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A professional who tends machine that separates whole nut meats from those that are chipped, broken, or wormy. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns dials to specified settings to separate nut meats.
* Connects calibrator to dials to verify settings.
* Starts machine and observes rejected nut meats to ascertain whether machine is functioning efficiently.
* Examines dial settings of machine periodically, using calibrator, and adjusts dials when necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that separates whole nut meats from those that are chipped, broken, or wormy. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns dials to specified settings to separate nut meats.
* Connects calibrator to dials to verify settings.
* Starts machine and observes rejected nut meats to ascertain whether machine is functioning efficiently.
* Examines dial settings of machine periodically, using calibrator, and adjusts dials when necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic press that extracts oil from cloth-covered cakes of oilseed meat. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts cakes from cake-forming tray, using metal pan (blade), shoves cakes into compartments of press, and withdraws empty pan.
* Turns handwheel to raise hydraulic ram that presses cakes to extract oil from cake.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends blanching machine that removes skins from shelled peanuts. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and pours peanuts into machine hopper.
* Inspects peanuts as they fall from machine onto moving belt and picks out foreign matter, unblanched peanuts, and peanuts that fail to meet production specifications.
* May sack blanched peanuts.
* May tend sorting machine that electronically locates and removes unblanched peanuts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends blanching machine that removes skins from shelled peanuts. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and pours peanuts into machine hopper.
* Inspects peanuts as they fall from machine onto moving belt and picks out foreign matter, unblanched peanuts, and peanuts that fail to meet production specifications.
* May sack blanched peanuts.
* May tend sorting machine that electronically locates and removes unblanched peanuts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes and peels potatoes. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads potatoes into hopper of machine by hand or by use of hoist.
* Starts machine and equipment that cuts oversized potatoes in half and conveys potatoes through washing and peeling units.
* Observes operation of machine to prevent jamming and ensure that potato skins are removed.
* In batch-type machine, adjusts timing device to control stay of potatoes in pot containing abrasive disk.
* In continuous-type machine, pushes lever to regulate flow of potatoes over abrasive rollers to control amount of skin removed.
* Inspects peeled potatoes, passing on conveyor belt, and discards rotten potatoes.
* Cuts up oversized potatoes and removes unsuitable parts, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grain separating, washing, and scouring machines that remove foreign matter, such as dirt, smut, and rust, from grain preparatory to milling. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts slides in bin spouts and starts elevators to route grain from storage bins to machines.
* Turns valves to regulate water temperature and water level in washer, to adjust air suction to remove dust from separators, and to regulate flow of air through drier.
* Turns wingnuts to adjust angle of separator screens, according to grain flow and amount of refuse.
* Hooks bag under end of screen to catch refuse.
* Starts machines to process grain and observes flow entering machines to prevent overloading.
* Examines processed grain to verify cleanliness.
* Pounds chutes with mallet to dislodge clogged grain.
* May tend separating equipment only and be designated Separator Tender I.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends presses and auxiliary equipment that extract water from beet pulp, and mix pulp with molasses to produce animal fodder. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyors, elevator, and presses.
* Places gates on conveyor belts to divert pulp into automatic presses.
* Opens valve on molasses tank to mix molasses and pulp.
* Adjusts presses, valves, and flow of pulp to obtain pulp and molasses mixture with specified moisture content.
* Takes samples of pulp before pressing, and of pulp and molasses mixture for laboratory analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that extracts juice, and separates seeds and pulp from fresh and precooked fruits, berries, and tomatoes. Respnsibilities include:
* Places containers under discharge outlets of pulping machine to receive juice, seeds, and pulp.
* Starts equipment to pump or convey material through machines or dumps fruit, berries, or vegetables in machine hopper.
* Observes passage of juice flowing from discharge outlet to ensure that juice is free of pulp and seeds.
* Removes filled containers from discharge outlets.
* Replaces damaged or clogged filter screen, using handtools.
* May adjust paddles in machine, using wrench.
* May add measured amounts of salt to tomato juice.
* May heat berries in open kettle prior to processing in pulping machine.
* May clean and sterilize machine, using steam hose.
* May be designated according to product pulped as Tomato-Pulper Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that extracts juice, and separates seeds and pulp from fresh and precooked fruits, berries, and tomatoes. Respnsibilities include:
* Places containers under discharge outlets of pulping machine to receive juice, seeds, and pulp.
* Starts equipment to pump or convey material through machines or dumps fruit, berries, or vegetables in machine hopper.
* Observes passage of juice flowing from discharge outlet to ensure that juice is free of pulp and seeds.
* Removes filled containers from discharge outlets.
* Replaces damaged or clogged filter screen, using handtools.
* May adjust paddles in machine, using wrench.
* May add measured amounts of salt to tomato juice.
* May heat berries in open kettle prior to processing in pulping machine.
* May clean and sterilize machine, using steam hose.
* May be designated according to product pulped as Tomato-Pulper Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
