- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends equipment that saturates continuous sheet of felt paper with asphalt to serve as carrier or backing for hard-surface floor coverings. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts panelboard controls to pump and maintain specified level of asphalt in tank.
* Regulates machine to compensate for variations in penetration of saturant, according to visual examination, or as indicated on control panel gauge.
* Adjusts guides to align felt paper feeding through machine, using handtools.
* Examines continuous sheet of felt paper to detect tears or breaks as material passes through machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that saturates continuous sheet of felt paper with asphalt to serve as carrier or backing for hard-surface floor coverings. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts panelboard controls to pump and maintain specified level of asphalt in tank.
* Regulates machine to compensate for variations in penetration of saturant, according to visual examination, or as indicated on control panel gauge.
* Adjusts guides to align felt paper feeding through machine, using handtools.
* Examines continuous sheet of felt paper to detect tears or breaks as material passes through machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies finish to felt or fabrics to increase thickness and bulk of material. Respnsibilities include:
* Places roll of material in feed holder of machine, threads end through rollers, and attaches material to rewind spindle, or sews end of material to leader in machine.
* Fills trough with specified sizing and adjusts doctor or fills spray gun tank with specified sizing.
* Rotates air valve knob to adjust spray of size on fabric.
* Turns knob to admit steam to drying rolls, positions lever to set speed of machine, and starts machine.
* May turn knobs to regulate temperature and blowers in drying oven.
* May be designated according to fabric sized as burlap-sizing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to apply finishing solution to narrow fabrics, such as elastic, labels, ribbon, or tape. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures and mixes ingredients for finishing solution in storage vat or can, following formula.
* Turns valve to admit solution to trough of machine or pours or dips solution from can into trough.
* Ties, pins, or staples ends of fabric to leader in machine or threads ends through rollers (pads) and drying cans. Feels finished fabric to determine degree of dryness and turns handwheels or knobs to regulate speed at which fabric passes through machine.
* Observes fabric finish to determine conformance to standards and turns handwheel or replaces weights to regulate pressure of rollers or drying cans.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects cloth samples during processing for use in determining conformance to dyeing specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts patch from cloth in specified dye becks, using scissors.
* Bathes samples in saline and water solutions to set dye in cloth and remove excess moisture from cloth.
* Dries and steams sample, using drier and steamer.
* Dips sample in caustic or acid solutions to dissolve selected fibers from cloth, using tongs.
* Staples and submits samples to supervisor dyer for analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes soil from garments, using either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Examines garment to detect lint, loose threads, and soiled areas.
* Brushes lint and loose threads from garment.
* Sponges soiled areas with sponge or cloth saturated with cleaning fluid or soap and water.
* Removes excess fluid or soap from garment, using damp cloth.
* Spreads garment on bench or table to dry.
* (2) Examines garment for soiled area and places garment on buck (padded table) of machine.
* Depresses pedal to force steam through buck and hose and guides nozzle of hose over soiled area.
* Releases pedal to stop steam and depresses pedal to circulate hot air through buck and hose to dry garment and prevent formation of cleaning rings.
* May clean and dry soiled garments, using spray gun.
* May trim excess material from seams and frayed edges of garment, using scissors.
* May hang garments on hangers.
* May attach tags and labels to garments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes, rinses, and dries sliver to remove impurities, excess dye, and odors. Respnsibilities include:
* Places balls of sliver on spindles or floor, or sets cans of sliver at feed-end of machine.
* Pieces up sliver with strand left in machine or inserts end of sliver into machine that draws sliver through washing and rinsing solutions, squeeze rollers, and drying cabinets.
* Turns valves to regulate circulation of washing and rinsing solutions and to adjust temperature of drying cabinets.
* Intermingles broken ends of fibers to piece up broken sliver.
* May insert end of sliver in gilling attachment that blends strands and winds sliver into ball.
* May weigh and pack balls of sliver for shipment.
* May tend machine with oil spray attachment that conditions fiber for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that scours and dyes cloth wound on perforated beam. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads beam of cloth onto machine carriage, using electric hoist.
* Pushes carriage into dyeing chamber and bolts door.
* Places sample spool of material in miniature pressure chamber to obtain swatches for inspection.
* May tend open-top vat and be designated Beam Dyer, Recessed Vat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that scours and dyes cloth wound on perforated beam. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads beam of cloth onto machine carriage, using electric hoist.
* Pushes carriage into dyeing chamber and bolts door.
* Places sample spool of material in miniature pressure chamber to obtain swatches for inspection.
* May tend open-top vat and be designated Beam Dyer, Recessed Vat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends feed-end of range that bleaches, washes, and dries greige cloth preparatory to printing, dyeing, or finishing. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls cloth from overhead carrier, positions truck of folded cloth at feed-end of machine, or mounts roll of cloth onto brackets at scray.
* Sews cloth end to leader in range, using portable sewing machine.
* Presses button or turns handwheel to set width guide according to width of cloth.
* Turns valves to control level of chemicals in mangle, washboxes, and peroxide saturator.
* Turns knobs to adjust pressure on squeeze rollers and to set speed of range as specified for various cloth styles.
* Observes cloth entering machine to detect bad seams or flaws that might cause tear-outs.
* Stops range and seams cloth to correct flaws.
* May thread cloth through range when leader not left in range.
* May tend range that washes, bleaches, scours, whitens, and dries cloth preparatory to further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
