- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends range that mercerizes and dries yarn in warp form. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours caustic soda, acids, and softeners into mixing tanks, according to formula.
* Turns valves to allow solutions to flow into mercerizing, neutralizing, and finishing vats.
* Mounts balls of warp yarn in creel, using hoist or lift and aid of yarn-mercerizer-operator helper.
* Ties ends of warp to leader, starts machine, and observes movement of warp through baths to detect breaks or tangles.
* Pulls broken yarn from vat, using hook, and ties ends.
* Tests caustic solution, using hydrometer, and adds water or caustic to restore solution to prescribed strength.
* Adjusts controls to regulate water and drier temperature and speed at which yarn passes through machine, according to yarn type.
* May tend discharge end of drier and observe yarn passing through swing-folding attachment into handtruck, boxes, or cans.
* May oil and make minor adjustments and repairs to machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists yarn-mercerizer operator ii in mercerizing yarn, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts balls of warp yarn in creel, using hoist or lift truck, with aid of operator.
* Straightens tangled yarn and ties broken ends.
* Conveys yarn and chemicals to and from storage, using handtruck.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who spreads premixed solutions, such as dope, grease, or lacquer, on leather, using applicator, to finish or waterproof leather.
* Positions coated leather on conveyor belt to move leather through drying oven.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting floats on filling pile fabrics: Examines machines and cloth for cutting defects and directs cutting-machine fixer to repair or replace defective machine parts.
* Trains workers in operations, such as cutting floats, sharpening knives, and detecting uncut floats.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and repairs machines that cut floats on filling pile fabrics, employing knowledge of machine operation and cutting process. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns thumbscrews to raise or lower straightedge (metal bar over which cloth passes) so that blades will cut through filling floats without damaging ground cloth, using thickness gauge as guide.
* Patrols work area and examines cloth and machines to detect operating defects.
* Replaces worn or broken parts, such as belts, cams, gears, pulleys, and cutting blades, using handtools.
* May operate grinding machine to sharpen cutting blades.
* May lubricate machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more cutting machines that cut woven races in greige corduroy cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine.
* Places slotted wire guides under circular cutting blades so blades project into guide slots, and inserts guides into alternate races with fingers.
* Positions magnetic stop-motion bar that automatically stops machine when guides slip out of cloth races and make contact with bar.
* Starts machine and observes cloth to detect inferior cutting.
* Notifies cutting-machine fixer of inferior cutting resulting from machine malfunction.
* Withdraws guides at seams, pulls seam through machine, and inserts guides into races behind seam to continue cutting process.
* Records lot number, piece number, yardage, and production.
* Doffs cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.
* Points guide tips and aligns guides, using pliers, whetstone, and emery cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that raises fibers on surface of cloth to give cloth soft, fluffy texture. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions truck of folded cloth at entry end of machine or mounts roll of cloth on machine brackets.
* Sews cloth to leader in napper with surface to be napped contacting napping cylinder.
* Feeds each lot of cloth through machine for specified number of nappings.
* Examines and feels cloth to determine that finish conforms to standards.
* Ravels seams between cloth lots and doffs machine.
* May mark lot numbers on cloth with crayon.
* May turn handwheels to change machine speed and adjust cloth tension according to texture of cloth.
* May be designated according to type of material napped as silk brusher; sueding-machine tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that raises nap on socks to produce woolly appearance. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and feeds socks into rollers that automatically position socks under revolving wire-covered cylinder for brushing.
* Removes napped socks from machine.
* Examines socks to determine if nap has been raised according to specifications and notifies fixer of machine malfunction.
* May turn handwheel to adjust height of cylinder according to sock thickness.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who scrapes particles of flesh, fat, or protective tissue from skins or pelts to clean and soften them. Respnsibilities include:
* Scrapes particles off with knife or straddles bench that has vertical knife attached and pulls skin over angled knife to remove excess or precise amount of particles, taking care not to cut into skins.
* Sharpens cutting edges of knife and bends knife to specified shaving angle, using handtools.
* May use rotary knife or rotary blade to scrape pelts.
* May be designated according to kind of pelt scraped as rabbit flesher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes guard hairs (long coarse hairs) from pelts of fur-bearing animals, such as beavers, nutrias, and rabbits, to enhance appearance of finished pelts, using fur plucking device. Respnsibilities include:
* Wraps forward edge of pelt around rod of movable frame to expose hairs for plucking.
* Starts device and pushes frame towards rotary head that plucks (cuts off) guard hairs, taking care not to damage shorter hairs in pelt.
* Wraps remainder of pelt around rod to facilitate complete removal of coarse hairs from pelts.
* May pluck hairs from pelts, using beaming knife.
Industry:Professional careers
