- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who inspects leaves of tobacco before and after stripping to determine whether leaves are suitable for use as binders. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects each leaf for holes and tears.
* Places leaves to be used as binders in bundle for stripping and discards defective leaves.
* Removes defective leaves from books and places books of perfect leaves in container.
* May sprinkle water on books that appear dry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects leaves of tobacco before and after stripping to determine whether leaves are suitable for use as binders. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects each leaf for holes and tears.
* Places leaves to be used as binders in bundle for stripping and discards defective leaves.
* Removes defective leaves from books and places books of perfect leaves in container.
* May sprinkle water on books that appear dry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines shellfish meats under ultraviolet light and removes pieces of shell, preparatory to canning. Respnsibilities include:
* Places tray of shelled meats on table, or observes meats passing on conveyor under ultraviolet generators that cause shell particles to glow.
* Turns and stirs meats by hand to view all sides and picks out and discards bits of shell, viscera, and foreign matter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws knife along ends of cigar molds to cut off excess tobacco protruding from molds.
* Loads trimmed molds onto truck for removal to rolling department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes contaminated char (activated carbon) from corn syrup filters for reclaiming. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions receiving platform at discharge gate of filter to unload used char.
* Removes nuts to open discharge gate, using wrench.
* Loosens and pulls char onto receiving platform and into chute to conveyor.
* Sweeps filters to remove remaining char.
* Arranges and smooths blankets that cover bottom plates of filter.
* Replaces gate and tightens nuts evenly to prevent warp and leakage.
* Cleans char from platform and floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares char filter tanks for sugar-liquor filtration. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches hoses between filters and manifold, using wrenches.
* Removes filter covers, using block and tackle.
* Positions char chutes and starts conveyors to fill empty filters.
* Attaches hose from manifold to weir box for mixing liquor with char while filling.
* Covers filters after filling.
* Opens air vents to purge air from filled filters.
* Cleans hoses and drip pans.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions spout of portable tank containing starch solution over series of boxes lined with cloth and opens valve to fill each box.
* Inverts boxes after water has drained through cloth to remove solid starch cakes, or scoops out starch with shovel, and places product on handtruck for transfer to kiln.
* May move levers controlling flow of starch into steel casings and hang casings on hooks of overhead conveyor leading to kiln and be designated Starch Presser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who separates yolk and glair (white) of eggs for use in food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Strikes eggs against bar, allows contents to fall into bowl, and throws empty shells into receptacle.
* Smells broken eggs to detect spoiled ones and dumps them into waste container.
* Pours broken eggs from bowl over egg-separating device.
* Pulls lever to retain yolk and to allow white to fall into cup below.
* May be designated according to specialization as Egg Smeller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who separates individual leaves from pads of tobacco leaves pressed together in shipping.
* Arranges leaves in rows on screen racks.
* Assists other workers in carrying and lifting screen racks to storage racks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces soiled filter cakes in beer filter, using handtools.
* Disassembles filter press and separates plates (frames) to remove old filter pads.
* Positions clean cakes between plates and reassembles filter.
Industry:Professional careers
