1. Tends machine that scrapes flesh or hair from pelts, shears wool on sheepskin to specified length, or shaves hides to uniform thickness: Turns handwheel or setscrew to adjust feed roller to specified height. 2. Places pelt or hide on roller and presses pedal to raise roller that feeds hide …
1. Sets up and operates power shear to cut metal objects, such as plates, sheets, slabs, billets, or bars to specified dimensions and angle: Turns handwheels to adjust rake and pressure of blade. 2. Positions and clamps stops and side guides to set length and angle of cut, using rule, …
1. Shakes out, aligns, and folds surgical hose following wet processing to prepare hose for wrinkle-free drying in hot house: Empties bag of hose on worktable, unrolls bundle of hose, and extends hose on worktable. 2. Pulls and aligns heels, toes, and toe openings of hose, and lifts, extends, and …
1. Examines rolls or folded cuts of dyed or printed cloth for variations in color shade, and sorts cloth according to shade, preparatory to shipment. 2. Cuts off-shade portions from cloth with scissors. 3. Stacks identical cuts of cloth together on handtruck. 4. May compare swatches from opposite ends of …
1. Fastens cloth onto stretching frame and brushes out nap after sizing solution is applied: Places sized cloth on glued surface of frame. 2. Blends size on cloth with brush. 3. Brushes cloth with straight strokes to smooth and lay nap in one direction. 4. Stretches frame and cuts cloth …
1. Chains hind legs of stunned animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs, to hoist or conveyor that suspends animals for slaughtering process. 2. May place trolley hooks or gamb stick in leg tendon of animal to raise them.
1. Sets up and adjusts molding and coremaking machines, such as roll-over, squeeze, coremaking, and shell molding: Obtains specified pattern, moves pattern to work station manually or using hoist, and bolts it to bed of mold or core forming machine, using wrenches. 2. Adjusts stops, height of squeeze or roll-over …
1. Sets up and adjusts battery of machines that paint, stamp, tip, or trim wooden pencils: Installs and adjusts feed mechanisms, guide rollers, tracks, machine fittings and attachments, according to size and shape of pencils, using handtools and gauges. 2. Adjusts controls, such as setscrews and cams to synchronize machine …
1. Sets up and adjusts can filling and sealing machines and caser machines to package juice in juice processing establishment: Selects filler tubes according to size of cans to be filled and installs and adjusts tubes in filling and sealing machines, following production specifications and using wrench. 2. Adjusts tension …
1. Restores street railway service after power failures, accidents, and equipment breakdowns, working as member of crew: Drives truck equipped with tools and materials to job site. 2. Diagnoses cause of difficulty to facilitate restoration of service. 3. Repairs or replaces parts or materials, such as trolley wire, insulators, conductor-bar …
1. Repairs defects in self-sealing rubber fuel tanks for use on airplanes: Examines fuel tanks to detect location and extent of defects, such as blisters, ply separations, cracks, and loose seams. 2. Cuts away rubber in defective area with knife and smooths edges with portable buffer. 3. Positions and cements …
1. Builds up layers of synthetic and rubber sheeting on plaster form to make self-sealing fuel tanks for airplanes: Brushes solution on specified plaster form to provide smooth surface. 2. Fits specified layers of synthetic and rubber sheeting on form and smooths out wrinkles with hands and hand roller. 3. …
1. Supervises and coordinates activities of clerical workers of police department or personally maintains payroll, personnel, and similar records. 2. Swears in and issues appointment papers to police recruits. 3. May assume custody of valuables deposited with police.
1. Tends machine that presses belts to attain V-shape: Stretches belts around molds and fastens several molds together with metal rod and nut. 2. Positions assembled molds between twin parallel power rollers, using hoist. 3. Threads water-soaked cloth liner through tension guides and around molds. 4. Pulls pressure roll down …
1. Tends roller mill and auxiliary equipment, such as pumps and agitators that facilitate production of phosphoric acid by strong-acid process from reaction of sulfuric acid with ground phosphate rock. 2. Pumps acid into tank trucks and loads ground phosphate rock into hopper trucks as directed.
1. Smooths brazed seam of copper, nickel, silver, or brass musical instruments, using power roller or hammer: Files seam, using metal file. 2. Places instrument on anvil or mandrel with seam uppermost. 3. Starts hammer and moves instrument piece across anvil to expose seam to hammer, or positions workpiece under …
1. Tends machine that smooths and presses seams of shoe parts, such as counters, quarters, and joints of uppers by following methods: Positions part under pounder or roller and guides part while machine pounds or rolls seams flat and smooth. 2. Positions part over or under preheated form and depresses …
1. Tends machine that automatically seals envelopes and prints postage and postmark onto envelopes or tape to be affixed onto packages: Turns indicator dials to specified letters and numbers to be printed. 2. Starts machine and positions envelopes onto feed tray or secures roll of tape on machine spindles. 3. …
1. Tends machine that opens cloth to full width after cloth is processed in rope form: Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine, or threads cloth through guides and rollers, over beaters that revolve against direction of cloth to cause cloth to open and over scrimp rail …
1. Seals storage battery cells in containers to form airtight and watertight battery: Loads thermostatically controlled kettle with chunks of compound. 2. Ignites burners and adjusts temperature controls to heat and melt compound. 3. Opens valve to drain compound into pot and empties compound into tank. 4. Holds hose attached …
1. Operates electric-screwdown mechanism on rolling mill to set draft for reducing slabs, ingots, or billets to specified dimensions, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties: Reads rolling order for dimensions, properties, and temperature of product to be rolled. 2. Determines, from experience, number of passes and amount of …
1. Operates screen machine that folds and bonds edges of vinyl sheets to reinforcing strips and punches holes in strips to form shower curtains: Selects roll of vinyl specified on work order, inserts metal cylinder in roll, positions roll in holding brackets of machine, and turns knobs to secure cylinder. …
1. Sets up and adjusts silk screen printing equipment used to hand print multicolored designs on wallpaper: Adjusts feed rollers and spindle reel to specified tension, using wrench. 2. Compares ink prepared for printing run with master color swatch to confirm accuracy of match. 3. Examines printing screen for sharpness …
1. Performs variety of duties to assist automatic screen-printing machine operator in printing multicolored patterns on textiles: Turns thumbscrews and loosens and tightens bolts, using wrench, to remove, replace, adjust, or align screens in bed of screen printing machine as instructed by machine operator. 2. Pushes new roll of cloth …
