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A professional who tends agitator machines that mix compounds used to line and coat tin cans. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures and pours specified amounts of concentrates and solvents into barrel of solution, using measuring can.
* Lowers agitator into barrel and starts machine to mix solution.
* Tests viscosity of solution with viscosimeter and adds solvent or concentrates to obtain specified consistency.
* Starts pump that forces mix from barrel into storage tank and through feed lines into coating machine reservoirs.
* Raises and stacks barrels on racks, using chain hoist, and transports them to mixing room with handtrucks.
* Keeps stock control records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends agitator machines that mix compounds used to line and coat tin cans. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures and pours specified amounts of concentrates and solvents into barrel of solution, using measuring can.
* Lowers agitator into barrel and starts machine to mix solution.
* Tests viscosity of solution with viscosimeter and adds solvent or concentrates to obtain specified consistency.
* Starts pump that forces mix from barrel into storage tank and through feed lines into coating machine reservoirs.
* Raises and stacks barrels on racks, using chain hoist, and transports them to mixing room with handtrucks.
* Keeps stock control records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment in shot tower that segregates, routes, blends, and polishes shot (lead pellets) used in shotgun shells. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts bucket elevator that conveys newly formed pellets to shot tower and into screening drums that remove oversize and undersize pellets.
* Turns crank to adjust angle of glass plates over which screened shot is rolled to remove out-of-round pellets, using graduated measuring stick to verify pitch.
* Pulls levers and chains to direct flow of shot into sieves, polishing barrel, and storage bins, or into scrap bin for remelting.
* Connects Y-pipe between specified bins and polishing barrel, starts barrel rotating, and opens bin valves to blend full and off-size shot by flowing shot together in Y-pipe.
* Weighs sample of mixed shot at designated intervals and counts total number of pellets in sample, using pellet counting plate.
* Measures size of pellets, using pellet measuring stick, and counts number of each size to determine average size.
* Rolls pellets under dial micrometer to ascertain roundness of pellets.
* Turns valves by trial and error to obtain shot blend that conforms to specifications.
* Records results of tests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of rotary kilns in which hydrated alumina is calcined. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers and switches to start kilns and regulate their speed.
* Adjusts controls to regulate temperature, pressure, and rate of flow of oil, gas, air, flue gases, and steam vapor.
* Directs dewaterer operator in regulating flow of hydrated alumina into kilns.
* Turns valves to adjust water supply to cooler coils, kiln trunnions, and water-cooled bearings.
* Inspects kilns, carriages, and drive mechanisms for signs of faulty operation or overheating.
* Keeps log of operational data, such as air temperature and oil or gas pressure.
* May lubricate valves and adjust packing glands to prevent leaks.
* May tend air slides and bucket elevators to convey alumina to storage bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists mixer operator, hot metal to mix molten metal. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches electrical connections to torpedo-ladle car and pushes controls to tilt car and pour metal into hot-metal transfer ladle.
* Signals overhead crane operator to pour molten iron from ladle into mixer.
* Records tare weight of torpedo-ladle car.
* Knocks solidified slag from pouring spout and rim of hot-metal ladle, using hammer and bar.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects samples of materials, such as scrap iron and ore, and products, such as metal sheets, rails, tubes, and bars, and prepares samples for physical analysis, using grinders, crushers, drill press, power saws and milling machine.
* Identifies samples and routes samples to laboratory for analysis.
* Records test data and type and amount of samples tested.
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A professional who removes tin can ends from discharge rack of coating machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects rubber base coating compound on can ends and ring-pull for conformity to specifications.
* Notifies punch-press setter of machine jam or defects in can ends.
* Packs ends in cartons or paper bags and places containers on pallet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes tin can ends from discharge rack of coating machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects rubber base coating compound on can ends and ring-pull for conformity to specifications.
* Notifies punch-press setter of machine jam or defects in can ends.
* Packs ends in cartons or paper bags and places containers on pallet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays finish coat of enamel onto cast-iron sanitary units, such as bathtubs and sinks and bakes unit to provide permanent finish. Respnsibilities include:
* Wheels units into furnace for preheating, using steel fork mounted on overhead conveyor.
* Observes color of unit through window in furnace to determine when desired temperature has been reached.
* Removes unit from furnace and sprays powdered enamel over it, using pneumatic gun.
* Returns unit to furnace to fuse and glaze enamel, repeating heating and enameling process until unit is coated without discolorations, blisters, or pinholes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays finish coat of enamel onto cast-iron sanitary units, such as bathtubs and sinks and bakes unit to provide permanent finish. Respnsibilities include:
* Wheels units into furnace for preheating, using steel fork mounted on overhead conveyor.
* Observes color of unit through window in furnace to determine when desired temperature has been reached.
* Removes unit from furnace and sprays powdered enamel over it, using pneumatic gun.
* Returns unit to furnace to fuse and glaze enamel, repeating heating and enameling process until unit is coated without discolorations, blisters, or pinholes.
Industry:Professional careers
