- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that washes and treats knitted tubular cloth with chemicals following finishing. Respnsibilities include:
* Joins cloth ends together to form continuous lengths, using sewing machine.
* Loads cloth in machine compartments and pours specified chemicals in machine trough, using dipper.
* Presses button and flips switches to start machine and observes dials and gauges for variations from standards.
* Removes cloth from machine onto handtruck following completion of processing cycles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends open-developer machine that develops dye in dyed or printed cloth, removes excess color from cloth, and wets cloth before soaping process. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads end of roll of cloth through machine rolls.
* Turns steam valves to heat machine tank and opens valves to admit specified chemicals into tank and to start water spray.
* Turns handwheels to close wringer rolls and starts machine.
* Straightens wrinkles in cloth as cloth enters machine.
* Sews end of new roll of cloth to end in machine during processing, using portable sewing machine.
* Drains tank of machine after cloth is processed.
* May mix chemicals in storage tank to develop desired color of cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that dyes or bleaches yarn wound on perforated beams I, tubes I, or spring coils. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads package stand or beam of yarn into machine, using power hoist.
* Closes lid and tightens lid bolts with wrench.
* Mixes preweighed dye or bleach with water in pail or overflow tank, stirring with paddle.
* Turns valves to control steam and water flow.
* Sets controls to pump dye or bleach into machine that automatically processes and rinses yarn at specified temperature and pressure.
* Adds chemicals during dyeing or bleaching cycle as specified.
* May load packages of yarn onto perforated spindles of stand and unload machine.
* May weigh dyes according to formula.
* May tend machine to bleach yarn and be designated Yarn-Bleaching-Machine Operator.
* May tend machine to dye raw fibers or tops and be designated Raw-Stock-Dyeing-Machine Tender; Top-Dyeing-Machine Tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends padding machine that saturates cloth with dye preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions handtruck of cloth at feed-end of machine or mounts roll of cloth on machine, using power hoist, and threads cloth through rollers, or sews supply end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Sets air pressure gauge to control pressure on squeeze roll and temperature gauge to control temperature of dye.
* Notifies dye-weigher helper to release dye to overflow tank.
* Turns valves to fill padding tank with dye.
* Starts machine to pass cloth through dye, between squeeze rolls and onto takeup roll. Doffs roll of cloth from machine, or may feed cloth to set of drying cans. Cuts sample of cloth for inspection by supervisor dyer.
* May weigh and mix dye and chemicals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends padding machine that saturates cloth with dye preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions handtruck of cloth at feed-end of machine or mounts roll of cloth on machine, using power hoist, and threads cloth through rollers, or sews supply end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Sets air pressure gauge to control pressure on squeeze roll and temperature gauge to control temperature of dye.
* Notifies dye-weigher helper to release dye to overflow tank.
* Turns valves to fill padding tank with dye.
* Starts machine to pass cloth through dye, between squeeze rolls and onto takeup roll. Doffs roll of cloth from machine, or may feed cloth to set of drying cans. Cuts sample of cloth for inspection by supervisor dyer.
* May weigh and mix dye and chemicals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends miniature equipment that develops color in sample swatches of printed cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Places sample in miniature steam cabinet and turns valves to spray chemicals and steam into cabinet for specified period of time.
* Removes sample swatch from cabinet and washes swatch by hand to remove excess color and chemicals.
* Squeezes excess water from sample, using wringer, and dries sample over heated drum.
* Returns sample swatch to cloth printer for comparison with standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine, consisting of series of subdivided tanks, that coats cloth with silicate or other chemical solution to strengthen and fluff cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps to transfer chemicals and water into mixing tank above machine.
* Determines specific gravity of solution, using hydrometer, and adds chemicals or water until required specific gravity is attained.
* Threads end of roll of cloth through guides and squeeze rollers of tanks and over takeup reel at end of tanks.
* Turns rheostat controls to obtain specified roller speed and tank temperature.
* Turns valve to admit specified amount of silicate or other chemical solution into tanks.
* Starts machine and observes cloth as cloth passes through tanks and onto takeup reel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that saturates rolls of untreated roofing felt with hot, liquid asphalt. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads felt through machine rollers and starts machine.
* Turns wheels and moves levers to regulate machine speed, flow of asphalt, and tension on felt and press rollers.
* Presses control button to regulate flow of felt to ensure uniform saturation and prevent damage of felt.
* Tears test pieces from saturated felt to verify specified degree of saturation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that washes and dries twine. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit soap solution to starch pots (tanks) of machine and to admit steam to drying cylinder.
* Creels machine with bobbins of twine and threads twine through starch pots and drying cylinder.
* Attaches ends of twine to takeup bobbins.
* Starts machine and observes movement of twine through machine and onto takeup bobbins to detect malfunctions, such as tangles and breaks.
* Doffs bobbins of cleaned twine.
* Scrapes accumulations of dried soap from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tanks, vats, or drums in which sheepskins are pickled. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill equipment with water.
* Weighs and dumps specified amounts of lime, salt, detergents, and acid into separate tanks.
* Throws slats (sheepskins less wool), by hand or using tongs, into lime tank to remove fat and flesh, into detergent tank to remove traces of lime, and into salt and acid tank to pickle slats.
* Starts agitators in tanks and empties and refills tanks.
* May perform all processes, using rotating drum, and be designated Pickling-Drum Operator (meat products).
* May be known according to specific task performed as Lime-Vat Tender (meat products).
Industry:Professional careers
