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Cellophane Sign Language To control the huge cellophane casting nnia- chines the operators use a rather unique "sign language”. These signals, some of which are pictured here, provide for the operators a quick, effective and silent method of communicating with each other— a method made necessary by the loud roar of the machines and the distance separating the wet and the dry, or wind-up, end of the casting machines. “B” and “C” shift men demonstrate the signals. Earl Garren, casting operator, is shown giving the operator at the wind-up end a roll break signal. Signal is made by striking at the forearm with heel of the hand. Hands held like this and moved in a horizontal line tells the ivet- end operator that the film edge has too high a bead. Jesse Ashe, coating operator, demonstrating. Robert Miller, dry-end operator, moves clasped hands with a roll ing motion to signal the operator at wet end of the machine that a wrinkle has appeared in the film.. Casting operator Tom Hooper tells man at the wind-up end of the machine that film has broken at the wet-end. In making sig nal, hands are rotated in a tumbling motion. Hopper operator Carl Watson calls for a unit weight adjust ment by crossing, uncrossing hands. If wt. is high, top hand is raised. Lower hand is dropped if wt. is low. Palms of the hands rubbed to gether with a grinding motion tells a wet-end operator that film on the dry-end has a fold ed area. Demonstrator of signal is Tom Cooper. 4
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