- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends machine that washes endless ropes of woolen piece goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads cloth over reel, between guides, and through feed rollers.
* Sews ends of cloth together to form endless rope, using sewing machine or by hand.
* Turns valves to fill tub with water and to control steam for heating solution.
* Pours liquid detergents into tub, following specifications.
* Starts machine that revolves piece goods over reel and through solution for specified period of time.
* Turns valves to drain solution from tub and to fill tub with rinse water.
* Ravels seams to separate cloth ends after rinsing, laps end of cloth over reel, and starts reel to transfer cloth from machine to handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that dye and finish knitted garments, such as hosiery and sweaters. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit water and steam into machine to specified level.
* Pours dye, cleaning agents, or finishing chemicals into machine.
* Turns thermostat and timing device to set temperature and dyeing time, according to formula.
* Places garments in compartments of machine and starts machine.
* Periodically examines garments from each dye or finish lot to detect variations from processing standards.
* Adds dye, reducing agent, or finishing chemicals, according to instructions, if standard is not matched.
* Drains solution from machine at end of dyeing or finishing cycle.
* Removes dyed or finished garments to handtruck and labels each lot.
* May tend extractor.
* May weigh or measure cleaning agents and chemicals.
* May be designated according to type of machine used as paddle-dyeing-machine operator; rotary-drum dyer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads pelts into vats containing solutions to bleach, dye, tan, or clean them.
* Loads pelts into extractors or drums equipped with paddles to remove excess liquid.
* Hangs wet pelts over sticks and places them on racks in drying room.
* Places dried pelts in boxes and trucks pelts to next operation.
* May stretch skins or replace oils lost in dyeing process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists dye-reel operator to bleach or dye cloth, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts cloth rolls on brackets and feeds end of cloth through swing-folding attachment of machine that unwinds cloth into handtruck.
* Hangs end of cloth over winding reel in dye beck (tub) and sews ends together to make continuous loop, using portable sewing machine.
* Ravels connecting seams after rinsing and guides cloth over doffing reel into handtruck.
* Turns valves to drain, rinse, and fill tanks with water.
* Carries chemicals, such as dyes, bleaches, and scouring agents, from mixing room to dye house and pours chemicals into beck.
* Conveys cloth between departments, using handtruck.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills raw-stock-dyeing or bleaching machine with cotton, wool, or synthetic fiber, preparatory to dyeing or bleaching, and removes stock from machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Places rack in machine to support stock during processing.
* Opens bales and dumps or packs armfuls of loose fiber into machine.
* Closes machine lid and tightens lugs, using handtools.
* Removes rack of fiber after processing cycle, using power hoist.
* May dump premeasured amounts of dyes, bleaches, or other chemicals into tanks.
* May turn valves to admit steam into tubs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists skein-yarn dyer in bleaching or dyeing skeins of yarn. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs yarn skeins over perforated racks of portable cabinet.
* Loads yarn into machine, using chain hoist.
* Removes dyed yarn from machine.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists slasher tender in coating warp threads with size and winding warp onto loom beams: Transfers warp or loom beams to or from machine, using handtruck.
* Positions beams on creel, using hoist.
* Assists slasher tender to pass warp threads through rollers, size pot, and drying rollers and to insert lease rods.
* Loosens and removes clamps from end of loom beam, using wrench.
* Lifts loom beam from slasher onto handtruck, using hoist.
* May mix and cook size in vats according to formula.
* May turn valves to control flow of size from vat to size pot on slasher machine.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists slasher tender in coating warp threads with size and winding warp onto loom beams: Transfers warp or loom beams to or from machine, using handtruck.
* Positions beams on creel, using hoist.
* Assists slasher tender to pass warp threads through rollers, size pot, and drying rollers and to insert lease rods.
* Loosens and removes clamps from end of loom beam, using wrench.
* Lifts loom beam from slasher onto handtruck, using hoist.
* May mix and cook size in vats according to formula.
* May turn valves to control flow of size from vat to size pot on slasher machine.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads worsted or synthetic tops into kettles for dyeing. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls portion of inside fiber to outside so tops will pass over spindles (perforated pipes).
* Wraps tops in cloth or in bags to hold tops intact during dyeing.
* Pushes wrapped tops over spindles in kettle.
* Removes tops after dyeing.
* May convey tops to and from dye room, using handtruck.
* May weigh and tag tops before dyeing.
* May drain solution and rinse excess dye from kettles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions and removes hollow rods used to support folds of printed cloth while cloth moves through steaming chamber. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes rods from conveyor in feeder rack that automatically drops rods into position to support cloth.
* Removes and places rods emerging from discharge end of steaming chamber onto conveyor belt to be returned to feeder rack.
Industry:Professional careers
