Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that slits panels of storage-battery plates to specified widths, and inspects slit plates for defects in casting or pasting, such as cracked frames, broken lugs, holes, and incomplete or uneven pasting: Adjusts slot in feeding mechanism to thickness of plate, positions saw used to trim lugs on plate to specified length, and positions cutting rollers according to widths specified for plates.

• 2) Starts conveyor and slitter.

• 3) Examines plates and segregates defective plates.

• 4) Cleans edges of lugs, using handtools and stacks plates on truck.

• 5) Records date, type of plate, and inspector's name on ticket and attaches ticket to load.