TESTER OPERATOR

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Tests cigarettes and cellophane wrappers to ensure that products conform to company standards, according to following methods: (1) Feeds sample from cigarette-making machine into hopper of weight recorder that tallies weight of each cigarette and totals number of each weight. Computes average weight of cigarettes in sample and compares average weight with standard to determine deviations. (2) Slits cigarette paper, dumps tobacco into container, and places container in electric moisture meter to obtain moisture content [MOISTURE-METER OPERATOR (tobacco) 529.687-162]. (3) Weighs tobacco from specified number of cigarettes and places tobacco in agitator equipped with series of screens to separate shreds according to size. Weighs separate tobacco and determines percentage of each size of shreds in single cigarette, using conversion table. (4) Removes cellophane wrapper from cigarette pack and tests resistance to air by slipping wrapper over suction device of instrument that draws air through wrapper and indicates amount of airflow. Records test finding, date, and machine number from which samples were taken. (references)
	Breaks extruded tubes and rods by one or more of following methods and inspects exposed surface for defects, such as bubbles beneath skin of metal resulting from too rapid extrusion: (1) Nicks workpiece, using file or saw, and breaks workpiece at nick by bending back and forth. (2) Saws off piece of tube and holds on table under cone-shaped expander of hydraulic breaker. Starts mechanism to raise table, forcing tube over expander to split sides of tube. (3) Loads coiled rod onto coil tester and pulls end of rod to straighten it. Places end of rod in channel of tester and starts mechanism oscillating to fracture rod. (4) Places rod in machine and actuates wedge to partially cut rod. Twists and bends rod to break off test piece. Examines ends or interior of rods and tubes for bubbles and cuts off defective sections, using circular saw or automatic shears. Gathers and sorts scrap materials according to type of metal. Positions rods and tubes on table of circular saw or shearing machine and cuts them to length. Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machines used or workpiece tested. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: TESTER OPERATOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-t-t"
	-4 letters: reoperates, retreaters, tetraspore.
	-5 letters: operators, operettas, parroters, parterres, patterers, perorates, poetaster, potterers, pretreats, prostrate, protester, protestor, protostar, reoperate, repartees, repeaters, reporters, rerepeats, retorters, retreater, rotatores, tattooers, totterers.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-t-t"
	+5 letters: overinterpretations.
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