- Industri: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who sets up and operates machine to stack (interleaf) separators and positive and negative plates into groups to form storage battery elements. Responsibilities include:
* Loads positive and negative plates in magazines of machine.
* Positions separators in magazine with ribbed side toward positive plate to facilitate passage of sediment.
* Moves lever to set electric solenoid counter for number of plates specified for group.
* Turns screws to adjust opening in feeding mechanism (stripper gates), according to plate sizes, using handtools.
* Starts machine to stack specified number of plates and separators alternately to form group.
* Clears plate and separator jams and adjusts machine to correct malfunction, using handtools.
* Places groups on conveyor leading to burning stand.
* Removes oxide dust from machine, using vacuum cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to stack (interleaf) separators and positive and negative plates into groups to form storage battery elements. Responsibilities include:
* Loads positive and negative plates in magazines of machine.
* Positions separators in magazine with ribbed side toward positive plate to facilitate passage of sediment.
* Moves lever to set electric solenoid counter for number of plates specified for group.
* Turns screws to adjust opening in feeding mechanism (stripper gates), according to plate sizes, using handtools.
* Starts machine to stack specified number of plates and separators alternately to form group.
* Clears plate and separator jams and adjusts machine to correct malfunction, using handtools.
* Places groups on conveyor leading to burning stand.
* Removes oxide dust from machine, using vacuum cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates hydraulic press to build calender rolls used to make paper and textile imprinting and embossing machinery. Responsibilities include:
* Fits flange over end of shaft.
* Hoists shaft into vertical position on hydraulic press, using crane.
* Places rings composed of paper, cotton, wool, and corn husks over shaft until shaft is full.
* Fits top flange onto shaft.
* Adjusts valves on hydraulic press, and starts pump to build up pressure.
* Monitors clock and gauges to ensure that pressure is maintained.
* Records weight of material put on shaft, measures length of material being compressed, computes density, and stops press when specified density is reached.
* Maintains pressure for prescribed time.
* Releases pressure and adds material to shaft as necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates automatic machines to grind, mill, and secure shunt leads to carbon and graphite brushes. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews work orders to determine size, type, and number of brushes to be produced.
* Installs grinding wheels, cutting blades, and tamping tools on machine shafts and turns setscrews to adjust cutting and grinding mechanisms and width guides according to specifications, using handtools.
* Observes panelboard to detect and remove jammed brushes.
* Verifies dimensions of brushes, using micrometer, calipers, and ruler.
* May be designated according to machine operated as concaving-machine operator; heading-machine operator; tamping-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds copper wire around plastic cores to produce intrauterine birth control devices. Responsibilities include:
* Positions core in winding machine.
* Starts machine that winds wire around core to fabricate iud of specified size.
* Removes iud from machine and laces thin wire on bottom to facilitate removal by physician.
* Verifies size of iud, using preset plug gauge and calipers.
* Verifies wire tension, using tensiometer, and turns nuts or setscrews to adjust tension.
* Removes empty spools of copper wire from machine and threads new spools on machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to pack dynamite into paper cartridge shells to form sticks. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts tamping sticks and nipple plates in packing machine according to diameter and length of cartridges to be packed, using nonsparking handtools.
* Starts machine, directs dynamite-packing-machine feeder to fill powder hopper with dynamite, and fills shuttle board (cartridge forming block) with paper cartridge shells.
* Secures shuttle board in filling position on machine, and scoops dynamite from hopper into box above tamping sticks.
* Lifts shuttle board of filled cartridges from machine and tends crimping press to finish ends, or passes filled cartridges to dynamite-cartridge crimper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates stuffing machine to fill paper dynamite cartridges with gelatin-type dynamite. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts extruding auger and nozzle according to diameter and length of cartridges to be packed.
* Starts machine and holds end of cartridge to nozzle until filled.
* Taps bottom of cartridge on bench to settle top level of dynamite, and stands it in frame to be crimped.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates automatic wire-wrapping machine to wire panel and plugboard type subassemblies in manufacture of machines, such as computers and punched-card office machines. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work orders, wiring diagrams, and blueprints to determine wiring specifications, number of units to be wired, and specified paper tape or punched card deck to use for machine control.
* Positions specified paper tape on spindles or places punched card deck in feed hopper.
* Mounts unwired panel or plugboard in holding fixture and positions fixture in machine, using wrenches and clamps.
* Pushes buttons and switches to operate wire-wrapping machine that automatically routes, cuts, and wraps ends of wires around terminal posts to install wiring.
* Monitors indicator lights, spools of wire, and machine operation to detect machine malfunctions.
* Notifies supervisor of malfunctions or need for change in machine setup.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that braid and cement fabric cord or wire around rubber hose for reinforcement. Responsibilities include:
* Threads machine with specified spools of cord, rubber insulation, or wire stock.
* Notifies braider setter when change in pitch gear is required.
* Pulls hose from reel and threads it into braiding machine.
* Adjusts controls to maintain uniform tension on cord or wire stock.
* Starts flow of rubber cement into machine and starts machine.
* Observes operation for defects, such as broken cords and loose braiding.
* Ties broken cords.
* Places braided hose on stock rack or coils it in box.
* May rewind partial spools of cord to make full spool, using electric windup spindle.
* May tend machine that knits yarn onto rubber hose and be designated knitting-machine tender.
* May tend one or more looms that weave yarn and wire jacket around hose and be designated loom operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends press that automatically punches out blocks of floor tile from sheets of vinyl and asphalt or asbestos material. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and observes sheet for uniformity of color pattern.
* Pushes button to release punching ram, allowing defective sections of sheet to pass through and onto scrap conveyor.
* Feels material to determine its flexibility as it enters machine and notifies calender operator to adjust temperature of rolls.
* Stops machine when jams occur and removes damaged floor tile to clear punch press.
Industry:Professional careers
