- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who sets up and maintains battery of automatic machines that make hemp rope. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and aligns dies and gears to produce specified type and size rope, using handtools.
* Turns setscrews to adjust machines.
* May operate and adjust rope-laying machine to make rope.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects yarn texturing machines and packages of textured yarn to appraise quality of texturing process. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects doff yarn to ensure processing of yarn by texturing machines meets company performance standards.
* Reads temperature from gauges on thermal unit of texturing machines, records number of malfunctioning thermal units, and calibrates temperature gauges, using thermometer.
* Monitors spindle speed on texturing machines, using strobe tester, and notifies machine fixer or supervisor, winding and twisting of malfunctioning spindle speed.
* Transports defective yarn package to yarn cleaner for salvaging of yarn.
* Fabricates needles used by yarn-texturing-machine operator i, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds several strands of fiberglass sliver into a single strand of roving. Responsibilities include:
* Gathers strands of fiberglass sliver from creels to form roving, threads roving through guides, and attaches roving to takeup package or laps roving around spindle of winder to form coreless package.
* Starts machine and observes winding units to detect broken ends and variations in number of ends being wound into roving.
* Ties broken ends and notifies creeler to increase or decrease ends according to specifications.
* Observes signal light to determine when package is full.
* Doffs full packages from machine and packs roving into shipping containers.
* Weighs roving and records weight on shipping list and production records.
* Pastes label on container and seals container, using gummed tape.
* Places containers onto pallet or conveyor.
* May creel machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds yarn from several section beams i simultaneously onto single loom beam preparatory to weaving. Responsibilities include:
* Positions section beams on creel with aid of beamer helper, using chain hoist.
* Lays individual yarn ends from each section beam between dents of reed and teeth of expansion comb, following leases in section warps.
* Tapes yarn ends to loom beam or ties groups of yarn ends into knots and inserts knots into slots of loom beam.
* Turns knob to set yardage clock as specified.
* Starts machine and observes yarn to detect slubs, breaks, and tangles.
* Removes slubs with scissors, straightens tangles, and ties broken yarn ends with fingers.
* Inserts lease string in warp yarn and secures yarn ends with tape.
* Doffs full loom beam onto handtruck and replaces beam with empty beam with aid of beamer helper, using chain hoist.
* Records style number, number of yarn breaks, machine stops, and yardage beamed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds thread onto bobbins for use on sole-stitching machines. Responsibilities include:
* Places bobbins on spindle and inserts spindle into bobbin-winding machine.
* Wraps thread around first bobbin.
* Pushes lever to start machine.
* Holds spindle in place with hand, allows spring to move spindle, and positions next bobbin for winding.
* Cuts thread between bobbins, using knife.
* Removes spindle from machine and bobbins from spindle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that singes lint and fuzz from yarn and winds yarn onto bobbins or cones: places yarn packages on spindles and threads yarn through guides, tension device, slub catcher, heating unit, and grooves of traverse roller.
* Inserts end of yarn in takeup cone or bobbin and places cone on spindle.
* Pulls switches to start machine, exhaust fans, and burners.
* Pieces up yarn breaks.
* Doffs full cones or bobbins and places yarn in handtruck.
* Records production on work ticket.
* Cleans rails and burners of machine, using brush, airhose, and cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to wind yarn from packages onto reel and from reel onto loom beams to prepare multiple colored warps for weaving. Responsibilities include:
* Moves portable reel into position in front of creel and draws yarn from packages on creel, according to specified pattern.
* Ties yarn ends into loop and places loop over hook on reel to secure ends for winding.
* Sets yardage meter to stop machine when specified yardage for section is wound on reel.
* Inserts lease strings in wound section to keep threads in position for weaving.
* Cuts yarn, using scissors, and places ends under section wound to prevent raveling.
* Moves reel to front of creel to facilitate winding of additional sections of yarn.
* Positions loom beam on brackets, using hoist, and secures ends from all sections onto beam.
* Pulls lever to reverse reel and pushes button to start yarn winding onto beam.
* Doffs full loom beam, using hoist.
* Turns valves to fill size box and to regulate temperature in drying cabinet when machine is equipped with slashing attachment.
* May creel machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates track-mounted machine in ropewalk to lay rope-fiber strands into heavy line, such as marine hawser and towline. Responsibilities include:
* Lays strands on guide arms parallel to track.
* Anchors ends of strands to stationary fixture at end of ropewalk.
* Secures other end of strands in self-propelled machine at opposite end of ropewalk that lays strands into rope and coils rope onto reel as it moves along track.
* Moves levers to start machine and to produce specified degree of hardness in rope.
* Binds ends of finished rope to prevent raveling and removes full reel, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to wind yarn from short spools onto longer spools in specified color arrangement to prepare yarn for weaving into rugs. Responsibilities include:
* Positions spools of yarn on creel as specified by pattern chart.
* Threads ends of yarn through reeds, tension devices, and guides, as specified by pattern chart.
* Adjusts tension on thread.
* Clamps ends to takeup (long) spool.
* Starts machine and observes winding for yarn tangles and breaks.
* Pieces up broken ends.
* Stops machine when specified amount of yarn has been wound, cuts yarn with cutting blade, places clamp onto spool to hold yarn in place, and replaces spool with empty one.
* May be designated according to machine for which yarn is prepared as six-quarter machine rug setter(carpet & rug); three-quarter machine rug setter.
* May operate machine to wind yarn onto loom beams and be designated velvet rug setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to wind yarn from short spools onto longer spools in specified color arrangement to prepare yarn for weaving into rugs. Responsibilities include:
* Positions spools of yarn on creel as specified by pattern chart.
* Threads ends of yarn through reeds, tension devices, and guides, as specified by pattern chart.
* Adjusts tension on thread.
* Clamps ends to takeup (long) spool.
* Starts machine and observes winding for yarn tangles and breaks.
* Pieces up broken ends.
* Stops machine when specified amount of yarn has been wound, cuts yarn with cutting blade, places clamp onto spool to hold yarn in place, and replaces spool with empty one.
* May be designated according to machine for which yarn is prepared as six-quarter machine rug setter(carpet & rug); three-quarter machine rug setter.
* May operate machine to wind yarn onto loom beams and be designated velvet rug setter.
Industry:Professional careers
