Job Description:

• 1) Weighs out specified amounts of dried and fluffed cotton linters prior to nitrating process in manufacture of smokeless powder: Rakes dried cotton linters into weigh cans, removing dust clusters and inadequately processed cotton.

• 2) Moves weigh cans along overhead monorail to section of rail connected with scales.

• 3) Adds or removes linters to obtain specified weight.

• 4) Pushes weigh cans along monorail to drive chain which conveys cans to next operation.

• 5) May regulate drier temperature and speed of conveyor.

• 6) May combine specified amount of acid and preweighed amount of cellulose in dipping pot in which they react chemically to produce nitrocellulose.