LAMINATING-MACHINE OPERATOR

  

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LAMINATING-MACHINE OPERATOR

Specialty Definition: LAMINATING-MACHINE OPERATOR

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Sets up and operates machine to combine two or more continuous sheets of material, such as paper, paperboard, foil, and plastic film, to form such laminated products as building paper, fiberboard, wallboard, or material from which metallic yarn is slit: Mounts rolls of materials in machine, using hoist. Threads materials over and under guide rollers (one sheet over adhesive roller), around cooling drum, and to rewinder core. Starts pumps to transfer adhesive solution from storage tanks to machine. Starts machine, observes gauges, and adjusts controls to maintain temperature and pressure of rollers, temperature of adhesive, filling of cooling drum, functioning of doctor blade, and speed of machine. Inspects samples of laminated products for defects, such as wrinkles and thick spots. May test specific gravity of adhesive solution, using hydrometer. May attach ends of new material to material in machine with tape. May set up and operate machine to extrude polyethylene film, combine film with paper or aluminum foil, and print design on processed laminated paper used for wrapping materials and be designated Polyethylene Combiner (paper goods). (references)
 Operates $T3range$T1 to laminate materials, such as cloth, carpeting, felt, and foam rubber: Mounts roll of felt or foam rubber on machine brackets. Pushes truck of cloth into feeding position. Sews cloth and felt or foam rubber to leader using portable sewing machine, or threads layers of materials through range unit guides and rollers. Turns dials and handwheels to adjust blade that spreads predetermined quantity of adhesive onto cloth, regulate heat lamps and speed of laminating rollers, or to adjust $T3tenter frame$T1 according to width of materials. Turns valve to admit steam into $T3drying cans$T1 or steam pipes and starts range. Aligns cloth entering machine and observes fabrics to detect wrinkles and holes. Patches holes with masking tape and smooths wrinkles by hand. May apply adhesive to material with trowel or dipper. May work as member of team to guide cloth into range. (references)
 Tends machine that cements precut plastic covering material to plywood panels to form furniture parts, such as tops for cabinets and tables: Inserts plywood panel between rollers of cement-spreading machine to coat both sides of panel with cement. Positions plastic covering material on sides of panel and places covered panel on bed of press. Starts machine that presses covered panel with heated ram for prescribed time to seal plastic covering material onto plywood panel. May tend automatic machine that presses veneer to panels and trims excess edges. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LAMINATING-MACHINE OPERATOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 41 4D 49 4E 41 54 49 4E 47 2D 4D 41 43 48 49 4E 45      4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#45 &#77 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 004D 0049 004E 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047 002D 004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045      004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46354743483554434841154735374243483924950395235544952

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