- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that removes excess starch or stiffness from dyed or printed cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides cloth roll onto machine brackets.
* Threads cloth over and under alternate rollers that have surface of wavy ridges or rollers that are covered with metal buttons.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect binding of cloth or machine malfunction.
* Pushes lever to reverse machine, running cloth through several times until texture meets specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses and curls brims of fiber helmets. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts crown of helmet in lower die on bed of machine.
* Pushes button or lever that raises and presses die and helmet against upper die to curl brim.
* Pulls or presses button lever to lower die and removes helmet.
* May turn switches and valve controls to start cooling unit in lower die and activate heating element in upper die.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses hat brims to smooth and flatten brims. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects specified flange (collar) and positions flange over hole in heated machine bed.
* Inserts hat crown in hole with brim resting on flange.
* Moves lever to lower machine press against hat brim or raise machine bed, containing hat, against stationary press to curl, smooth, or flatten brim.
* Removes hat from machine and places on rack.
* May tend machine equipped with rotary block or inflation device to press hat brims.
* When tending battery of hydraulic presses to shape straw hat brims, is known as Set-Off-Press Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that press unfinished hat bodies to smooth and shape hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions inverted hat body in specified size heated form, mounted in bed of press.
* Pulls lever to lower ram and automatically inflate hat body to shape body and brim against form.
* Removes and inspects hat for wrinkles and specific shape, and stacks hat on rack.
* May insert specified shaped block in hat body before lowering ram if press is not equipped with inflation device.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that imparts raised design or finish on cloth, coated fabrics, or plastic sheeting, by means of heat and pressure from engraved steel rollers. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts automatic device that regulates heat, or turns valve to admit steam to rollers.
* Slides bar through center of material roll and lifts it onto machine feed brackets.
* Threads material between rollers and laps end onto takeup tube.
* Starts machine and moves controls to adjust speed, pressure of rollers, and tension of material.
* Observes material as it passes through machine to prevent seams, rolled selvages, or trash from damaging rollers.
* May guide material by hand.
* May verify temperature of roller, using pyrometer.
* May sew cuts of cloth together, using portable sewing machine.
* May be designated according to material embossed as silk-crepe-machine operator.
* May tend machine that imparts artificial graining, size, trademark, or other designs to sweatbands and be designated weatband-decorating-machine operator.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machine used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends embossing machine that imprints grain or pattern on plastic sheeting for use in manufacture of wall covering and padded automotive components, such as dashboards and door panels. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions rolls of sheeting in letoff rack, using hoist.
* Threads sheeting through guide rolls and onto core on windup rack. Adjusts pressure of embossing roll to imprint design to specified depth without damaging sheeting.
* Starts machine and observes operation of machine to prevent damage to goods by wrinkling or tearing.
* May laminate and emboss sheets in single operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends embossing machine that imprints designs on plastic sheeting. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves and pulls levers, as directed, to regulate heat and tension of machine.
* Positions rolls of material in letoff rack and windup racks, using hoist.
* Threads material between machine rollers.
* Moves rolls of material to storage, using handtruck.
* Feeds machine that grinds scrap.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that fuses decorative emblems, monograms, labels, collar stays, and backing material to hose or garment parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Places applique on hose or garment part or positions backing on garment part and presses button or lever to activate machine that heats and seals articles together.
* May be designated according to article fused as collar-stay-fuser tender; emblem-fuser tender; label-fuser tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that presses and smooths hat linings preparatory to installation in hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns hat lining inside-out and fits lining over heated hat block.
* Smooths and straightens lining and seam, using hands and fingers.
* Pulls lever to lower pressing form onto lining, or lowers sandfilled cloth bag onto lining to press lining using hoist.
* Depresses pedal to force steam through perforations in hat block to moisten lining and set press.
* Raises bag or releases press and removes lining from block.
* Stacks linings on table according to size.
* May place linings on hat form for cooling following removal from block.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that polishes hand-starched skeins of jacquard twine. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs skeins on pole and stretches skein to specified length.
* Removes laces that bind skeins and dips skeins into starch barrel.
* Attaches ends of starched skeins to hook that is rotated by handcrank and turns crank to wring excess starch from skeins.
* Spreads skeins on rollers of polishing machine and starts machine.
* Observes operation of machine and spreads strands to prevent bunching.
Industry:Professional careers
