DOT Code: 550.685-078

Industry: paint & varnish
Alternate Titles: batch mixer; blender; dispersion mixer

Tends mixing machines that blend solid and liquid ingredients to make products, such as paints, lacquers, putty, paint pigments, and binders, following formula: Turns valves or sets pump meters to admit specified amounts of liquids, such as oils, solvents, and water into mixer. Weighs and dumps specified amounts of dry ingredients, such as plastic flash, color concentrates, and resins into mixer, as indicated on batch ticket, or dumps preweighed ingredients into tank. Pushes or pulls tank to dispersion mixing machine. Depresses pedal to lower mixing blades into tank and presses button to start blades revolving to mix and disperse ingredients. Turns valves to drain batch through hoses into pebble or ball mill or into holding tank. Draws sample from batch for laboratory test and adds ingredients to mixture as specified by laboratory. May clean equipment, using rags, solvent, and scraper. May be designated according to product mixed as Glass Enamel Mixer (paint & varnish); Lacquer Blender (paint & varnish); Paint Maker (paint & varnish); Paste Mixer (paint & varnish); Pigment Mixer (paint & varnish); Putty Maker (paint & varnish).

GOE: 06.04.11 STRENGTH: H GED: R3 M1 L2 SVP: 3 DLU: 78