- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who controls range to stretch and shrink sheets of tire fabric and reduce fabric elasticity. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves and pushes buttons to start range, admit flow of steam, water, and finishing solutions to range units, and to regulate machine speeds and fabric tension.
* Records information, such as fabric yardage processed, temperature readings, fabric tensions, machine speeds, and delays caused by range malfunctions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bonds, stretches, and applies finishing solution to synthetic thread to improve sewing quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Places supply packages in creel.
* Draws ends from packages over, through, and around machine units, guides, and rollers, and attaches ends to takeup reels.
* Turns valves and taps to transfer bonding and finishing solutions to bath units.
* Observes operation to detect breaks or lap-ups. Cuts tangles with knife and rethreads ends through machine units.
* Observes temperature and viscosity control charts for variations from standards.
* Adds chemicals to strengthen or dilute solutions or resets temperature indicator (control).
* Verifies roller speeds, using tachometer, and turns handle on roller units to adjust speeds.
* Reports malfunctions to bonding-machine setter.
* Removes full packages from takeup rack and pushes yarn to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends feed-end of range that applies size, starch, water-repellent, wrinkle resistant, or other chemical finishes to cloth, stretches cloth to specified width, and dries finished cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions truck of folded cloth at feed-end of machine or inserts rod through cloth roll and pushes roll onto brackets.
* Sews cloth end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Turns valve to permit flow of finish to trough under mangle.
* Turns handwheels and knobs to control temperature of drying cans and movement of cloth through range, and to adjust width and tension guides.
* Observes cloth entering machine to detect flaws, such as holes and torn selvages.
* Cuts out flaws, using scissors.
* When back-filling cloth with starch, positions doctor at specified angle to scrape excess starch from cloth.
* Cleans and greases machines.
* May be designated according to type of finish applied as back sizer; waterproofing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests fabric buffing wheels to determine resistance to pressure and straightens edges of fabric, using metal rod. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts stack of buffing wheels on shaft in cabinet and closes cabinet door.
* Presses button to rotate buffing wheels.
* Rakes edges of revolving buffing wheels with slanted edge of rod through opening in cabinet.
* Removes wheels having frayed edges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that shapes and dries hose before or after dyeing process, using either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Pulls hose over leg-shaped forms of machine, aligns toe and heel with form, and pulls welt down to specified point on forms.
* Presses button or depresses pedal to start conveyor that carries filled set of forms into drying chamber and removes finished set from chamber.
* Strips shaped hose from boarding forms.
* (2) Depresses pedal to start circular conveyor that carries forms through drying chamber and automatic stripping mechanism.
* Pulls and aligns hose over forms as conveyor moves forms in front of worker.
* Periodically feels surface of forms for roughness to determine need for waxing.
* May replace toe boards of boarding forms, using key.
* May turn valves to increase or decrease steam pressure and temperature of drying chamber according to type of hose being boarded.
* May be designated according to process as Preboarder.
* May tend machine that shapes, dyes, and dries hosiery and be designated dye-boarding-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that agitates hats after blocking to render material soft and pliable. Respnsibilities include:
* Places hats in chamber of machine and starts rotation of paddle arms that toss hats about until material becomes pliable.
* Stops machine after specified time and removes hats for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that agitates hats after blocking to render material soft and pliable. Respnsibilities include:
* Places hats in chamber of machine and starts rotation of paddle arms that toss hats about until material becomes pliable.
* Stops machine after specified time and removes hats for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that burns out (dissolves) connecting threads in knitted lace to separate lace into individual bands. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads beams of lace onto rack.
* Pushes rack into machine chamber and bolts door, using wrench.
* Turns valve to transfer acid solution from still to machine.
* Presses button to start rotation of lace in acid bath that dissolves connecting threads.
* Removes lace from machine for further processing.
* May tend still to reclaim solvents for reuse.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that measures cloth preparatory to or after dyeing and finishing. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads cloth from supply truck, bale, or roll through feeder rollers, and laps end around takeup roll of machine or guides cloth through swing-folding attachment. Turns knob to set yardage meter to zero.
* Starts machine and straightens cloth that becomes twisted entering machine.
* Stops machine and records yardage of cloth as indicated by meter.
* May compare meter reading with yardage on manufacturer's tag and record difference.
* May weigh cloth and record weight.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends intermediate units of cloth or other textile goods desizing, bleaching, dyeing, or finishing ranges, such as washboxes, tenter frame, drying cans, and curing ovens: Turns valves to admit steam, water, and chemicals to washboxes and chemical troughs.
* Patrols area between entry and terminal units to detect faulty operation of equipment.
* Turns knobs to adjust temperature in drying and curing units and to regulate speed of motor-driven rollers, according to specifications.
* Reports grease spots, holes, and tears in cloth to operator of range.
* Disentangles tear-outs, rethreads unit, and sews torn cloth, using portable sewing machine.
* May mix chemicals or dyes.
* May test strength of chemical solutions by titration or with hydrometer.
* May be designated according to process as cloth-bleaching-range tender; cloth-desizing-range tender; cloth-dyeing-range tender; tire-fabric-impregnating-range tender.
Industry:Professional careers
