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U.S. Department of Labor
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A professional who tends batch or continuous rotary driers that remove moisture from solid chemical materials. Respnsibilities include: * Dumps or shovels materials into batch drier chamber, or starts feed conveyors of continuous drier. * Starts drying chamber rotating. * Admits steam or hot air to drying chamber until specified heat is attained, as indicated by temperature chart recorders and gauges. * Opens vacuum valves to withdraw accumulated vapors where materials require drying at subatmospheric pressure. * Stops rotation of drying chamber to dump dried materials, or starts discharge conveyor to empty contents of chamber and transfer dried product to storage, packaging, or further processing. * May tend auxiliary equipment, such as condensers and vacuum pumps. * Records operating data in equipment log, such as temperatures, pressures, drying time, and hourly production. * May feel discharged materials for specified dryness. * May submit samples to control laboratory for moisture analysis. * May regulate drier temperature, and speed of conveyors and rotary chamber, according to knowledge of process and material being dried.
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A professional who tends spray driers that evaporate water from slurries, forming caked or powdered product. Respnsibilities include: * Pumps slurry to atomizer nozzle in drier and regulates spray of slurry as instructed. * Observes temperature recorders and adjusts valves, controls, and dampers to heat or cool and direct air through drier to evaporate water or solidify slurry. * Observes discharge conveyor for malfunctions or jamming to maintain uninterrupted flow of dried materials to storage. * Rakes out accumulated cake or powder remaining in drier, and clears clogged lines, using length of wire. * May place empty drums under discharge end of spray tower to be filled with specified amount of powdered emulsifier. * May tend auxiliary equipment, such as cyclone filters and scrubbing tower to refine product or recover usable materials.
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A professional who tends spray driers that evaporate water from slurries, forming caked or powdered product. Respnsibilities include: * Pumps slurry to atomizer nozzle in drier and regulates spray of slurry as instructed. * Observes temperature recorders and adjusts valves, controls, and dampers to heat or cool and direct air through drier to evaporate water or solidify slurry. * Observes discharge conveyor for malfunctions or jamming to maintain uninterrupted flow of dried materials to storage. * Rakes out accumulated cake or powder remaining in drier, and clears clogged lines, using length of wire. * May place empty drums under discharge end of spray tower to be filled with specified amount of powdered emulsifier. * May tend auxiliary equipment, such as cyclone filters and scrubbing tower to refine product or recover usable materials.
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A professional who performs following duties to remove moisture from devulcanized scrap rubber. Respnsibilities include: * Cleans adhering scrap stock from drier and shaker screens, using handtools and airhose. * Dumps bags of soapstone into hopper of mechanical shaker that sifts soapstone to prevent tacky surfaces of stock from adhering to shaker. * Opens and closes discharge chutes of drier as instructed. * May move dried stock to storage bins on handtrucks.
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A professional who assists drier operator vi in drying glutinous material, such as gelatin and glue. * Starts equipment and turns valves as directed. * Moves glutinous material to drier, using handtruck. * Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
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A professional who tends steam-heating equipment that cures rubber in jacketed firehose. Respnsibilities include: * Lifts precut lengths of specified rubber tubing and braided fabric hose jacket onto table. * Dusts rubber tubing with soapstone to prevent tubing from sticking to jacket. * Turns crank to wind tubing onto stock wheel. * Aligns jacket with mechanical threading device and clamps threading fixture to end of rubber tubing. * Starts winch that pulls tubing into jacket. * Lifts and clamps ends of jacketed hose to fixtures on steam lines. * Presses hose into curing cavities on table that hold hose in flattened position when curing. * Observes gauges and turns valve to inject steam into hose at specified temperature and pressure for curing. * Places cured hose on storage rack.
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A professional who tends burners supplying heat to retorts (reaction vessels) to facilitate heating of materials to produce chemical products. Respnsibilities include: * Moves controls to regulate flow of gas or oil to burners to maintain temperature of retorts at specified reading. * Cleans and repairs retorts, using handtools, scrapers, brushes, and cleaning agents.
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A professional who tends kettles that boil soap ingredients. Respnsibilities include: * Opens valves to admit alkali, fat, tallow, lye, and steam into kettles. * Observes temperature gauges and rate of boiling and turns valves to regulate temperatures. * Draws samples and delivers them to laboratory. * Adds soda and water, according to instructions, to bring mixture to specifications, using scoop and hose. * Opens valves to drain off glycerine, water, and sludge. * May stir soap solutions with wooden paddle to promote blending.
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A professional who tends gas- or oil-fired kiln that burns lime sludge to recover lime. Respnsibilities include: * Turns panel controls to adjust burner and flow of sludge into kiln according to temperature gauges. * Starts conveyor that carries lime from kiln to hopper of slaking machine. * May tend washers and filters that remove cooking liquor from sludge before it is burned.
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A professional who tends conveyor, and spraying and drying unit that cools and dries milled rubber stock. Respnsibilities include: * Monitors flow of rubber stock as it drops from mixer through batch-off mill onto conveyor. * Removes stock adhering to mill rollers with long-handled scraper and frees stock if it piles up on conveyor. * Adjusts conveyor speed and turns valves to regulate water spray and airflow that cools and dries stock.
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