- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that cuts cakes of pressed tobacco (cheeses), into granular form for smoking tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cake of tobacco on bed of machine and pushes cake between corrugated feed rollers.
* Catches cut tobacco on tray and feeds ends of slices between rollers, keeping slices in line.
* Changes dull knife blades, using wrench.
* Cleans machine, using steam hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts cakes of pressed tobacco (cheeses), into granular form for smoking tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cake of tobacco on bed of machine and pushes cake between corrugated feed rollers.
* Catches cut tobacco on tray and feeds ends of slices between rollers, keeping slices in line.
* Changes dull knife blades, using wrench.
* Cleans machine, using steam hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that pulverize chopped tobacco into snuff and sift snuff through screens to remove oversized particles. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses button to start hammer mill and observes operation of machine to ensure that tobacco is being pulverized into snuff, according to company specifications.
* Pushes lever to start screener vibrating to sift pulverized snuff.
* Picks up and rubs handful of snuff between hands to verify that oversized particles have been removed.
* Adjusts hammer mill or changes filter on screener as needed, using handtools.
* Observes flow of snuff through screw-type conveyor to ensure that sufficient amount of snuff is fed to packing machine from screener.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic-sorting machine that separates fruits, vegetables, shrimp, or pickles, according to sizes. Respnsibilities include:
* Places baskets, tubs, or crates beneath discharge outlets of machine.
* Starts machine and dumps boxes of fruit or vegetables in feed chute or opens supply chute to feed material into machine.
* Removes full containers from discharge outlets and replaces them with empty ones.
* Cleans, oils, and greases machine, using oilcan or grease gun.
* May post identifying information on containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes foreign matter, such as rocks, mold, and insects, from spices. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps spices into machine hopper.
* Attaches empty bag to discharge end of machine and starts machine.
* Inspects cleaned spices to verify that foreign matter is removed.
* May sew ends of filled bags, using power-sewing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that grind spices, such as cinnamon and chili pepper. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens storage hopper gate to fill hammer or rolling-type grinding mill with spice.
* Moves lever to control spice feed and places containers under sifting screen or discharge spout.
* Examines crushed spices to verify consistency of grind.
* Cleans or replaces rollers, sifters, and other machine parts.
* May be designated according to spice ground as Chili-Pepper Grinder; Cinnamon Grinder; or according to type of grinding machine tended as Spice Miller, Hammer Mill; Spice Miller, Rolling Mill.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that flattens tobacco stems or stems and veins of tobacco leaves. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor that feeds tobacco to rollers of machine and forks tobacco onto conveyor.
* Regulates flow of steam and water to moisten tobacco and clean and cool rollers.
* May remove flattened leaves from machine and stack leaves in pile or fork flattened stems into hogsheads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes stems from leaves of tobacco and arranges stemmed leaves into books. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and feeds leaf between rollers.
* Removes stacks of stripped leaves and ties leaves together.
* Separates leaves according to books of right or left halves.
* Dumps stems from machine into cans.
* May be designated according to type of tobacco stemmed as Binder Stripper, Machine; Wrapper Stripper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts tobacco into shreds for use in making cigarettes. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts feeders, ordering drum, conveyors, and cutting machine.
* Observes operation of conveyors and cutting machine and pulls lever to regulate flow of tobacco on conveyor to prevent jamming.
* May tighten bolts that hold knives, or may change knives, using wrench and screwdriver, and maintain record of knives used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines equipped with guillotine knives or bandsaw, stick pusher, and deheader, that automatically strip, dehead, and cut macaroni long goods to specified length. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts elevator to position rack of dried macaroni beside machine.
* Pulls machine arm that lifts drying stick (rod) of macaroni from rack onto chain conveyor that feeds it onto machine bed.
* Starts deheading hammer, stick pusher, and knives, and feeds macaroni onto packaging conveyor.
* Starts machine that automatically strips and dehooks macaroni, and passes it through preset bandsaw to cut product into specified lengths for packaging.
* Removes cut macaroni from trough and places in box on packaging conveyor line.
Industry:Professional careers
