- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends drawing frames that combine several strands of sliver into one strand, distributing weight uniformly, and arranging fibers in parallel order. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls cans of sliver to creeling position.
* Threads end of sliver through guides, stop-motion device, drawing rollers, condenser, and coiler head, and into revolving can, or attaches sliver to preceding end by overlapping and twisting ends with fingers.
* Presses button to start machines, and patrols machines to observe flow of sliver and signal lights indicating machine stoppage caused by sliver break.
* Repairs breaks in sliver by matting and rolling broken ends together between thumb and fingers.
* Replaces filled cans of sliver from coiler head with empty cans.
* Notifies repair personnel of machine malfunctions.
* Cleans rollers with airhose.
* May oil machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends finisher carding machine with tape condenser that cleans and straightens wool, asbestos, or synthetic fibers, and condenses fiber into roving. Responsibilities include:
* Observes carding and condensing to detect clogged rollers and breaks in roving ends.
* Laps broken roving ends over spool to resume winding.
* Removes broken roving ends that have wound on other than specified spools, using fingers.
* Doffs full spools of roving, places empty spool in winding position, and wraps roving ends around empty spool to continue winding process.
* Removes fibers from clogged rollers by hand.
* Cleans machine, using airhose and rake, and oils moving parts.
* May feed machine by hand when carding asbestos fiber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cleans and disentangles fur fibers used in making felt hats. Responsibilities include:
* Dumps fur into hopper of machine.
* Starts machine that forces fibers through sections (chambers) containing air blowers and toothed rollers that clean and disentangle fibers.
* Feels and examines fibers to determine conformance to quality standards and to detect presence of debris, such as sawdust and particles of pelt, requiring additional passes through machine.
* Cleans machine and removes debris, using brush, shovel, and compressed-air hose.
* May weigh and bag specified amounts of fibers.
* May be designated according to number of sections in fur-blowing unit as eight-section blower; six-section blower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that reduces rags and yarn waste to fiber for reuse. Responsibilities include:
* Feeds armfuls of waste into hopper of automatic feeder or opens and closes gates of blower pipes or conveyors when waste feeds from other machines.
* Starts machine and wraps end of garnetted web around takeup roller to form lap ii or threads end of condensed web through coiler head to form sliver.
* Observes garnetting to detect clogged rollers or breaks in web.
* Pieces up breaks in web and disentangles clogged rollers by hand.
* Doffs laps or cans of garnetted material from delivery end of machine.
* Weighs laps or cans of material and records weight on production records.
* May tend garnett machine equipped with pneumatic conveyors that blow stock into storage bins or subsequent machine hoppers.
* May tend picking machine in tandem with garnett machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that garnetts waste yarn and fibers and compresses garnetted fibers into rolls of felt, batting, or padding. Responsibilities include:
* Moves weight on lever of automatic feeder to control amount of waste material fed into machine and weight of product produced.
* Spaces knives on either side of delivery end of machine according to width specified for rolls.
* Turns handwheel to increase or decrease space between compressor roller according to thickness specified for product.
* Threads end of garnetted material through folding device that spreads layers of material on delivery table preparatory to winding web into rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that draws out and combines wool, synthetic, or blended sliver and aligns fibers preparatory to further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Places balls of sliver on holders or positions cans of sliver at feeding end of machine.
* Threads sliver through guides, gathering eye, rollers, and under fallers. Starts machine and guides sliver into receiving can, or wraps end around spindle that winds it into ball.
* Observes operation of machine to detect breaks and pieces up ends together by hand.
* Replaces exhausted supply cans or balls of sliver.
* Doffs can or balls of processed sliver.
* May weigh cans or balls of sliver and record weight.
* May weigh sample of sliver to determine quality of sliver produced by machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends series of machines in tandem that open, clean, fluff, and mix compressed cotton or synthetic fibers preparatory to picking process. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machines and feeds layers of fibers from several bales into machine hoppers to produce uniform blend.
* Observes processing of fibers and signal lights to detect clogged beaters.
* Stops machines and pulls fibers from clogged beaters.
* Cleans and oils machines.
* May weigh fibers preparatory to feeding machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of picker machines that break up and clean cotton or synthetic fibers, form them into lap ii, and wind lap into rolls. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and pulls cord to open gate of hopper through which cotton tufts feed onto conveyor of machine or hand feeds cotton tufts onto conveyor.
* Moves levers to regulate weight, length of lap, and speed of machine.
* Observes and regulates speed of conveyor as conveyor feeds machine to prevent jamming.
* Inserts metal bar in lap arbor of automatic winding mechanism that winds and ejects lap rolls of specified size.
* Turns end of lap around lap forming bar by hand, when necessary.
* Lifts roll of lap from machine, weighs roll of lap, records weight, places roll on portable rack, and removes pin around which lap was wound.
* Marks lap to identify fiber type, using specified chalk.
* Cleans and oils machine.
* May tend machines that open, clean, fluff, and mix cotton or synthetic fibers prior to picking process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that fluffs and cleans new and used materials, such as cotton, kapok, and sisal used in pads, cushions, and mattresses, performing any combination of following tasks. Responsibilities include:
* Moves guide on machine to direct cleaned material into storage bins or garnett machine. Opens bales of material, such as cotton and sisal, using wirecutter and knife.
* Pulls bales apart, starts machine, and feeds specified grades of material into machine hopper.
* May weigh specified amounts of material according to grades, using platform scales.
* May tie mattress cover to filling spout and move guide to direct material into it.
* May be designated according to type of material picked as cotton picker; excelsior picker; fiber picker; sisal picker; tow picker.
* May tend machine that produces rolls of felt from fluffed and cleaned fiber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends picking machine that opens or shreds and fluffs raw or used materials, such as wool, kapok, foam rubber, or hair to facilitate further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts open bales of raw materials.
* Starts machine and deposits handfuls of raw material on feeding apron that conveys material into picking or shredding rollers.
* Observes machine to detect clogged rollers.
* Stops machine, and strips fiber from rollers, using knife, scissors, or hands.
* May spray raw material with oil emulsion.
* May be designated according to material processed as hair-picking-machine operator; tow-picker operator; wool-picker operator.
Industry:Professional careers
