- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends equipment that steams and dries fiber mats to untwist yarns and impart fuller surface to mat. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts steam valves to regulate flow of spray on mats.
* Pushes button to start conveyor that moves mats through steam and drying cabinets.
* Loads mats on conveyor and observes thermometers and adjusts controls to maintain specified temperature in cabinets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vacuum drier that removes moisture from felt pads. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes dollies loaded with pads into tunnel of drying chamber.
* Lifts pads onto drying racks.
* Closes airtight doors and starts vacuum pumps and electric fans.
* Opens steam valves to adjust heat of drying chamber to specified temperature.
* Loads dried pads on dollies for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that spins felt hat bodies to remove excess water. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls bodies over hat-shaped holder of machine or places bodies in basket.
* Presses button or depresses pedal to start holder or basket spinning, removing excess water from bodies.
* Releases pedal to stop machine and feels hat bodies to ascertain dryness.
* May soak hat bodies in waterproofing solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment in dry room that winds coated fabrics into rolls. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns track-mounted windup rack with dry room alley to receive coated cloth.
* Cleans foreign material from water-cooled rollers, using rag, solvent, and scraper.
* Threads cloth from dry room through rollers, and sews cloth to leader on windup core, using automatic sewing machine.
* Adjusts control to synchronize winding tension with cloth feed to avoid wrinkles, turned edges, and tears.
* Places cloth-support sticks on handtruck as sticks arrive from dry room.
* Notifies supervisor of recurring coating defects.
* Lifts finished roll from rack onto dolly, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that dries felt strips, assisted by another worker. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes work ticket from rolls of felt and records on ticket drying time and temperature required to dry felt.
* Places felt rolls on holding fixture of drying chamber, and turns handcrank to adjust carrier rack of chamber to width of felt.
* Unrolls felt and attaches edges of entire roll to spikes on both sides of carrier rack, using wooden hammer.
* Pushes carrier rack with felt into drying chamber, closes chamber door, and turns valves to obtain specified steam pressure and temperature.
* Presses button to start fan to circulate heat evenly in chamber, and turns dial of timer to set length of drying cycle, according to thickness of felt.
* Observes gauges to maintain specified chamber temperature and steam pressure.
* Closes steam valve and opens chamber door to cool drying chamber.
* Feels felt to ascertain dryness.
* Rerolls felt for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds loose, partly dried textile fibers into pipe through which fibers are blown to drier or storage bin.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays wet, freshly carroted pelts in trays on conveyor chain that carries pelts through heated drying chamber to prepare fur for manufacturing felt hats.
* May push handtrucks loaded with skins into drying room and lay out skins on drying trays.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds finished lasted shoes into drying chamber to dry and stiffen leather and shape shoes. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes lasted shoes from bar racks and places shoes on racks having padded rests.
* Starts conveyor track and pushes rack of shoes onto moving track that carries rack into drying chamber.
* Removes rack at other end of chamber after specified time.
* May set scale to adjust drying room temperature according to hygrometer readings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds feathers, used in stuffing mattresses, pillows, and cushions, into beating machine that removes dust and dirt from feathers and discharges feathers into bag.
* Removes filled bag from machine outlet pipe and replaces filled bag with empty bag.
* May feed feathers into machine that fluffs feathers preparatory to removal of dust and dirt.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads feathers, used for stuffing pillows and cushions, into steam-heated drying tank or centrifugal drier to dry feathers after washing.
* Removes feathers from drier by hand or opens outlet valve.
Industry:Professional careers
