List of Career Duties Under Leather Manufacturing Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER LEATHER MANUFACTURING BUSINESS SECTOR
Assorter Career Duties
- Inspect sorts processed material, like hides, skins, or leather
- Examine material for defects, like brand marks, cuts and scars and trims defects from material, using shears
- Verify thickness of material, using gauge
- Sort material according to qualities, like color, size, and thickness
- Return defective material for reprocessing
- May be designated according to material sorted as Blue-Leather Sorter leather mfg. , Patent-Leather Sorter leather mfg. , Russet-Leather Sorter leather mfg. .
Beam Department Supervisor Career Duties
- Supervise coordinates activities of workers engaged in trimming flesh, liming hair, and washing tanned hides
- Perform other duties as described under Supervisor any industry Master Title.
Beam house Inspector Career Duties
- Examine hides and skins for flesh and hair after defleshing dehairing operations
- Place rejected hides on pile for reprocessing and defleshed dehaired hides on cart.
Beaming Inspector Career Duties
- Examine hides and skins for flesh and hair after defleshing dehairing operations
- Place rejected hides on pile for reprocessing and defleshed dehaired hides on cart.
Bend Sorter Career Duties
- Inspect sorts processed material, like hides, skins, or leather
- Examine material for defects, like brand marks, cuts and scars and trims defects from material, using shears
- Verify thickness of material, using gauge
- Sort material according to qualities, like color, size, and thickness
- Return defective material for reprocessing
- May be designated according to material sorted as Blue-Leather Sorter leather mfg. , Patent-Leather Sorter leather mfg. , Russet-Leather Sorter leather mfg. .
Bend Trimmer Career Duties
- Mark cutting lines on hides trims ragged edges, thin areas, and brand marks from hides, using rule, pattern, knife, and chalk
- May be designated according to hide trimmed as Black-Leather Trimmer leather mfg. , Blue-Split Trimmer leather mfg. , Lambskin Trimmer leather mfg. , Lime Trimmer leather mfg. , Raw-Hide Trimmer leather mfg. , Wet Trimmer leather mfg. .
Blackener Career Duties
- Tend machine that sprays solution, like pigment or lacquer onto leather pieces to finish leather
- Place leather pieces on conveyor that carries pieces under spray to coat leather with finishing solution
- Turn valves to regulate pressure of compressed air in spray tanks flow of solution through spray nozzles
- Push button to control movement of conveyor and moves lever to start stop rotation of sprayer.
Blacking machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend machine that sprays solution, like pigment or lacquer onto leather pieces to finish leather
- Place leather pieces on conveyor that carries pieces under spray to coat leather with finishing solution
- Turn valves to regulate pressure of compressed air in spray tanks flow of solution through spray nozzles
- Push button to control movement of conveyor and moves lever to start stop rotation of sprayer.
Block Trimmer Career Duties
- Mark cutting lines on hides trims ragged edges, thin areas, and brand marks from hides, using rule, pattern, knife, and chalk
- May be designated according to hide trimmed as Black-Leather Trimmer leather mfg. , Blue-Split Trimmer leather mfg. , Lambskin Trimmer leather mfg. , Lime Trimmer leather mfg. , Raw-Hide Trimmer leather mfg. , Wet Trimmer leather mfg. .
Blue line Hanger Career Duties
- Perform any combination of following duties in various sections of tannery, like drying department, beam house, hide house, or tan house
- Cuts cord from hide bundles spreads hides on floor for processing
- Dump tannery refuse, like skin & fat, in bin covers refuse with lime to prevent putrefaction
- Cover fleshy side of hides with lime solution to prevent putrefaction of hides
- Apply solvent to wool of sheepskin to remove painted brands, using rag brush
- Hang hides in steam room and turns valve to admit steam that loosens hair wool on hides
- Move steamed hides to dehairing machine or manually pulls loosened wool from hides
- Collect hair after dehairing operation dumps hair into washing machine
- Shovel washed hair into centrifugal drier or onto screen over steam coils to remove moisture
- Punch holes in hides, using awl or punch press, to facilitate tying hides into bundles for tanning
- Count ties specified number of hides into bundles
- Dump hides into drums or vats containing various chemical solutions that dehair, delime, or preserve hides
- Dampen hides with water in preparation for oiling
- Paste or clips wet hides on frames to prevent wrinkling slides frames into drying tunnel
- Remove dry hides from frames stacks hides on cart
- Feed and off bears machines that clean smooth finished hides by pressing, brushing, or vacuuming
- Clean vats, tanks, and drums of lime, tanbark, and refuse and scrubs walls floors of tannery, using brushes, scrapers, and solvents
- Spray disinfectant in trucks or freight cars used to haul hides to tannery
- May be assigned to specific section of tannery be designated Laborer, Beam House leather mfg. , Laborer, Drying Department leather mfg. , Laborer, Hide House leather mfg. , Laborer, Tan House leather mfg. .
