card blanks on roller feed of machine.
* Starts machine and observes cementing of chips on blanks to form color card display sheets or folders.
* Notifies supervisor of malfunctions, such as poor alignment of chips, jammed paper, or mechanical failures.
Industry:Professional careers
