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Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who separates macaroni scraps recovered from presses and packaging areas, according to type and condition, for disposal, remilling, or for sale as hog or poultry feed. Respnsibilities include: * Collects scraps dropped from processing and packaging equipment and sorts scrap into barrels for reprocessing, according to type of scrap (wet or dry), and dirt content. * Removes trimmings from batch drier and dumps trimmings into barrels designated for remilling. * Moves filled barrels to designated areas and replaces empty barrels in processing departments. * Records amount and type of scrap recovered and its disposition.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who obtains and grinds samples of tobacco leaves used in making moisture tests. Respnsibilities include: * Pulls leaves from hands of tobacco at discharge end of redrying machine or extracts sample of tobacco strips (stems removed) from hogsheads or shipping cartons, using electric auger. * Feeds sample into grinder. * Pours ground tobacco into container, places container in tumbler, starts tumbler to mix ground sample, and labels container showing date, machine, hogshead number, grade, and time collected. * May only extract and label samples for grinding and be designated Sample Driller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that grades fruit according to size. Respnsibilities include: * Changes chains and other driving gear according to type of fruit. * Directs workers engaged in loading of elevator belt and removal of graded fruit. * Cleans and lubricates chains, bearings, and machine gears, using rags and grease gun. * Repairs, replaces, and adjusts malfunctioning parts of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends beet washing equipment and elevators that clean sugar beets preparatory to slicing. Respnsibilities include: * Starts elevators and washing equipment, and turns valves to regulate water flow through washing vat. * Signals flumer I to adjust flow of beets in flume, using telephone. * Turns valves to drain water from washing vat. * Cleans debris from vat, using water hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment, such as elevators, drags, and scrolls, that conveys wet sugar to granulator scrolls and dry sugar to separator screens. Respnsibilities include: * Signals granulator operator with bell signal to stop granulator when content of wet-sugar bins is low or dry-sugar bins are congested. * Washes equipment with hose and directs sweetwater (wash water containing sugar) into recovery system. * Shuts off flow of sugar to each bin periodically to prevent caking and hardening of sugar in bins and conveying equipment. * Refills bin after emptying.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that compress and extrude bulk yeast into continuous bars, cut bars into cakes of specified size, and wrap and heat-seal cakes. Respnsibilities include: * Signals worker to fill hopper of extruder with yeast. * Positions and threads roll of paper, plastic film, or foil through roller guide of wrapping mechanism, and starts machines. * Removes yeast cakes from conveyor emerging from cutter and feeds cakes into wrapping machine, discarding cracked or malformed cakes. * Observes cutting and wrapping operation to detect jamming or twisted wrapping. * Packs wrapped yeast cakes in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that compress and extrude bulk yeast into continuous bars, cut bars into cakes of specified size, and wrap and heat-seal cakes. Respnsibilities include: * Signals worker to fill hopper of extruder with yeast. * Positions and threads roll of paper, plastic film, or foil through roller guide of wrapping mechanism, and starts machines. * Removes yeast cakes from conveyor emerging from cutter and feeds cakes into wrapping machine, discarding cracked or malformed cakes. * Observes cutting and wrapping operation to detect jamming or twisted wrapping. * Packs wrapped yeast cakes in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and examines cigarette filter plugs (tips) discharged from cigarette filter-making machine. Respnsibilities include: * Picks up double handful of plugs and examines them for defects in cutting, gluing, size, and filling. * Inspects both ends of plugs and places plugs in tray. * Removes defective plugs from tray. * Notifies cigarette-filter-making-machine operator of defective product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and examines cigarette filter plugs (tips) discharged from cigarette filter-making machine. Respnsibilities include: * Picks up double handful of plugs and examines them for defects in cutting, gluing, size, and filling. * Inspects both ends of plugs and places plugs in tray. * Removes defective plugs from tray. * Notifies cigarette-filter-making-machine operator of defective product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and examines cigarettes discharged from cigarette-making machine and places them in cigarette tray preparatory to packaging. Respnsibilities include: * Picks up double handful of cigarettes from conveyor and observes cigarettes to detect defective gluing, filling, and printing of brand name. * Places cigarettes in tray and pushes cigarettes against back of tray to even edges, using hand or paddle. * Places defective cigarettes in separate container. * Periodically inserts 20 cigarettes in tray gauge to verify length, circumference, and location of brand name. * Notifies cigarette-filter-making-machine operator of machine malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers