- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that coats fiberglass sliver with dye. Respnsibilities include:
* Places supply package on machine platform and threads sliver through guides, over tension bars and dye roller applicator, through traverse guide, and attaches sliver to takeup package.
* Pours or turns valve to admit dye solution into trough of dye roller applicator.
* Pushes lever to lower winding head and start machine.
* Observes flow of sliver through machine to detect breaks in sliver and ties broken sliver by hand.
* Cuts sliver, using scissors, and doffs packages of dyed sliver from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes feathers used in stuffing household goods, such as pillows and cushions. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills paddle-agitated or tumbler-type washing machine with feathers, soap, chemicals, and water, and starts machine.
* Opens valve to drain water and to admit clean water into washer to rinse feathers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes and treats felt with chemical preservatives. Respnsibilities include:
* Wraps felt around machine spindle or presses button to start rollers that pull felt into machine.
* Turns valves to admit water, steam, detergents, caustics, and other chemicals into machine at specified intervals according to specifications.
* Presses button to start machine washing and treating cycles.
* Unloads machine with aid of another worker or threads felt through rollers for removal of moisture.
* May tend machine to dye felt and be designated felt-dyeing-machine tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends retort or vacuum chamber that fumigates or sterilizes used mattresses. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads mattresses on dollies and pushes them into chamber.
* Closes and bolts chamber door.
* Starts vacuum pump to remove air from chamber.
* Opens valves to control flow of fumigating or sterilizing gases into chamber, observing gauges and scale readings.
* Pumps gases from chamber and replaces gases with fresh air.
* Opens chamber door and removes loaded dollies.
* May tend fumigating device, used inside chamber, that produces fumes from heated chemicals.
* May tend oven to sterilize mattresses with hot air.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes wrinkles from knitted garments with steam and hot air. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs garments on studs of revolving disk of machine.
* Starts machine that subjects garments to steam spray and hot air as disk revolves.
* Removes and stacks steamed garments on table.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes wrinkles from knitted garments with steam and hot air. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs garments on studs of revolving disk of machine.
* Starts machine that subjects garments to steam spray and hot air as disk revolves.
* Removes and stacks steamed garments on table.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies grease and wax to unfinished felt hat bodies to stiffen and finish felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts rolls of cloth impregnated with grease and wax on holders of machine and threads cloth under feed rollers, between machine guides, and over applicator pads.
* Fits hat body over block mounted on arm of machine.
* Presses lever to start machine that forces body against applicator pads to finish and stiffen body.
* May be designated according to part of hat body processed as brim-greaser operator; crown-greaser operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies grease and wax to unfinished felt hat bodies to stiffen and finish felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts rolls of cloth impregnated with grease and wax on holders of machine and threads cloth under feed rollers, between machine guides, and over applicator pads.
* Fits hat body over block mounted on arm of machine.
* Presses lever to start machine that forces body against applicator pads to finish and stiffen body.
* May be designated according to part of hat body processed as brim-greaser operator; crown-greaser operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vats that boils animal hair to curl hair.
* Turns valves to admit water and steam into vats and to drain water from vats after hair is boiled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that dyes cloth under pressure. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit water, steam, and chemicals into compartments to specified level.
* Sews ends of cloth together to form endless rope of cloth, using portable sewing machine.
* Presses button to activate suction device that draws cloth over machine reel into compartments.
* Presses button to start automatic washing, dyeing, and rinsing cycles, and observes control panel for faulty machine operation.
* Reports malfunctions to maintenance personnel.
* Starts reel to pull cloth from machine at end of processing cycles.
Industry:Professional careers
