- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that removes tacking stitches from selvages of fabric and opens fabric to full width after wet processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Clips tacking stitches with knife and ravels out length of stitching by hand.
* Feeds end of fabric over beating roller and through takeoff rollers and swing-folding attachment. Laps end of raveled stitching around reel and starts machine that ravels out stitching and opens cloth to full width.
* Guides cloth from swing-folding attachment into handtruck.
* May sew end of cloth to end of cloth in machine to form continuous strip, using sewing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends revolving drum that tumbles fur pelts in moist sawdust and fuller's earth to soften pelts and clean fur used in making felt hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens bales of skins, using knife or wirecutter.
* Shovels sawdust and fuller's earth into drum, pours water onto sawdust and fuller's earth, and stirs with shovel until sawdust and fuller's earth are saturated.
* Dumps skins into drum and starts drum revolving for specified time or until skins appear sufficiently clean and soft for further processing.
* May shake sawdust and fuller's earth from pelts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends revolving drum that tumbles fur pelts in moist sawdust and fuller's earth to soften pelts and clean fur used in making felt hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens bales of skins, using knife or wirecutter.
* Shovels sawdust and fuller's earth into drum, pours water onto sawdust and fuller's earth, and stirs with shovel until sawdust and fuller's earth are saturated.
* Dumps skins into drum and starts drum revolving for specified time or until skins appear sufficiently clean and soft for further processing.
* May shake sawdust and fuller's earth from pelts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies decorative ink stain to edges of leather articles, such as coin purses and wallets. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills reservoir of staining device and turns knob to activate flow of stain into nozzle.
* Places edge of article against nozzle and moves edge along nozzle for application of stain.
* Wipes smears from article, using rag and solvent.
* Places article on revolving table for drying.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing machine that mixes feathers for use in stuffing household goods, such as pillows, and cushions. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified amounts of various grades of feathers and dumps feathers into mixing machine.
* Attaches bags to discharge chutes of machine and starts pump which sucks blended feathers into bags.
* May mix feathers, using pitchfork.
* May sew tops of filled bags.
* May attach identifying tags.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that separates down from feathers and separates feathers according to quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps sacks of feathers of mixed grade into separator by hand.
* Turns wheels to adjust height of separator walls.
* Starts blower system to circulate feathers up and over separator walls, heavier or lower grades of which pass over first or lowest walls while lighter or premium grades pass over higher walls.
* Turns off blowers to allow feathers to settle to floor of bins and sweeps them into sacks.
* May add chemicals to separator during process to sterilize feathers.
* When operating machine to remove pin feathers or quills from down, may be designated pin-feather-machine operator; quill-picking-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that finish felt hat bodies, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Tends machine that buffs or sands hat bodies to smooth or polish surface.
* Tends machine that applies grease and wax to hat body to finish and stiffen body.
* Tends machine that trims brim to specified width.
* Rubs hat to remove surplus fur fibers and smooth surface of hat, using sandpaper.
* Rubs coloring powder onto hat bodies, using powder-filled cloth bag, or sprays powder onto hat with compressed-air gun.
* Presses hat brim to smooth and shape brim, using hand iron.
* May be designated according to part processed as crown finisher; or type of hat processed as wool-hat finisher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that bleach, dye, and dry bedspreads. Respnsibilities include:
* Places bedspreads into paddle-dyeing machine and adds chemicals, such as caustic, soap, bleach, dye, and salt, at designated intervals during dyeing cycle to bleach and dye bedspreads.
* Places dyed bedspreads into ram or centrifugal extractor and starts extractor to remove excess water from spreads.
* Places bedspreads into tumble drier and starts drier to dry and fluff spreads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that measures square footage of finished leather. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets automatic counter at zero.
* Starts machine and feeds leather between rollers that carry it under measuring wheels connected to dial.
* Reads dial and chalks number of square feet onto surface of leather.
* May tie leather pieces into bundles for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that guides cloth in rope form into storage bins or processing tanks in pleat-like folds to prevent tangling during subsequent removal. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads cloth through poteyes, over rollers, through sleeve of pleating mechanism, and into bin or tank.
* Starts machine and turns knob to adjust pleating device so that cloth piles in even layers.
* May guide cloth with wooden stick or by hand.
* May sew ends of cloth together, using portable sewing machine.
* May be designated according to process as sour-bleaching pleater.
Industry:Professional careers
