- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that agitates fur felt hat cones to mat together interlocking fibers and harden cones preparatory to forming into hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Wraps wet cones in burlap and wrings or places cones in extractor and starts machine to remove excess water.
* Wraps cones in woolen cloth and places cloth containing cones on rollers of hardening machine.
* Pulls handle to lower upper rollers onto cones and simultaneously start timed rollers that agitate cones and tighten fibers in tip of cones.
* Removes cloth containing cones and repeats operation to tighten fibers in brim area of cones.
* May inspect cones and work fibers into holes and thin spots, using fingers, to repair damaged cones.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hat-forming machine that mats together fur fibers into hat cones. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions perforated metal cone on revolving turntable of machine that draws fur fiber onto metal cone.
* Closes doors of machine to preserve vacuum around metal cone.
* Depresses pedal to start conveyor belt that deposits preweighed amount of fur fiber in dome of machine.
* Observes fur flow onto cone and opens doors at completion of fur dumping cycle.
* Wraps damp cloth around felt cone and places metal cover over cloth.
* Carries cone from machine turntable to platform of sinker.
* Depresses pedal that lowers cone into heated water to strengthen fiber cohesion.
* Releases pedal to raise cone from sinker and removes cone.
* Removes cover, cloth, and felt cone from perforated cone.
* May tend machine that converts sheets of woolen fiber to form hat cones and be designated Wool-Hat-Forming-Machine Tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that kneads fur (felt hat) cones to interlock fibers and shrink cones by either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Positions cones on belt that moves cones beneath water sprinkler pipes, between rollers, and onto second belt that returns cones to worker.
* Measures cones, using ruler.
* Repeats process until cone has shrunk to size specified.
* (2) Places cones in machine cylinder and turns handle to fill cylinder with hot water, or pours acid-water solution into tank.
* Starts agitators that knead and tumble cones to interlock fibers and shrink cone.
* Measures cones, using ruler.
* Repeats process until cone has shrunk to specified size.
* May stretch cones to specified sizes, using wire frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that tests hard felt sheets for uniformity of thickness. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews to set recorder dials and feed rollers for specific thickness of felt.
* Starts machine and guides felt between feed rollers.
* Observes recording dials to ascertain that felt thickness registers within allowable limits and rejects sheets not meeting specifications.
* Labels piles of accepted and rejected sheets.
* May reduce thickness of sheets, using drum-type sanding machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that tests hard felt sheets for uniformity of thickness. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews to set recorder dials and feed rollers for specific thickness of felt.
* Starts machine and guides felt between feed rollers.
* Observes recording dials to ascertain that felt thickness registers within allowable limits and rejects sheets not meeting specifications.
* Labels piles of accepted and rejected sheets.
* May reduce thickness of sheets, using drum-type sanding machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears pelts from carroting machine onto handtrucks for further processing in manufacture of felt hats.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists felting-machine operator to attach reinforcing burlap to felt strips or to compress layers of felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts bats of felt into place at end of conveyor.
* Smooths wrinkles from felt, and plucks foreign matter from felt, using tweezers.
* Laps ends of felt bats with ends of successive bats to form continuous strips of padding.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists felting-machine operator to attach reinforcing burlap to felt strips or to compress layers of felt. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts bats of felt into place at end of conveyor.
* Smooths wrinkles from felt, and plucks foreign matter from felt, using tweezers.
* Laps ends of felt bats with ends of successive bats to form continuous strips of padding.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs out fur fibers for use in making hats, and spreads fibers on conveyor leading to hat-forming machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified quantity of fur required to form each hat, using scale.
* Spreads fibers on belt conveyor leading to feed gate of hat-forming machine, and moves lever to raise gate and dump fibers into machine.
* Stops conveyor after fur is dumped into machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in machine manufacturing of felt goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts felt from feed rolls and removes rolls of processed material from machine.
* Marks length of finished felt on tag attached to roll.
* Lifts and positions rolls of base material and bats into feed holders of machine.
* Hand sews or glues together roll ends to form continuous feed through machine.
* Transfers materials by handtruck or dolly from discharge end of one machine to feed end of next.
* Picks up scraps of material around machine and throws scraps into bins or hoppers.
* Fills pans on machines with sizing inks.
* Measures and dumps spray solution ingredients in mixing vats according to specifications.
* Removes foreign particles from scoured and blended stock.
* Lifts felt rolls from conveyors, and stacks and bundles finished felt rolls to prepare rolls for shipment or stock.
* May assist operators to set up machine.
* May be designated by specific activity performed as bat carrier; or according to machine operated as box feeder; cloth-printer helper; garnett-machine-operator helper; needle-loom-operator helper; sizing-machine-and-drier-operator helper.
* May be designated: coater helper; automatic die-cutting-machine-operator helper; picking-machine-operator helper.
Industry:Professional careers
