1. Tends machines in tandem that coat surfaces of decorative hardwood-veneer panels with stain, paint, or wax: Mixes stain according to formula, using graduated container, mixing drum, and portable mixer. 2. Connects hoses of coating machines to containers of stain, paint, and wax. 3. Measures thickness of panels, using steel …
1. Tends open-developer machine that develops dye in dyed or printed cloth, removes excess color from cloth, and wets cloth before soaping process: Threads end of roll of cloth through machine rolls. 2. Turns steam valves to heat machine tank and opens valves to admit specified chemicals into tank and …
1. Inspects tubular metal equipment as assistant to OIL-PIPE INSPECTOR by performing any combination of following tasks: Inspects interior and exterior of tubing, casing, drill pipe, and other tubular metal equipment used in drilling and producing oil or gas wells to detect incrustations, cracks, or other defects, using mechanical and …
1. Assists OIL-WELL-SERVICE OPERATOR in controlling blending and pumping equipment to treat oil or gas wells and permeable rock formations with cement, acid, or chemicals: Drives truck equipped with acid pumps, mixers and related equipment to well site. 2. Unloads and assembles pipes and pumping equipment, using handtools. 3. Dumps …
1. Makes ready and operates web or sheet-fed offset printing press to print single and multicolor copy from lithographic plates: Examines job order to determine quantity to be printed, stock specifications, colors, and special printing instructions. 2. Measures plate thickness and inserts packing sheets on plate cylinder to build up …
1. Tends manually controlled offset press that prints lettering on products, such as dial faces and plastic containers: Rolls machine carriage, equipped with pair of clean and inked cylinders, back and forth over press bed to ink engraved plates or dies and transfer impression to clean cylinder. 2. Positions dial …
1. Repairs and services office machines, such as adding, accounting, and calculating machines, and typewriters, using handtools, power tools, micrometers, and welding equipment: Operates machines to test moving parts and to listen to sounds of machines to locate causes of trouble. 2. Disassembles machine and examines parts, such as gears, …
1. Sets up and operates one or more automatic machines to shear, form, and punch nut blanks from hot or cold metal bar or coiled stock: Installs punching and shearing dies in machine, using wrenches, rule, hammer, and gauges. 2. Threads end of coiled stock from feeder reel through straightening …
1. Tends machine that grinds nut meats into meal: Turns thumbscrew or handwheels to adjust distance between grinding rollers. 2. Fills machine hopper with almond meats, and starts machine. 3. Places container at discharge end of machine to catch emerging nut meal. 4. Inspects sample of ground nut meal for …
1. Sets up and operates numerical control machines or machining centers to perform various machine functions, such as cutting, drilling, milling, reaming, boring, and broaching of metallic and nonmetallic workpieces, utilizing knowledge of machine tool capabilities, machinability of materials, and shop math: Reads and interprets blueprints, planning sheets, sketches, and …
1. Performs any combination of following tasks to make ice cream novelties, such as pies, cake rolls, cones, and vari-colored packs: Ladles fruit sauce over ice cream pie. 2. Places layer of cake roll on tray and sets tray on conveyor. 3. Cuts continuous ribbon of ice cream deposited on …
1. Tends series of machines that mix, knead, roll, and cut dough to make noodles: Weighs and measures specified ingredients according to standard formulas, and dumps them into mixing machine. 2. Moves lever to empty mixed ingredients into kneading machine. 3. Feeds kneaded dough into rolling machine that forms dough …
1. Operates machine to blend ingredients, and knead, extrude, and cut dough used to make noodles: Installs specified die in press, using handtools. 2. Adjusts press rollers to regulate thickness of dough, using micrometer and handtool. 3. Dumps premeasured quantity of eggs into tub, sets meter, and turns spigot to …
1. Operates machines and equipment to freeze, cut, harden, and wrap stickless ice cream novelties: Turns valve and sets thermostat to circulate refrigerant and maintain specified temperature in hardening box. 2. Inserts forming fixtures in nozzles of ice cream feedlines that extrude specified shape of ice cream ribbon for bar, …
1. Tends machine that cuts metal plates, sheets, or structural shapes into specified radial or irregular shapes by action of reciprocating cutting knives or punches: Positions and clamps specified cutter or punch into ram and bed of machine. 2. Turns thumbscrews to adjust depth of stroke to thickness of metal. …
1. Operates computer to lay out graphic display of parts to be machined in optimum arrangement and generate control media for numerical-control drilling, routing, and cutting machines: Reviews shop orders to determine job specifications and nesting requirements. 2. Sorts shop orders into groups according to compatibility factors, such as quantity …
1. Off bears rolls of nonwoven fabric from stitch-bonding machine: Observes fabric winding into rolls to detect defects. 2. Cuts defective fabric from roll, using scissors, and joins ends together with needle and thread. 3. Doffs full rolls, using chain hoist.
1. Services and repairs plastic, neon and illuminated signs in response to trouble calls: Ascends ladder or operates hydraulic or electric hoist to examine sign and determine cause of malfunction. 2. Performs operations, such as rewiring, removing defective parts, and installing new parts, using electricians’ tools. 3. Removes sign or …
1. Tends tufting machine equipped with pattern roller and solenoids that control machine needles to tuft intricate designs: Selects pattern according to specifications and positions pattern on machine, using handtools. 2. Pulls yarn ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes to thread machine. 3. Draws material under machine needles, …
1. Sets up and operates battery of machines in tandem to produce needle felt products from raw materials: Turns screws to adjust comb and stripper rolls of garnett machine to produce specified bat I. 2. Installs specified needle board into needle loom to punch together loose bats into needle felt. …
1. Sets up and operates loom with assistance of NEEDLE-LOOM-OPERATOR HELPER to produce needle felt: Selects and bolts specified needle boards to loom holders, according to work order, using wrenches. 2. Installs speed gears or turns knob to synchronize speed of feeder with action of needle board. 3. Threads bat …
1. Tends loom that produces needle felt: Places roll of felt bat into feed holder of loom. 2. Aligns bat on conveyor, threads end of bat through needle bed of loom, and attaches felt to rewind spindle. 3. Starts machine, watches feed gauge, and stops machine when specified length of …
1. Operates machine and equipment to stitch-bond synthetic fibers to scrim to produce nonwoven fabric: Turns dials on control panel to regulate conveyor speeds, feed rate of scrim and fiber stock through machine, roll pressure, and steam in rollers. 2. Adjust compression rollers following thickness specifications. 3. Starts machine and …
1. Tends machine that raises fibers on surface of cloth to give cloth soft, fluffy texture: Positions truck of folded cloth at entry end of machine or mounts roll of cloth on machine brackets. 2. Sews cloth to leader in napper with surface to be napped contacting napping cylinder. 3. …
1. Tends calender machine that imparts luster and finish simultaneously to several strands of narrow fabrics, such as tape and ribbon: Threads ends around rollers of machine and starts strands into cans, or ties ends to ends in machine. 2. Starts machine and observes strands of fabric entering machine to …
