- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who feeds waste paper into machine that cuts paper into small pieces for use as building insulation.
* Fills sack with cut paper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines rags to verify that they have been sorted according to color, quality, type, and condition, and that foreign matter, such as clips, buttons, and elastic, has been removed.
* Weighs rags and records weight.
* Trucks rags to cutting machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines rags to verify that they have been sorted according to color, quality, type, and condition, and that foreign matter, such as clips, buttons, and elastic, has been removed.
* Weighs rags and records weight.
* Trucks rags to cutting machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates battery of stationary or rotary steam digesters to cook wood chips with soda ash or acid to make pulp for use in manufacture of paper and insulation board. Respnsibilities include:
* Signals digester-operator helper to charge digesters with specified amounts of chips and chemicals.
* Turns valves or moves panel controls to admit steam into digesters, to raise temperature and pressure within specified limits, and to start rotary digesters.
* Monitors temperature, flow, and pressure gauges and charts to ensure that chips are cooked according to specifications.
* Tests samples of digester liquid by titration or standard color chart to determine completion of cooking process.
* Opens valves of stationary digester to blow cooked pulp into pit, or pulls lever to tip rotary digester and dump contents.
* Compiles production records.
* May be designated according to process as Cooker, Soda; Cooker, Sulfate; Cooker, Sulfite.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cylinder drier that dries sheets of matrix paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets controls of drier to regulate temperature and speed of cylinder and position of belt.
* Starts drier and feeds wet sheets between revolving cylinder and belt.
* Observes gauges and feels dried sheets for moisture content, and adjusts controls to achieve specified dryness.
* Gauges thickness of fiberboard and matrix mats, using micrometer calipers.
* Sorts and records mats according to thickness and stacks them on skids.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends oven drier at back end of pulp-making machine that removes moisture from pulp sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes gauges and charts, and turns valves to regulate flow of steam and control oven temperature.
* Aligns sheets on conveyor to prevent jams.
* Regulates speed of conveyor to ensure that dried sheets conform to moisture content specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends oven drier at back end of pulp-making machine that removes moisture from pulp sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes gauges and charts, and turns valves to regulate flow of steam and control oven temperature.
* Aligns sheets on conveyor to prevent jams.
* Regulates speed of conveyor to ensure that dried sheets conform to moisture content specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cooker that cooks logs for processing into pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts bottom of cooker in place.
* Opens gate of loading chute and guides logs into cooker with pike pole.
* Turns valve to fill cooker with steam to cook wood for specified period.
* Unbolts bottom of cooker and loads logs onto handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that threads continuous sheet of paper through moisture-conditioning cabinet to dampen paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to regulate flow of air, steam, and water in cabinet to control temperature and moisture.
* Places roll of paper on reel stand, using hoist, and wraps end of paper around threader bar.
* Starts machine that automatically threads paper between feed and tension rolls in cabinet.
* Wraps end of dampened paper sheet on core shaft of rewinder reel.
* Adjusts tension of paper by adding or removing weights on chain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic press that removes moisture from fiberboard, laps, or sheets of wet pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes loaded truck under hydraulic pressing plate and starts machine to lower ram and press water from pulp.
* Pulls truck away from press and pushes it to baling area.
* May stack layers of laps or sheets on handtruck, placing wire mesh or fiber mats between layers to facilitate pressing water from stock.
Industry:Professional careers
