1. Assigns and dispatches sleeping cars to railroad company requesting cars: Keeps record of car movement and where assigned, using train schedules and movement charts. 2. Assigns CONDUCTORS, PULLMAN to trains for trips and notifies them of assignments.
1. Verifies identity of freight cars entering classification yard to ensure that trains are complete upon arrival: Records information, such as car number, type of car, car owner, and date and time of arrival. 2. Compares information with manifest and prepares report showing discrepancies. 3. Examines door seals on cars …
1. Fabricates and installs braces to prevent shifting or damage to products shipped in railroad cars: Determines size of bracing needed, using tape measure. 2. Selects lumber and cuts boards, using power saw. 3. Assembles boards and fits or wedges braces into position to prevent load from shifting during transit. …
1. Tends machine that inserts and tamps washers and affixes cover to dry-cell containers: Inserts washers and dumps caps into feeding mechanisms. 2. Starts machine and observes mirror to inspect units passing on conveyor to ensure washers are at prescribed depth. 3. Inspects capped cells for defects and offcenter carbon …
1. Castrates cockerels to prevent development of sexual characteristics: Ascertains that cockerels have not been fed or watered for specified period of time. 2. Binds legs and wings or pinions birds with weights and makes incision between cockerel’s last two ribs or beneath and behind wings, using surgical knife or …
1. Lays out canvas, plastic, rubber, and other materials and fabricates and assembles material into sails, awnings, tents, and tarpaulins: Lays out full scale drawings on sail loft floor, according to blueprints or sketches, using chalk. 2. Cuts pattern from paper according to full scale drawing. 3. Marks outline on …
1. Soaks canvas in water to shrink and prepare canvas for use in garment manufacturing: Unrolls bolt of canvas and folds canvas in shrinking tank. 2. Turns valve to admit water into tank, soaking canvas for specified periods of time. 3. Lifts canvas from tank after shrinking and hangs canvas …
1. Repairs damaged or worn tent, awning, or other canvas articles: Spreads canvas on worktable and examines it for holes, tears, and worn areas. 2. Trims edges of damaged area, using scissors or knife. 3. Patches holes, sews tears, or darns defective area, using needle and thread or sewing machine. …
1. Operates jumpbasting sewing machine to temporarily attach canvas interlining to front of coat. 2. Positions front of coat on canvas interlining and bastes outer surface, allowing fullness as required by style of coat. 3. Performs duties as described under SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, REGULAR EQUIPMENT Master Title.
1. Threads shroud lines through perpendicular seams of parachute canopy for connecting canopy to parachute harness: Spreads canopy on table and places vent over holders. 2. Secures end of line in barbs of insertion needle and working from interior dome of canopy outward, inserts shroud lines through holes in opposite …
1. Tends machines that automatically wash, fill, and seal cans in cannery: Pushes buttons and levers on control panel to start machines and monitors machine operations to verify that can washer, can food and liquid filler, can sealer, and conveyor mechanisms function in prescribed sequence. 2. Observes cans leaving machines …
1. Installs or replaces prewoven panels of cane, willow, or rattan in furniture frames: Cuts damaged panel from furniture frame, using knife. 2. Pries wooden splines from grooves in frame, using chisel. 3. Places frame in water to soften dried glue and adhering panel of cane or willow, and scrapes …
1. Weaves twine and strips of cane or other flexible material onto furniture frames to form woven seats, backs, or other panels: Cuts strips or twine to length, using knife. 2. Inserts strips or twine through frame holes and interlaces strips within frame openings in horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions …
1. Cuts cane and rattan for use in furniture manufacture: Places rolls of cane on holding device, and pulls cane to mark on work surface according to length specified; or positions rattan on work surface to cut ends for mitering. 2. Pulls lever to lower blade and cut cane or …
1. Tends candy making machines that mix candy ingredients: Weighs, measures, mixes, and dumps specified ingredients into cooking utensils. 2. Opens discharge valve, and starts pumps or tilts cooker or kettle to pour cooked candy onto tables or into beaters. 3. May form soft candies by spreading candy onto cooling …
1. Pours and spreads batches of cooked candy, such as fudge, caramel, or toffee, in pans or trays, or onto temperature-controlled slabs preparatory to cutting: Covers pan, tray, or slab with wax paper, dusts lined pan with powdered sugar, or greases with shortening to prevent sticking. 2. Spreads candy to …
1. Pours liquid candy into chilled molds to form solid candy figures, such as animals or Christmas trees: Dumps or pours candy into warming pan and turns dial to heat product to pouring temperature. 2. Stirs candy to facilitate melting and pours it into chilled mold. 3. Taps or tilts …
1. Mixes and cooks candy ingredients by following, modifying, or formulating recipes to produce product of specified flavor, texture, and color: Cooks ingredients. 2. Examines, feels, and tastes product to evaluate color, texture, and flavor. 3. Adds ingredients or modifies cooking and forming operations as needed. 4. May direct CANDY-MAKER …
1. Dips candy centers, fruit, or nuts into coatings to coat, decorate, and identify product: Scoops liquid coating material onto slab of heated dipping table and kneads material, such as chocolate, fondant, or icing to attain specified consistency. 2. Drops candy into mass and swirls candy about until thoroughly coated, …
1. Cuts candy into squares, using knife consisting of series of disk blades evenly spaced on shaft with handle at each end. 2. Dips knife in water periodically to prevent candy from adhering to knife. 3. May separate pieces of candy and arrange them on trays. 4. May be designated …
1. Sets up and operates machine to extrude sheets of candle wax or candles: Reviews instructions to determine type product to be produced. 2. Installs specified die plates in machine, using handtools. 3. Threads wick material through machine guides. 4. Turns valve and dials to transfer wax to machine and …
1. Tends machine that wraps candles in plastic material, decorative paper or foil: Installs roll of wrapping material in machine, and threads end of roll through machine guides. 2. Moves controls to set suction pickup mechanism for specified vacuum to produce uniformly wrapped product without damage to wrapper. 3. Places …
1. Tends cast-molding machine that forms candles: Fills machine with liquid wax and turns valve to force steam into jackets to heat molds. 2. Turns valve to transfer wax to molds. 3. Scrapes flash from molds, using knife, and depresses pedal to eject candles into trays. 4. Cuts candlewick ends …
1. Molds candles by hand: Places wick over center of one section of mold, presses mold halves together and fastens with rubberband. 2. Pours wax through opening and places mold in water to harden wax. 3. Separates mold and removes candle. 4. Scrapes excess wax from candle surface, using knife, …
