- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that stretches, softens, and cleans pelts. Respnsibilities include:
* Places pelt on slanted board and depresses pedal to elevate board into contact with rotating roller.
* Holds and guides pelt under roller as machine stretches and softens pelt and removes undesired flesh from skin side.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that cleans, sterilizes, and dries feathers used to stuff cushions, and pillows. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps sacks of feathers on floor and removes foreign matter.
* Starts machine and loads feathers to be cleaned and sterilized with steam and dried with hot air into hopper of machine.
* Opens air valve to blow feathers into storage bins.
* May weigh specified amount of feathers prior to loading machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that unwinds cloth from rolls and discharges it into loose or folded form to facilitate further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts metal rod through roll of cloth and lifts cloth into feeding position.
* Sews end of cloth roll to cloth in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Positions truck under delivery roller or swing-folding attachment and starts machine.
* Pushes loaded trucks from area.
* May observe cloth to detect defective seams and resew seams to prevent raveling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that opens cloth to full width after cloth is processed in rope form: Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine, or threads cloth through guides and rollers, over beaters that revolve against direction of cloth to cause cloth to open and over scrimp rail that stretches and smooths cloth.
* Starts machine and observes cloth passing over beaters to ensure cloth is opened to full width.
* Scutcher is usually in tandem with other machines, such as vacuum extractor, mangle, or detacker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that opens cloth to full width after cloth is processed in rope form: Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine, or threads cloth through guides and rollers, over beaters that revolve against direction of cloth to cause cloth to open and over scrimp rail that stretches and smooths cloth.
* Starts machine and observes cloth passing over beaters to ensure cloth is opened to full width.
* Scutcher is usually in tandem with other machines, such as vacuum extractor, mangle, or detacker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes moisture or wrinkles from felt sheets or hides. Respnsibilities include:
* Places material between rollers of machine and depresses pedal that rotates lower roller against upper roller to press moisture or smooth wrinkles from material.
* Releases pedal to separate rollers and stop machine.
* Removes material from rollers and places material on cart.
* May move controls to adjust rollers according to thickness of material.
* May be designated according to section of leather processed as belly wringer; crop-setting-out-machine operator; or according to type of leather processed as blue-leather setter; colored-leather setter.
* May sponge water on hides before rolling to ensure uniformity of moisture content and be designated Sponger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that crimps thermoplastic yarn to increase bulk, add elasticity, and provide yarn with a soft hand. Respnsibilities include:
* Places supply packages on spindles and threads yarn ends through guides, feed rolls, and into crimping attachments. Pulls yarn ends from stuffer boxes of crimping attachments, using wire hook, threads ends through guides, and attaches ends to takeup packages.
* Observes flow of yarn through machine to detect breaks in yarn and signal lights to detect variations in temperature of crimping attachments.
* Ties broken yarn ends by hand or with knotter and reports malfunction of machine to machine fixer.
* Stops winding unit and doffs full package.
* May wrap yarn packages in paper and pack packages in shipping containers.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade name of yarn produced.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machine that rounds edges of thread packages so that dye will penetrate thread uniformly.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears from delivery end of range or machine that dyes, finishes, washes, treats, or dries cloth or other textile goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes as cloth winds onto rolls or passes through swing-folding attachment into trucks and notifies supervisor of obvious flaws.
* Measures cloth with ruler and feels cloth discharging from drying cans or tenter frame to verify that cloth meets specifications for width and dryness.
* Moves lever to lower blade that cuts cloth at seams or ravels seams connecting lengths to remove cloth from machine.
* Pushes roll of cloth onto platform or lifts roll from machine brackets, using hoist.
* Places tube on winding shaft and starts cloth winding on tube.
* Replaces filled truck at swing-folding attachment with empty truck to receive folded cloth.
* May wrap cloth roll with burlap.
* May regulate heat of drying cans and flow of water into washboxes by turning valves.
* May be designated according to type of machine as cloth-bleaching-range back-tender; cloth-finishing-range back-tender; cloth-washer back-tender; drying-machine back-tender; dyeing-machine back-tender; tenter-frame back-tender.
* May be designated: cloth-mercerizer back-tender; desizing-machine back-tender; dry-cans back-tender; mangle back-tender; mangle catcher; singer back-tender; soaping-machine back-tender; tire-fabric-impregnating-range back-tender; white-washer piler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds cloth into any of various textile finishing machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns trucks or rolls of cloth to be processed through machine according to priority, style, and width.
* Positions truck of cloth at feed end of machine or mounts roll of cloth onto brackets at scray.
* Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine.
* Straightens cloth as it enters machine.
* May assist machine operator to thread cloth through machine.
* May be designated according to machine fed as Finishing-Range Feeder; Mercerizing-Range Feeder; Tenter-Frame Feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
