- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who inspects and sorts processed material, such as hides, skins, or leather. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines material for defects, such as brand marks, cuts, and scars, and trims defects from material, using shears.
* Verifies thickness of material, using gauge.
* Sorts material according to qualities, such as color, size, and thickness.
* Returns defective material for reprocessing.
* May be designated according to material sorted as blue-leather sorter; patent-leather sorter; russet-leather sorter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts and grades wool according to length of fiber, color, and degree of fineness, utilizing sight, touch, experience, and established specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Shakes or spreads fleece over screen-topped table to remove dust.
* Picks out foreign matter, such as burrs, sticks, strings, and cinders.
* Breaks fleece into pieces and inspects and sorts pieces according to quality.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects sheep and lamb pelts to determine condition of pelts and grade of wool. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines and feels wool to determine color, texture, and length, and sorts pelts or loose wool into grades for pulling or drying.
* Inspects pickled slats (sheep skins) for cuts, tears, blemishes, and skin quality, and stacks pelts in piles according to grade.
* May record quantity and grades of wool or pelts inspected.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects sheep and lamb pelts to determine condition of pelts and grade of wool. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines and feels wool to determine color, texture, and length, and sorts pelts or loose wool into grades for pulling or drying.
* Inspects pickled slats (sheep skins) for cuts, tears, blemishes, and skin quality, and stacks pelts in piles according to grade.
* May record quantity and grades of wool or pelts inspected.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects finished felt for processing flaws, such as random thickness, grease spots, and dye marks, and grades felt, following grading specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Places roll of felt onto holding fixture at end of glass-top inspection table, assisted by another worker.
* Threads front end of felt strip between hold-down bar and table.
* Activates fluorescent light inside table and sets table gauges to measure length, width, and thickness of felt.
* Feeds felt onto takeup roller that pulls felt across lighted table.
* Depresses button to activate takeup roller.
* Examines felt for lint, grease spots, discolorations, and dye marks.
* Reads thickness and width gauges to verify conformity to specifications.
* Depresses button to stop takeup roller when felt meets length specification.
* Cuts felt from roll and weighs felt piece to detect deviation from prescribed weight.
* Marks ticket and attaches ticket to portion of felt that needs to be reworked or discarded.
* Records thickness, width, length, and weight of felt on mill ticket.
* Grades felt according to grading specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that untwists and extracts water or chemicals from knit tubing after bleaching, washing, and dyeing, and applies finish to tubing preparatory to drying. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions containers of wet knit tubing on turntable of machine.
* Turns thumbscrews to adjust width of spreader, according to specifications.
* Threads tubing through tension rollers and around spreader, and ties end of tubing to leader. Turns handwheel to regulate pressure on squeeze rollers.
* Turns valve to admit finishing solution into trough of machine.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect twists in knit tubing.
* Revolves turntable from which tubing is fed to untwist tubing.
* Measures width of tubing with hand rule to verify conformance to standards.
* Doffs tubing from swing-folding attachment. May mix finishing solution, following formula.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes weight per yard of cloth and compares computations with information on style card to determine conformance of cloth to weight standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads ticket attached to cloth rolls for information, such as style, weight, and yardage.
* Computes weight per yard, using slide rule.
* Compares results with information on style card to detect variations from standards.
* Routes cloth that varies from standards to cloth measurer, machine for verification of measurement.
* Reports variations to supervisor.
* Records weight, yardage, weight per yard, and style number on production sheet.
* Marks identifying information on cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls range consisting of units, such as chemical or dye pads, washboxes, steamboxes, J-boxes, tenter frames, curing ovens, and drying cans to desize, bleach, dye, or finish cloth and other textile goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Lines up cloth to be processed according to priority, style, and width.
* Gives directions to cloth feeder; cloth-finishing-range tender; and back tender engaged in tending range units to ensure that desizing, bleaching, dyeing, or other finishing processes conform to specifications.
* Tests chemical solutions by titration or with hydrometer to detect variation in strength and notifies mixing department to add required quantity of chemicals or water according to test results and specifications.
* Observes control panel and equipment to detect faulty operation and adjusts controls to synchronize motor-driven rollers.
* Records test results, style numbers, and yardage of cloth processed.
* May inspect cloth.
* May be designated according to process controlled as chief cloth-bleaching-range operator; chief cloth-desizing-range operator; chief cloth-dyeing-range operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates scouring train (series of tanks or bowls) to wash, rinse, and dry raw wool preparatory to dyeing or carding. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to start continuous flow of water, detergent, and acid into bowls.
* Reads thermometer and turns steam valves to heat wash and rinse solutions to specified operating temperature.
* Starts machine that feeds raw wool from hopper into washbowl and activates rakes that move wool through bowls to squeeze rolls and rinse bowl.
* Patrols scouring train to detect choke-up at squeeze rolls and removes jammed fibers by hand.
* Observes sudsing in washbowls and turns valve to increase or decrease concentration of detergent.
* Tests acidity of solution in finishing bowl by titration.
* Turns valve to control flow of acid to maintain specified concentration.
* Starts fans that circulate hot air in drier.
* Feels wool delivered from drier and adjusts thermostatic control if wool is not dry.
* Drains and cleans machine.
* May feed raw wool into scouring machine hopper.
* May direct activities of team workers and be designated Scouring-Train Operator, Chief.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates scouring train (series of tanks or bowls) to wash, rinse, and dry raw wool preparatory to dyeing or carding. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to start continuous flow of water, detergent, and acid into bowls.
* Reads thermometer and turns steam valves to heat wash and rinse solutions to specified operating temperature.
* Starts machine that feeds raw wool from hopper into washbowl and activates rakes that move wool through bowls to squeeze rolls and rinse bowl.
* Patrols scouring train to detect choke-up at squeeze rolls and removes jammed fibers by hand.
* Observes sudsing in washbowls and turns valve to increase or decrease concentration of detergent.
* Tests acidity of solution in finishing bowl by titration.
* Turns valve to control flow of acid to maintain specified concentration.
* Starts fans that circulate hot air in drier.
* Feels wool delivered from drier and adjusts thermostatic control if wool is not dry.
* Drains and cleans machine.
* May feed raw wool into scouring machine hopper.
* May direct activities of team workers and be designated Scouring-Train Operator, Chief.
Industry:Professional careers
