- Industria: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who inspects automatic electric typewriter, used as part of data processing unit, for conformance to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Plugs machine connections into electrical outlets.
* Tests performance of typewriter by pressing keys, listening for noise variations, and noting malfunction of mechanisms, such as trip margin stop, backspacer, carriage, and shift.
* Examines typed copy to determine skipping and misalignment of characters.
* Marks sample sheet with designated symbols to indicate defects.
* Routes machine, sample sheet, and work ticket to readjusting or repairing departments.
* May test performance of typewriter, using automatic programmed simulator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines typed characters and exterior features of typewriter, such as serial number and carriage model, for conformance to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Verifies serial number, model carriage, front panel, and type style against specifications.
* Measures width of type guide, using go-not-go gauge.
* Compares arrangement of key tops with diagram stick to verify positions of characters.
* Types line-of-write on sample sheet and examines typing for defects, such as characters above or below line-of-write, heavy or light impressions, cutting into or embossing paper, and uneven spacing or tilted characters.
* Marks sample sheet with prescribed symbols to indicate defects.
* Places sheet, ticket, and machine on conveyor for realigning or stamps inspection number on tickets and papers of approved machine and posts serial number to production report.
* Determines alignment and looseness of specified parts, using screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who polishes watch dial blanks, using abrasive belt or wheel. Responsibilities include:
* Holds blanks against rotating belt or wheel to buff dials, using jeweler's rouge.
* May rub dial over hone to impart distinctive mat finish to dial and be designated watch-dial stoner.
* May polish raised numerals on watch dials and be designated numeral polisher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who makes and repairs contoured wire frames and retainers for teeth used in partial dentures, using power tools and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Examines model of oral impression and reads dentist's prescription to determine design of wire frame.
* Marks pencil tracings on surface of model to indicate position of wire clasps, using surveyor. Cuts wire to specified lengths, using wirecutter.
* Bends and shapes wire around tooth impressions or along base of model, using pliers, knife, and tweezers.
* Applies investment to wire sections and model to hold sections in alignment, using spatula.
* Welds or solders wire joints, using special welding and soldering tools.
* Removes investment.
* Grinds and polishes wire frame to lustrous finish, using electric grinding and polishing wheel.
* Reworks or replaces wire sections and missing teeth to repair partial dentures, using acrylic bonding agent.
* Fabricates wire retainers to straighten teeth, using pliers, tweezers, and similar handtools.
* Inspects work for adherence to dentist's specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates bench-polishing machine to remove scratches and burrs and to impart polished finish to watch pinion teeth. Responsibilities include:
* Positions pinion in machine holder, using tweezers.
* Depresses pedal to engage lapping wheel and holds abrasive and polishing compound against rotating wheel to dress wheel.
* Presses machine lever to lower and hold lapping wheel against pinion to remove defects and polish pinion teeth.
* Releases pedal to stop machine after prescribed period and raises lever to gain access to polished pinion.
* Depresses pedal of hot air device to melt polishing compound adhered to pinion and to blow pinion into container.
* Mounts pinion in holding calipers and cleans pinion, using electric brush and cleaning compound.
* Examines and measures cleaned pinions to verify specified finish and dimensional specifications, using loupe and precision gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches cap (cover) to mainspring barrel assembly, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Places barrel assemblies in nests of special holder.
* Positions caps on assemblies, using tweezers, and presses caps firmly in place, using cap press (handtool).
* Oils assembly, using fountain oiler or oil-filled hypodermic syringe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles outer rings, inner rings, bearings, and retainer guards to form ball bearing assembly unit used in manufacture of gyros and other commercial equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Selects inner ring and places it on pedestal jig.
* Selects outer ring and places it on pedestal jig.
* Picks up ball bearings of specified size and number, using magnetic and nonmagnetic needles.
* Inserts bearings between outer and inner rings, spacing them with nonmagnetic needle.
* Selects and inserts retaining guard into ball bearing unit assembly.
* Tests finished assemblies with gauge to determine accurate radial play.
* May secure ball bearings in position, using rivets and riveting press.
* May disassemble finished ball bearings rejected, during final inspection.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines blocked lens to determine whether lens blanks are positioned evenly on block, using template.
* Positions template over blocked lens blank, holds assembly against light, and examines assembly to detect presence of light between blank and template indicating uneven positioning of lens blank on block.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts cone-shaped notch in face of watch dial for use as numerals. Responsibilities include:
* Positions dial on bed of press, aligns second and center holes with pins in press.
* Raises bed of press to bring dial in contact with diamond-cutting tool that automatically cuts cone-shaped notch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates riveting machine to rivet together parts fabricated from materials, such as sheet metal and plastic, according to work orders and specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Positions, aligns, and bolts specified dies over anvil and ram of machine and positions fixtures in machine bed, using micrometer, rule, gauge, shims, and wrenches.
* Installs cam and spring in anvil to synchronize action or clinching post of lower die with action of ram and with rivet feed agitator or lever when setting up semiautomatic machines which position rivets over anvil.
* Turns knobs and sets screws to adjust depth and pressure limit of ram stroke.
* Aligns holes of workpieces and inserts shanks of rivets into holes or onto anvil of machine.
* Positions rivets or holes in workpieces over anvil or against fixtures.
* Depresses pedal to lower ram that spreads rivet shank to clinch workpieces.
* Fills hopper with rivets when operating semiautomatic machines.
* May set up machines equipped with several rams, or with turret to punch and dimple rivet holes and to reposition workpiece after each operation.
Industry:Professional careers
