- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who operates machine to coat cloth, paper, or other sheet material used in production of artificial leather and other coated fabrics. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs uncoated sheeting roll on machine brackets, using hoist, or threads sheeting from calender machine through coating machine rollers onto takeup roll. Operates sewing machine to join uncoated roll to end of processed roll, and cuts material at seam after seam passes through coating and drying units.
* Adjusts doctor blade or roller clearance to produce coating of specified thickness.
* Starts machine when dryer temperature reaches specified setting.
* Turns valves to control flow of coating solution onto sheeting, or applies solution to fabric surface, using dipper and bucket.
* Observes process to prevent slippage of sheeting from width guides and turns guides and moves machine controls to correct such defects as streaks, wrinkles, and turned edges in material being processed.
* Applies gummed tape to repair holes or tears in sheeting.
* May be designated according to type of coating applied as dull-coat-mill operator; finish-coat-mill operator; first-coat operator.
* May remove coated rolls from machine, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to heat-seal vinyl film to cotton and synthetic filler in specified patterns to produce quilted fabric. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine specifications, such as type of vinyl film and batting (filler), die pattern, and total yardage to be fabricated.
* Bolts die to underside of machine ram with assistance of other worker, tapes insulating paper to bumper plate of machine, and mounts bumper plate onto machine bed under die.
* Loads vinyl film and batting onto roller bar with assistance of other worker, using hoist, and lowers roller bar onto machine feed-off winder.
* Adjusts ram stroke and pull-away arm to specified positions, using wrench.
* Adjusts thermo-seal unit controls for radio-wave frequency, sealing time, and electrical current, applying knowledge of product specifications and machine operations.
* Buffs die surfaces to remove burrs, using emery cloth.
* Adjusts slitter knives to specified width of finished material, using rule and hex key.
* Pushes buttons to activate machine for trial run, inspects quilted fabric for defects such as die cutting through material, and adjusts control settings to correct defects.
* Restarts machine and observes feeding, positioning, heat sealing, and winding operations to detect malfunctions.
* Continuously observes light signal that indicates drainage of residual current from die and machine bed after die-sealing operation.
* Pushes buttons to stop machine when signal is not emitted and notifies designated personnel.
* Attaches red tape to fabric to mark defects, such as burns, smudges, and printing errors.
* Positions and tapes end of quilted fabric emerging from machine onto takeup roller, pushes knob to set automatic yardage counter to zero, and pulls lever to stop winder when specified yardage has been reached.
* Cuts off material, using knife, tapes material end to roll, and wraps and labels roll, following prescribed procedures.
* Carries finished rolls to specified storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to coat rolls of woven fiber rugs or felt padding with vinyl or other coatings to prolong life of fiber and retard soiling. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps specified amounts of coating ingredients into vat and starts mixer.
* Turns valve to transfer coating to machine reservoir.
* Observes thermometers and adjusts electrical controls to maintain specified temperatures in bath and drying compartments.
* Threads fiber rug material through machine or sews end of new roll to end of preceding roll in machine.
* Pushes switch to start machine that moves material through coating bath and drying compartments onto rewind roller.
* Cleans machine and equipment, using water, solvents, brushes, scrapers, and chisel.
* Prepares production report on rugs coated.
* May operate machine equipped with automatic sprays to coat rugs or padding.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists coater in applying rubber or pyroxylin coating to fabric, such as carpeting and upholstery material, and to dry coating. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to admit solution to trough.
* Observes cloth to detect faulty coating and covers missed spots, using brush.
* Turns dials to control temperature of curing oven and movement of cloth through range, and to adjust tenter frame guides.
* Works as member of team to operate and clean range.
* Assists in removing full rolls from range.
* May tend intermediate range units that apply backing to carpeting and be designated Laminating-Machine-Operator Helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends glue spreading machine that applies glue to unfinished side of material, such as leather, imitation leather, fabric, and vinyl. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives light signals indicating size of material to be glued from case finisher.
* Fills reservoir with glue, turns adjustment wheel to regulate flow of glue from rollers, and starts machine.
* Selects designated size of material and guides material into feed roller which glues and drops material onto conveyor for transfer to coverers.
* May place wax paper between parts to prevent sticking.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that coats strands of yarn with size to stiffen and strengthen yarn for further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions yarn bobbins and takeup cylinders on spindles of machine.
* Threads yarn over fingers of tension guides, across size-covered rollers, and around cylinders.
* Determines tension of yarn strands, using tensiometer.
* Pulls or releases yarn between tension guide and takeup cylinder to increase or decrease tension.
* Turns valve to admit size into retaining trough of machine.
* Observes machine to detect deviation of flow or supply of size from standard and notifies knitting-machine fixer, head of malfunction.
* Observes machine to detect yarn breakage and ties knot or rewraps yarn end around sizing cylinder to repair breaks.
* Doffs and labels cylinders of sized yarn.
* May mix size, following formula.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates range to laminate materials, such as cloth, carpeting, felt, and foam rubber. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of felt or foam rubber on machine brackets.
* Pushes truck of cloth into feeding position.
* Sews cloth and felt or foam rubber to leader using portable sewing machine, or threads layers of materials through range unit guides and rollers.
* Turns dials and handwheels to adjust blade that spreads predetermined quantity of adhesive onto cloth, regulate heat lamps and speed of laminating rollers, or to adjust tenter frame according to width of materials.
* Turns valve to admit steam into drying cans or steam pipes and starts range.
* Aligns cloth entering machine and observes fabrics to detect wrinkles and holes.
* Patches holes with masking tape and smooths wrinkles by hand.
* May apply adhesive to material with trowel or dipper.
* May work as member of team to guide cloth into range.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies latex to backs of rugs to secure yarn tufts in backing material, using spray gun, brush, or trowel. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads rug, bottom-side-up, over specified frame and hooks edges onto frame spikes.
* Covers rug with backing material and attaches backing edges to spikes.
* Sprays or pours and spreads latex onto backing, using spray gun or bucket and trowel.
* Turns knob and moves levers to set temperature and speed of track-mounted drying machine that traverses frame and dries rug.
* Removes rug from frame onto table, in roll form, for further processing.
* May tend machine equipped with rollers, that applies latex to back of carpeting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends calender machine that compresses cloth and coated cloth sheeting to produce artificial leather fabric. Respnsibilities include:
* Changes cloth rolls on letoff rack and windup racks, and threads sheeting through calender rollers with assistance of general laborer.
* Scrapes surfaces of fiber rollers to remove foreign material.
* Sews ends of cloth rolls together to form continuous sheet, using sewing machine.
* Inspects sheeting being calendered to detect turned edges, material defects, or uneven coating.
* Applies gummed tape to holes, faulty seams, or frayed edges, and smooths wrinkles.
* Applies soap solution to roller to remove surface depressions, and starts calender to dry rollers by friction.
* May be designated according to processing stage as raw-calender operator; second-calender operator; third-calender operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that adds silk-like luster to cotton cloth and increases strength and affinity of cloth for dyes. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of cloth on machine or pulls supply cloth from handtruck or overhead poteyes and sews end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Turns valve to admit caustic into vats and handwheel to adjust tenter frame clips to maintain tension on cloth and prevent shrinkage as cloth passes through soapy-water spray.
* Sets thermostat to control temperature of caustic bath.
* Starts machine and observes flow of cloth through machine units to detect holes in cloth and torn selvages.
* Cuts out defects, using scissors, and seams ends of cloth.
* Turns knobs on control panel to synchronize motor speeds of machine units.
* Adds soap to wash bath as suds are depleted.
Industry:Professional careers
