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A professional who tends battery of preset, final drying chambers that automatically dry macaroni long goods. Respnsibilities include: * Pushes rack of macaroni into drying chambers and starts drying cycle. * Observes hydrometer on chamber and removes rack of dried macaroni after completion of drying cycle. * Records date and time of drying process on tag and fastens tag to rack. * Pushes rack to storage area.
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A professional who tends battery of preset, final drying chambers that automatically dry macaroni long goods. Respnsibilities include: * Pushes rack of macaroni into drying chambers and starts drying cycle. * Observes hydrometer on chamber and removes rack of dried macaroni after completion of drying cycle. * Records date and time of drying process on tag and fastens tag to rack. * Pushes rack to storage area.
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A professional who tends drum-type rotary driers and heating kilns, from central control station, to remove moisture from beet pulp and molasses mixture being processed into cattle fodder. Respnsibilities include: * Moves controls to admit fuel and air into kiln and ignite fire in kiln. * Adjusts controls to obtain specified temperature in drier drum. * Starts scrolls, elevators, and belt conveyors. * Observes panelboard gauges and automatic recorder readings and moves controls to regulate drier temperature and rotation speed of drier drum according to moisture content of pulp-molasses mixture. * Feels processed pulp to ensure that drying process meets specifications. * Takes readings from conveyor scale to ascertain tonnage of fodder produced. * Records production and operating data in station log. * Collects samples of cattle fodder produced for laboratory analysis.
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A professional who tends equipment that roasts whole or milled grain to specified color or hardness preparatory to processing into cereal. Respnsibilities include: * Lights gas jets under drum or pan and sets temperature regulator at specified setting. * Moves controls to transfer grain to drum or pan and start agitator that prevents sticking of grain to sides of vessel. * Shovels grain from outer edge of pan to center to ensure uniform agitation of batch. * Pushes grain from pan, using scoop, or pulls lever to dump grain onto conveyor after specified time, or determines removal time by matching color of roasted grain with color of standard sample. * Records temperature reading and roasting time of batch. * May start conveyor to move roasted grain to cooling pan and agitate grain with rake as blower forces air through perforated bottom of pan.
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A professional who observes meters and gauges to ensure that drying process of macaroni short goods proceeds as scheduled. Respnsibilities include: * Patrols drying room and reads instruments and charts that control and record automatic drying process in preliminary, secondary, and final drying chambers. * Reports deviations from specified chart trackings. * Fills hydrometer wells with water. * Dumps specified quantities of vitamins into press hopper, and reads meter to ensure required vitamin feed rate. * Prepares report of drying operations and number of vitamin hoppers filled. * May relieve press tender.
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A professional who loads stripped or unstripped tobacco on racks in drying room and remoistens tobacco to increase pliability for use in making cigars. Respnsibilities include: * Places trays of tobacco on racks and removes them after specified time. * Sprays leaves with water, using hose, and stacks trays. * Places moistened leaves in containers for cigar making after specified time. * Weighs and records weight of tobacco processed.
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A professional who controls kilns to reclaim char (activated carbon) used in filtering corn syrups. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valve to admit gas to kilns. * Specifies to bone-char kiln tender temperature to maintain in kiln. * Reads pyrometers to verify temperature. * Observes operation of char conveyors to prevent spillage. * Collects and replaces temperature-recording graphs. * Patches flues, plugs up retorts, and replaces broken or worn parts in kiln.
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A professional who controls kilns to reclaim char (activated carbon) used in filtering corn syrups. Respnsibilities include: * Turns valve to admit gas to kilns. * Specifies to bone-char kiln tender temperature to maintain in kiln. * Reads pyrometers to verify temperature. * Observes operation of char conveyors to prevent spillage. * Collects and replaces temperature-recording graphs. * Patches flues, plugs up retorts, and replaces broken or worn parts in kiln.
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A professional who tends rotary-type kiln that dries sugar to specified moisture content. Respnsibilities include: * Starts equipment, such as scrolls, and conveyors. * Turns valve to admit steam into heating coils, and starts fan that blows air around steam coils in drum. * Opens gate on feed scroll to admit sugar to drum. * Observes instruments to ascertain that temperatures and humidity in drums are within specified limits. * Adjusts gate or speed of feed scroll and amount of steam pressure in coils to control temperature, luster, and grist of sugar. * Keeps records of station operations. * Takes samples of sugar for laboratory analysis. * Clears blockages in scrolls and magnetic screens, using mallet or brush.
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A professional who assists cocoa-bean roaster i and cocoa-bean roaster ii to process cocoa beans preparatory to making cocoa, chocolate, or other cocoa products. Respnsibilities include: * Receives signal to charge and discharge cocoa beans from roasting ovens. * Observes thermometers and clock and notifies supervisor of deviations from specific temperature or roasting cycle. * Starts conveyors to move cocoa bean shells from cracker and fanner to shell cleaning machines or to transfer cleaned nibs (cracked roasted cocoa beans) to treating drums. * Examines shells for presence of nibs and dumps shells into cracker and fanner machine to recover nibs. * May tend cleaning machine. * May mix potassium solution used in processing cocoa beans to make dutch process chocolate. * Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
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