- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tends battery of machines that braid yarn into flat or tubular narrow fabrics. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine according to work ticket and threads yarn through guides, tensions, braiding point (round or elliptical hole), and tension rollers.
* Starts machine and laps end around takeup roll or places end into receiving can.
* Observes braiding to detect breaks in yarn and ties or glues broken yarn ends.
* Doffs full rolls or cans of braided material from machine.
* May braid jacket around articles, such as rope or wire.
* May tend yarn rewinding machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that braid yarn into flat or tubular narrow fabrics. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine according to work ticket and threads yarn through guides, tensions, braiding point (round or elliptical hole), and tension rollers.
* Starts machine and laps end around takeup roll or places end into receiving can.
* Observes braiding to detect breaks in yarn and ties or glues broken yarn ends.
* Doffs full rolls or cans of braided material from machine.
* May braid jacket around articles, such as rope or wire.
* May tend yarn rewinding machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who changes pattern chain on jacquard loom to alter weave design and replaces worn parts. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts lacing connecting first and last cards of pattern chain on loom.
* Lifts pattern chain from holder brackets onto handtruck and positions new pattern chain in holder.
* Positions pattern chain over card cylinder of jacquard head and ties end cards together to form endless chain.
* Examines pattern chains for worn cards or lacing.
* Cuts lacing from cards and ties in duplicate cards or new cord.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically laces jacquard pattern cards with cord to form pattern chain for use on jacquard loom: stacks punched pattern cards in sequence or blank cards in automatic feed mechanism or places cards individually on feed belt.
* Observes machine operation to ensure that cards are spaced evenly and fed singly according to numerical sequence into lacing mechanism.
* Replenishes spools of lacing cord.
* May tend machine that duplicates sets of cards.
* May number cards according to prescribed sequence, using pencil or hand-numbering device.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically laces jacquard pattern cards with cord to form pattern chain for use on jacquard loom: stacks punched pattern cards in sequence or blank cards in automatic feed mechanism or places cards individually on feed belt.
* Observes machine operation to ensure that cards are spaced evenly and fed singly according to numerical sequence into lacing mechanism.
* Replenishes spools of lacing cord.
* May tend machine that duplicates sets of cards.
* May number cards according to prescribed sequence, using pencil or hand-numbering device.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists drawing-in-machine tender to tend drawing-in machine. Responsibilities include:
* Positions warp beam on brackets of stand, using chain hoist, and hangs harness frames in specified order on arms of stand.
* Attaches reed and drop wires to stand, using handtools.
* Threads heddles eyes with keys (slender wires) that control order in which machine will draw in warp threads.
* Pushes stand into frame of machine.
* Removes drawn warp assembly from setup stand and places assembly on handtruck, using chain hoist.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that duplicates sets of pattern cards used to control weaving operations of jacquard loom: places set of blank cards and set of punched cards into mechanisms that simultaneously feed cards under repeating cylinder where reeler rods locate holes on punched card and activate corresponding punches that punch duplicate holes in blank card.
* Observes operation of machine to verify accuracy of punching and removes bent or jammed cards.
* May operate lacing machine to tie punched cards into chain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that duplicates sets of pattern cards used to control weaving operations of jacquard loom: places set of blank cards and set of punched cards into mechanisms that simultaneously feed cards under repeating cylinder where reeler rods locate holes on punched card and activate corresponding punches that punch duplicate holes in blank card.
* Observes operation of machine to verify accuracy of punching and removes bent or jammed cards.
* May operate lacing machine to tie punched cards into chain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that threads axminster loom frames with pile yarn for weaving process. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts loom frame and loom spools in machine brackets and aligns frame tubes with machine needle guides.
* Inserts clamp in holder to lay yarn parallel in guides.
* Moves lever and presses pedal to lower lock bar and activate needle bar to draw yarn ends through guides and tubes.
* Examines frame for missed or crossed yarns.
* Corrects faulty threading, using reed hook. Presses lever and button to activate blowers and rotary blade that trims protruding yarn ends from frame tubes.
* Loads completed assembly onto handtruck for removal to weaving area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends portable or stationary automatic warp-tying-in machine that ties warp ends from full warp beam to warp in loom in order to resume weaving without repeating drawing-in process. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order or confers with supervisor to determine looms needing warp-tying-in process.
* Divides, combs out, straightens, and applies warp softener to ends of warp from full beam and from exhausted beam, and clamps ends in position in tier.
* Presses button or turns crank to start tying mechanism.
* Observes and controls tying-in process as machine picks up corresponding strands from warp beam and from loom beam, ties strands together, and cuts off excess yarn above knot.
* Stops machine, corrects misalignment of warp yarn, and releases joined strands from machine.
* Manually ties ends not tied by machine.
* May pull warp through drop wires, harnesses, and reed so knots will not jam assembly and break when loom is started.
* May repair tying machine.
* May doff exhausted warp beams and position full beams prior to warp-tying-in process, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
