- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who fastens cloth onto stretching frame and brushes out nap after sizing solution is applied. Respnsibilities include:
* Places sized cloth on glued surface of frame.
* Blends size on cloth with brush.
* Brushes cloth with straight strokes to smooth and lay nap in one direction.
* Stretches frame and cuts cloth out when dry.
* Rolls cloth onto rolling rod.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in shrinking and hardening felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Estimates processing requirements such as amounts of chemicals and length of processing cycles based on knowledge of working characteristics of materials and machine capability.
* Sets up felt-processing machines, assigns duties to workers, and assists workers in solving work-related problems.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to process supervised as felting supervisor; fulling supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates fulling machine to shrink and compress felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Places roll of felt padding in trough of machine containing lubricating agents, such as soap solution.
* Threads end of felt beneath cam-actuated wooden blocks and onto takeoff reel.
* Starts machine and pushes felt evenly beneath blocks that pound and flatten felt.
* Measures rolls for specified thickness with gauge.
* Turns and inverts pads to ensure uniformity of size and shrinkage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates felting machine to attach reinforcing burlap to felt strips or to compress several layers of felt by means of heat and pressure. Respnsibilities include:
* Suspends roll of burlap and two bats of felt over conveyor belt.
* Starts conveyor and unrolls felt strips, with burlap strip between felt strips, onto conveyor.
* Opens steam valves or water sprays to moisten felt passing through steam chamber or beneath sprays.
* Stops conveyor when bed of hydraulic press is covered by felt strip.
* Opens steam valves to heat press bed.
* Starts oscillating hydraulic ram that compresses felt.
* Laps end of felt bat to ends of other bats to form continuous strip.
* Plucks foreign matter from felt surfaces with tweezers and spreads loose felt over thin spots to produce uniform products.
* Straightens layers of stock on press bed to remove wrinkled stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates fulling mill to shrink and interlock fibers of woolen cloth by application of moisture, heat, and pressure. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads cloth through tension guides or rollers which control shrinkage in width between pressure rollers, and through trap (crimp box) which controls shrinkage in length.
* Sews ends of cloth together to form endless rope, using portable sewing machine.
* Turns handwheel to regulate pressure on tension guides and sets air pressure gauge on rollers and trap, following specifications for style of cloth.
* Turns valves to admit water and soap solution to tub through which cloth passes.
* Measures distance between markings on cloth to determine when specified shrinkage has been attained.
* Ravels seam connecting ends of cloth and guides cloth over reel into handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies carroting solution to fur pelts to condition fur fibers for manufacturing felt hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours carroting solution of hydrogen peroxides, water, mercury and nitric acid into machine storage tank.
* Starts machine and turns valve to regulate flow of solution onto applicator brush.
* Lifts and feeds pelt under rotating brush or between rollers of machine that carrots fur fibers.
* May mix carroting solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends crushing machine or fulling mill that crushes and dusts carbonized vegetable matter from woolen cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts crushing machine and observes as cloth flows back and forth, to detect tear-outs.
* Stops machine, disentangles tear-out, and threads cloth through crushing rollers to swing-folding attachment. Doffs trucks of cloth from delivery end of machine.
* Removes waste from dust bins.
* Threads cloth through pressure rollers of fulling mill and sews cloth ends together to form endless rope, using sewing machine.
* Starts machine that processes cloth through pressure rollers for specified period of time.
* Ravels seam at end of cycle, laps end of cloth over reel, and starts reel to transfer cloth from machine to handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sands and smooths surface of felt strips to reduce thickness and impart finish. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of felt on machine brackets and draws end over and under machine bed and rollers onto takeup spindle.
* Turns handwheel to adjust clearance between sanding rollers according to specifications.
* Starts machine and observes felt for discolorations and loose fibers.
* Verifies thickness of felt, using gauge.
* Removes finished roll from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sands and smooths surface of felt strips to reduce thickness and impart finish. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of felt on machine brackets and draws end over and under machine bed and rollers onto takeup spindle.
* Turns handwheel to adjust clearance between sanding rollers according to specifications.
* Starts machine and observes felt for discolorations and loose fibers.
* Verifies thickness of felt, using gauge.
* Removes finished roll from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares samples of felt for use in color matching and control. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes and weighs ingredients, and blends components in milling machine.
* Compresses blended material into felt samples.
Industry:Professional careers
