- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends tanks, vats, or drums in which sheepskins are pickled. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill equipment with water.
* Weighs and dumps specified amounts of lime, salt, detergents, and acid into separate tanks.
* Throws slats (sheepskins less wool), by hand or using tongs, into lime tank to remove fat and flesh, into detergent tank to remove traces of lime, and into salt and acid tank to pickle slats.
* Starts agitators in tanks and empties and refills tanks.
* May perform all processes, using rotating drum, and be designated Pickling-Drum Operator (meat products).
* May be known according to specific task performed as Lime-Vat Tender (meat products).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that bleach or dye skeins of yarn. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs yarn skeins over perforated rack.
* Turns valves to fill dye vats with water, and turns knob to set temperature of water according to specifications.
* Pours chemical softeners and liquid dyes into vats according to formula.
* Starts machine that rotates skeins periodically and circulates dye through yarn.
* Dumps dye solution from vats at end of dyeing cycle and circulates rinse water through yarn.
* Loops several skeins of yarn together to form bundle and removes yarn bundles from perforated racks.
* Places bundles of yarn into boxes.
* May load and unload machine, using chain hoist.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade names or machines used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that washes lamb and sheep pelts. Respnsibilities include:
* Unloads pelts from trucks, railroad cars, or handcarts.
* Separates sheep pelts from lamb pelts and segregates pelts with cuts, tears, or blemishes.
* Turns valve to fill soaking tank with water and dumps specified amount of salt into tank.
* Throws pelts into tank and starts agitators that wash pelts.
* Removes pelts from tank by hand or using metal hook.
* May record number of pelts washed and those found defective.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that washes lamb and sheep pelts. Respnsibilities include:
* Unloads pelts from trucks, railroad cars, or handcarts.
* Separates sheep pelts from lamb pelts and segregates pelts with cuts, tears, or blemishes.
* Turns valve to fill soaking tank with water and dumps specified amount of salt into tank.
* Throws pelts into tank and starts agitators that wash pelts.
* Removes pelts from tank by hand or using metal hook.
* May record number of pelts washed and those found defective.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that dyes twine. Respnsibilities include:
* Dips dye from barrel into dye pots of machine.
* Creels machine with bobbins of twine.
* Threads ends of twine through guides, dividing racks, squeeze rollers, and dye pots, and ties ends of twine to rope that draws twine through finishing rollers.
* Starts machine until twine is drawn through finishing rollers and then stops machine and attaches ends to takeup bobbins.
* Starts machine and observes operation for malfunctions, such as tangled and broken twine.
* Doffs bobbins of dyed twine.
* Cleans hardened dye from rollers with scraper, and washes dye pots with hot water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends pressurized, steam-heated chambers that age dyed or printed cloth or to set pile fabrics. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls cloth over rod of carriage or hooks cloth selvages at intervals on rack hooks to hang cloth in loops on carriages.
* Pushes cloth carriages or racks into steamer and bolts door, using wrench.
* Turns valve to admit steam into steaming chamber.
* Pulls carriages or racks from steamer after specified time.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steaming cabinet that circulates steam, heat, and air through garments to remove wrinkles and imparts finished appearance.
* Moves levers to activate conveyors that carry garments through steaming cabinet and to specified work stations following processing cycles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steaming cabinet that circulates steam, heat, and air through garments to remove wrinkles and imparts finished appearance.
* Moves levers to activate conveyors that carry garments through steaming cabinet and to specified work stations following processing cycles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that weights silk or rayon cloth with tinning solution. Respnsibilities include:
* Places cloth into bowl of machine and distributes cloth evenly along sides of bowl.
* Wraps burlap around cloth to prevent silk from separating.
* Turns valve to admit compressed air into storage tank to agitate tinning solution.
* Starts pump to transfer specified amount of solution to bowl of machine.
* Determines specific gravity of solution, using hydrometer, and pours water or concentrated tinning solution from pail into bowl of machine to bring solution to required specific gravity.
* Starts machine that slowly rotates bowl to saturate cloth with solution.
* Opens valve to drain solution from bowl of machine into storage tank and turns rheostat control to increase speed of rotating bowl to extract excess solution from cloth.
* Removes cloth from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes, bleaches, dyes, rinses, and dries warp yarn in rope form: Weighs chemicals and dyes, according to formula, and dumps ingredients into mixing tank.
* Turns valves to admit steam and water into tank, and stirs solution with paddle.
* Turns valves to release dye mixture into vats.
* Sets drying can thermostat at temperature specified for count of yarn to be dried.
* Mounts ball warps on rack at front of machine, using hoist.
* Ties yarn to leader to thread machine.
* Observes yarn passing through units of machine to detect yarn breaks or tangles.
* Stops machine and untangles snarled yarns or ties broken ends.
* Compares sample of yarn with standard to determine if dyeing meets specifications, and notifies dye weigher if specifications are not met.
* Observes level of liquid in vats and adjusts liquid flow to maintain specified level.
* May be designated according to dye used as indigo-vat tender, warp; or according to process as warp-bleaching-vat tender; warp-scouring-vat tender.
Industry:Professional careers
