- Industria: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who inspects and adjusts position of watch banking pins to limit angle through which pallet swings to point where escape wheel clears pallet stones, using loupe and watchmaker's tools. Responsibilities include:
* Turns screw to move eccentrically placed banking pin until impulse face of escape wheel drops off pallet jewel.
* Moves pallet back and forth to test jewel pin shake (distance between pallet fork and jewel pin), to verify that shake is equal in both pallet positions, using tweezers.
* Bends pallet to equalize shake, using tweezers.
* Examines locking motion of escape wheel when guard pin is pressed against safety roller to verify guard pin shake (distance between guard pin and safety roller).
* Moves guard point out or files point to obtain correct length.
* Heats pallet to liquefy jewel adhesive, using hot plate, and moves jewels to correct slide, using tweezers.
* Examines pallet action to verify sufficient clearance between pallet and roller.
* Increases or decreases clearance between pallet and roller to correct deficiency, using tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and measures watch and clock components, such as pinions, wheels, gears, pillar plates, shafts, pallets, wheel and pinion assemblies, and escapement assemblies to ensure conformance to tolerance specifications and quality standards, using loupe, precision measuring instruments, and electronic timing devices. Responsibilities include:
* Reads blueprints and inspection specifications for parts to be inspected to determine types and sequences of inspection and measuring instruments required.
* Examines components for surface defects, such as scratches, burrs, nicks, and blemishes, using loupe, optical comparator, microscope, and tweezers.
* Measures components to ensure adherence to dimensional specifications, using precision measuring instruments, such as gauges, calipers, dial indicators, comparascopes, and micrometers.
* Approves or rejects components according to inspection results and records reasons for rejection.
* Checks accuracy of measuring instruments, using calibrating equipment.
* May project watch parts on screen to inspect parts.
* May weigh fine parts, such as timing, balance, and gold screws to ensure conformance to weight specifications, using balances and scales.
* May test hardness of watch parts.
* May be designated according to component inspected as arbor inspector; balance-staff inspector; barrel inspector; case inspector; hands inspector; mainspring-strip gauger.
* May be designated: mainspring-strip inspector; pinion inspector; plate inspector; screw inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects watch subassemblies and incomplete watch movements for mechanical and visual defects, using watchmaker's tools and loupe. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects parts, such as bridges, jewels, and screws, for cracks, scratches, and other surface defects, using loupe.
* Turns wheels to detect amount of vertical play (endshake) and to ascertain if wheels have sufficient freedom, using tweezers and picks.
* Winds mainspring to determine wheel characteristics, such as flatness of path and freedom of movement.
* Examines wheels and pivots for bends and alignment, using loupe.
* Records defects found.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures, reshapes, and assembles spring leaves to form set of matched springs. Responsibilities include:
* Measures leaves, using ruler and straightedge, and sorts them according to size and shape.
* Reshapes warped leaves to specifications, using sledgehammer or shaping press.
* Selects and positions matched leaves in vise on worktable and presses pedal to compress leaves.
* Inserts bolts through leaf holes and tightens nut, using wrench.
* Verifies length and alignment of spring, using straightedge and ruler.
* May route spring leaves through assembly process after repairing leaves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who wraps extended spring leaf ends around main leaf, using hand-operated wrapping device. Responsibilities include:
* Selects and sets eye pin (eye holder) into base of wrapping device.
* Positions cold main-leaf eye over pin to hold main leaf in place during wrapping.
* Heats end of second leaf for specified time in furnace and positions leaf behind main-leaf eye, using clamp tongs.
* Inserts centering pin through center hole in each leaf to align leaves and clamps leaves together with tongs.
* Pulls lever to move pressure plate against heated end of second leaf forcing it around main-leaf eye.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs labor standards program. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes operational procedures and guidelines for enforcing statutes and regulations governing minimum wage, working hours and conditions, employment of minors, and licensing of private employment agencies.
* Effects liaison with federal agencies to coordinate activities and avoid duplication of effort.
* Mediates disputes and violations of laws.
* Conducts research projects to establish standards and proposes legislative changes to implement findings.
* Develops and directs training program for staff in licensing, inspection, and investigative functions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates multiple-station machine to automatically charge and tamp subigniter, igniter, and tracer powder in bullet jackets to form tracer bullets for military rifle ammunition. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and watches tracks and stations for malfunctioning and jams.
* Clears jammed dies, funnels, and bullets, using fingers or wire hook.
* Observes dies at assembly station and inserts jackets by hand in dies missed at hopper tube, seating them with hammer.
* Turns setscrews and stopnuts, using handtools, to adjust width of track rails, height of scraper regulating amount of powder scooped, stroke of tamping punch, and timing of die-turning fingers.
* Replaces worn and damaged punches, dies, knock-out pins, and fingers.
* Weighs powder samples from each charging station on grain scale and adjusts height of scraper or changes size of scoop to regulate load.
* Measures depth of charge in bullet with dial indicator for firmness of pack.
* Empties carrier pouches of powder into reservoir bags at charging stations to replenish supply.
* Cleans machine, using airhose and steam wand, and washes powder dust from floor with water hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in assembling, repairing, remodeling, and maintaining photographing, projecting, sound, and related motion-picture equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects malfunctioning equipment to determine extent of work to be performed and directs individuals or groups to make repairs or modifications.
* Trains new workers in equipment assembly and maintenance.
* May assign repair crews to motion picture production units.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches power cords, cases, dials, and hands to electric clock movements to assemble electric clocks, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts end of power cord through opening in clock case and splices wires from motor of clock movement to cord, using plastic connectors.
* Fastens case to clock movement, using pneumatic screwdriver.
* Positions dial over front plate of movement and attaches hour, minute, and second hands to cannon pinion, using wrench.
* Aligns clock hands and alarm indicator and pulls alarm button to test mechanism.
* Snaps plastic crystal into case, affixes label to back of case and places assembled clock on conveyor for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who selects and arranges specified type and quantity of component parts in trays preparatory to line assembly of surveying instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Positions instrument base or support structure (standard) in jig, and spreads bracket of standard to specified width to facilitate attachment of parts, using tongs.
* Files burrs from bracket holes, using hand file.
* Selects component parts from stock bins, according to instrument being assembled, and examines parts for defects.
* Arranges parts in tray and places tray on assembly line conveyor.
* Tallies number of trays assembled, using counter.
Industry:Professional careers
