The machinery, equipment and associated components
listed below which is identified for the purpose of description
only, falls within the jurisdiction of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America (Millwrights).
Although some components of machinery and/or
equipment may be described in one application or location and not in
another, it shall not be excluded from our autonomy when, to avoid
repetition, it is not described in other applications.
The term Millwright and Machinery Erectors shall
mean unloading, hoisting, rigging by any means, transferring,
moving, cleaning, disassembling, assembling, welding, burning,
erecting, calibrating, aligning, starting-up and testing, adjusting,
repairing, and the maintaining of all machinery and equipment, be it
powered by, or receiving power from, steam, gas, gasoline, diesel,
jet, electric, pneumatic, water, solar, thermal, mineral, atomic,
rocket, nuclear, chemical or any other source, regardless of whether
temporarily or permanently installed or located.
Some of the locations in which you may find
machinery, equipment and their components are: woodworking, canning,
food, and computer industries, steel, metal, plastic, and glass
manufacturing or recycling plants, foundries, ore reduction plants,
stamping facilities, coffee roasting plants, paper, cellophane and
film industries, fees and saw mills, rock, gravel, sand washing,
stone crushing, cement and asphalt plants, water, sewage and
chemical treatment plants, laundries, kitchens, restaurants,
hospitals, bakeries, fertilizing and mixing plants, can, ice, bottle
and bag manufacturing plants, textile, flour, and paint mills,
breweries, milk, rendering and meat processing plants, locks and
dams, coal yards, sugar refineries, post offices, package handling
centers, incinerators, co-generation, coal gasification and power
plants, automotive, truck and/or similar manufacturing type
factories, bio-research facilities, the amusement, recreational and
entertainment fields.
Millwrights shall set all engines, motors, dynamos,
generators, diesel generators, motor restraints, install, measure,
and align with optical instruments when necessary the reactors,
control, push and shut-down rods, rod pressure housing drives, guide
sleeves and other related equipment in reactors, turbines, castings,
cylinders, diaphragms, rotors, blade rings, blade or bucket
assemblies, hydrogen coolers, blower assemblies, packing joints on
hydrogen coolers, exciter Alterex and all others, turning gears,
extension box, welding of extension box, lagging, stretching of
coupling bolts or others, perform oil flush, install turbine lube
oil tank, pumps and related component skids, filters, thrust
bearings, the sweating on and shrinking of bearings, couplings,
shafts and others, sole plates and machine bases, perform all
precision grouting using the following materials, epoxy, wet,
non-shrink, dri-packing or other types, demineralizing, hydromation
and mechanical dust systems, sensors, air compressors, super
chargers, coolers, boiler controls and linkage, Bailey Meters or
similar devices and their linkages, fluid drives, embedded guides
for traveling screens, traveling screens, roller, slide, knife, lock
and sluice grates, limit torques on mechanical valves, grates and
others, tainter valves, limit switches, trips, triggers or switches
including the brackets that are attached to, stop logs, dam rollers,
transfer cars, gear head motors.
The setting of variable drives, fans, coal cranes,
truck cranes or other types, including the servicing, adjusting and
aligning of mechanical equipment within the cranes, crane rails and
all other types of rails which would carry mechanically activated
equipment, including components, packaging equipment, refrigerating
equipment, chillers, and related equipment, lantern rings, packing
glands, packing for pumps, pollution equipment, carbon absorbers,
heat exchanges, grain, ball, hammer, roller mills and others,
crushers and beaters, hoppers, bins, chutes and spouts, turn tables,
shears, casing machines, robots, air-veyors of all sizes, types, and
styles regardless of the material they are constructed with,
including their supports, people movers, jetways, magnetic
separators, hoists, feeding machinery, Z-loaders, S-loaders,
palletizers, Triax equipment, mechanical equipment in scrubbers,
pack towers, precipitators, cooling towers and air cooled
condensers.
The setting of thru-clean bar, straight line bar,
trash, tritor drum, and disc screens, straight line grit, circuline
grit, circuline sludge, and circuline mixer collectors, straight
line, flash, horizontal slow, vertical slow, and vibra-flow feeder
machines, pre-aeration and settling tanks, cover tanks, bowels and
basins including stationary or mechanical covers regardless of
dyna-grind sewage screening grinders, screw pumps, hydropulpers,
spiral classifier, agitators, blowers, grizzly screens, trammels,
table feeders, dryers, optical sorters, high tension separators,
grip dewatering screens, filter, cone and rotary presses,
comminutors, barminutors, degreasers, rotometers, dehumidifiers,
benches, washers for cars, trucks, buses, trains, and other types,
hydraulic units, shroud boxes, silencers, scales, load cells, eddy
current clutches, disintegrators, dehairing machines, grain handling
devices, laboratory equipment, machine shop equipment, ladle cars,
stunning pens and doors, activation equipment, racks, material
handling platforms, transition pieces, the handling and installation
of pulleys, gears, sheaves and fly wheels, air, vacuum, worm, belt,
friction, rope, chain and gear drives that are directly or
indirectly coupled to motors, belts, chains, shafts, or screws,
installation of legs, boot guards and boot tanks, all bin and
diverter valves, turn hands and indicators, shafting, bearing cable
sprockets, cutting of all key seats in old and new work, troughs,
chippers, calendars, rolls winders, rewinders, slitters, cutters,
wrapping machines, blowers, forging machines, pneumatic, electric
and hydraulic rams, extractors, expellers and extruders, ball and
dust collectors, splicing of ropes and cables.
The laying out, fabrication and installation of
protecting equipment including: machinery guards, making and setting
of templates for machinery, fabrication of bolts, nuts, pans,
drilling of holes in machinery for any equipment which the
Millwrights install regardless of materials, all welding and burning
regardless of the type, fabrication of all lines, hose or tubing
used in the lubrication, operation, cooling or heating of machinery
including the installation of all fluids used to operate, lubricate,
cool or heat equipment installed by Millwrights, cleaning of
machinery before turnover to owner, machining, grinding, milling,
broaching, boring, threading, lapping and keying that may be
necessary for any part of equipment, including the starting up,
breaking in, and trial running of any equipment or machinery
installed by the Millwrights.
Rock, sand and gravel plants, batch or aggregate
plants, recycling equipment, crushers, conveyors, or other
mechanical equipment used (for the purpose of description only) to
excavate material from one area to another from highways, roadways,
or elsewhere.
When optical instruments such as automatic levels,
builder’s transits, precision jig transits, tilting levels,
theodilites or other precision tools and instruments are used to
locate and set machines, these tools are considered a tool of this
trade and are to be used by Millwrights to set their equipment.
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