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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A professional who visually inspects plate glass or glass products, including fiberglass, for defects, such as scratches, cracks, chips, holes, or bubbles. Respnsibilities include: * Places workpiece on inspection stand or table for examination. * Examines workpiece and marks defects. * Rejects or classifies pieces for potential use, such as mirrors, glass pane, or furniture tops. * Scrapes or washes foreign material from surface, using scraper, sponge, or brush. * May clean or polish glass by washing with water or solvent and drying with cloth. * May place straightedge over glass plates to determine if plates are warped. * May attach identifying label to glassware.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines continuous sheet of built-up (bonded) mica for thin spots and foreign matter as mica emerges from oven onto inspection table. Respnsibilities include: * Patches thin spots, using mica splittings and picks out foreign matter. * Removes lengths of built-up mica from delivery end of machine and stacks mica on table.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects finished glassware for conformance to quality standards. Respnsibilities include: * Examines glassware for defects, such as cracks, chips, reams (wavy distortions), discolorations, and blisters. * Verifies weight and dimensions of glassware, such as height, circumference, thickness, and bottle throat openings, using templates, jigs, micrometers, and fixed gauges; or monitors automatic gauging equipment that measures glassware. * Examines glass for annealing defects, using polariscope. * Removes glassware to unjam automatic equipment. * Throws rejects in cullet (waste glass) bin. * May record production, number of rejects, and lehr temperatures. * May pack acceptable glassware in cartons, close and seal cartons, and stencil information on carton, using brush and ink. * May turn controls to synchronize automatic gauging equipment with conveyor speed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes cured asbestos disk brake pads from metal die plates, using knockout device. Respnsibilities include: * Positions die plate on roller-type conveyor, removes lid from plate, and scrapes asbestos residue from lid, using putty knife. * Pushes plate onto revolving tray and pulls lever to flip plate over to facilitate knockout of disk pads. * Presses button to activate knockout device that forces metal rods into wells of die plate to punch pads from plate. * Pushes empty plate along conveyor for subsequent re-use in heat-treating process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who places asbestos disk pads into wells of die plates prior to heat-treating process. Respnsibilities include: * Sprays die plate to prevent pads from adhering to plate during heat-treating process, using spray gun and silicone solution. * Positions individual pads into wells of die plates and pushes filled plate along roller-type conveyor to oven of hot press. * Discards broken or defective pads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of tasks in establishment manufacturing concrete products. Respnsibilities include: * Ties strip of cloth around bell of freshly cast concrete pipe to maintain circular shape of bell during curing. * Arranges pipe in storage yard and stacks pipe for shipment. * Places rubber gaskets on pipe. * Stacks concrete blocks on pallets for removal by forklift truck. * Feeds concrete blocks into block-breaking machine or abrasive saw to shape blocks. * Immerses chimney flue liner sections in sealing compound. * Brushes stone facings to remove loose material, applies acid solution, using brush to remove concrete around stones, and washes acid from stone, using water hose. * Repairs defects in concrete surfaces, using mortar or grout and trowel, and smooths rough spots, using chisel and abrasive stone. * Opens gates of railroad cars to allow materials to flow into storage chutes. * Loads, unloads, and moves cement, sand, and gravel to work areas, using wheelbarrow, handtruck, or industrial truck. * Cleans yard and plant, using shovel, broom, and water hose, and performs other duties as assigned. * May be designated according to specific duties performed as acid cutter; bell tier; block breaker; block cuber; flue-lining dipper; rough patcher; yarder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts machines and equipment used to shape and dry hose, using knowledge of machine function and boarding II process. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valves to admit steam to drying cabinet or boarding forms. * Changes toe boards or boarding forms according to size of hose being processed, using key and handtools. * Observes gauges during boarding and turns valves to increase or decrease steam pressure and temperature of drying chamber or boarding forms, according to type of hose being boarded. * Replaces worn or broken parts, such as conveyors, boarding forms, and electric motors, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stretches and sets circular knitted cloth (knit tubing) to uniform width. Respnsibilities include: * Turns screws to adjust width of spreader according to specifications. * Turns valves to admit steam into steam box that sets stretched cloth. * Threads cloth over feed and guide rollers, around spreader, through steam box, and between pressure rolls, and wraps end of cloth around takeup roll or guides end through swing-folding attachment. Starts machine and observes flow of cloth to detect cloth defects, such as dirt, dye streaks, and holes. * Cuts defects from cloth, using shears. * Measures width of calendered cloth with hand rule. * Cuts calendered cloth with shears or automatic cutter attached to machine and doffs rolls of cloth from machine. * May lower top pressure roller to press cloth. * May attach identification tag to end of cloth bolt. * May tend calender fed from rolls, handtruck, or another machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates weft straightener that straightens and aligns skewed weft of broad woven fabrics after wet finishing. Respnsibilities include: * Observes cloth passing under beam of light to detect skewed weft. * Presses buttons to control movement of rollers that hold back leading selvage of skewed cloth and to allow lagging selvage to catch up. * May tend finishing machines, such as cloth drier, calender, or tenter frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shrinks felt cones to size and shapes cones to form unfinished hat bodies. Respnsibilities include: * Immerses cone in hot water, places cone in steam cabinet, or holds cone over steam jet, to shrink and soften cone. * Positions softened cone over heated head-shaped block. * Presses and rubs cone to smooth and shape cone by hand or using iron. * Ties cord around base of crown and pulls edge of cone over base of block to form brim of hat. * Removes cord and block from hat body after drying. * May place cones in drying cabinet following blocking process.
Industry:Professional careers