- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who inspects samples of surgical hose, panty hose, stockings, leotards, and socks of specified styles, or samples previously examined by pairers, to ensure that specifications are met.
* Records findings on each sample, noting quantity and types of defects found and whether sample met specifications.
* May train and supervise pairers.
* May inform supervisors and workers responsible for defective samples.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with interlacing a strand of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops to make a fabric or a knitted product other than hosiery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in knitting fabrics, shaped garments, and other articles from yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Schedules changes in machine set up to produce knitted fabric, garment, or article according to production schedules and issues instructions to knitting-machine fixer.
* Verifies machine setup and directs repair and adjustment of malfunctioning machines.
* Directs training of workers in setup and operation of machines and equipment.
* Examines knitted fabric, garment, or article produced to detect variations from standards.
* May be designated according to department supervised as inspecting supervisor; looping supervisor ii; mending supervisor ii.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who builds metal chains, consisting of multisize pattern plates, or installs pattern tapes that control operation of jacquard loom and link-and-link flat knitting machines and sets up machines to produce specified design in knitted fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains specifications for new knitting pattern from supervisor.
* Studies number, type, and arrangement of stitches in sample and determines arrangement of pattern plates on chains, employing knowledge of machine operation.
* Connects plates to form chain.
* Studies sample to determine which perforations in pattern plates are to be covered to produce specified knit and informs jacquard-plate maker.
* Installs chains and pattern plates in machine and makes trial run to determine if knitting meets specifications.
* May make minor repairs to knitting machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who builds metal chains, consisting of multisize pattern plates, or installs pattern tapes that control operation of jacquard loom and link-and-link flat knitting machines and sets up machines to produce specified design in knitted fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains specifications for new knitting pattern from supervisor.
* Studies number, type, and arrangement of stitches in sample and determines arrangement of pattern plates on chains, employing knowledge of machine operation.
* Connects plates to form chain.
* Studies sample to determine which perforations in pattern plates are to be covered to produce specified knit and informs jacquard-plate maker.
* Installs chains and pattern plates in machine and makes trial run to determine if knitting meets specifications.
* May make minor repairs to knitting machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates battery of automatic, link-type (jacquard) knitting machines to knit garments of specified pattern and design. Responsibilities include:
* Places chains that control operation of machine on machine sprockets.
* Places cones of yarn on machine spindles and threads end of yarn through machine guides, tension devices, and needle eyes.
* Turns screws to set carrier stops and adjust stroke of yarn carrier.
* Pushes lever to separate needle plates of machine and hooks stitches of knitted piece of fabric onto needles to serve as base for knitting.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect defective knitting.
* Ties ends of broken yarn with weaver's knot.
* Separates needle plates and removes finished fabric from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who covers designated perforations of metal pattern plates with metal pieces (snappers) to control operation on needles in automatic knitting machines. Responsibilities include:
* Selects and links together specified number of pattern plates or cards to form continuous chain.
* Arranges snappers over perforations designated by knitter mechanic.
* Aids knitter mechanic to install plates in machine and starts machine for trial run to determine if plates have been prepared as specified.
* May perforate blank pattern strips to correspond to needle-bed spacing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who knits fabric from silk and elastic thread for use in surgical supports, using hand-and-foot-operated knitting machine. Responsibilities include:
* Marks width measurements of fabric to be knitted and adjusts machine.
* Places cones of silk and elastic thread on spindles, and draws thread through machine guides and between needles.
* Moves levers to activate machine and knit fabric.
* Depresses pedal of elastic thread-carrier to lay elastic thread between stitches.
* Passes elastic thread through each end stitch of knitted fabric and knots thread to prevent raveling, using darning needle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends knitting machine that increases and decreases stitches at designated places to knit shaped garment parts onto ribbed cuffs or waist bands. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine and threads yarn through guides, stop-motion devices, and yarn carriers, using hook.
* Positions transfer bar containing several ribbed parts over needle bed of machine, pushes stitches from transfer points onto machine needles and removes transfer bar.
* Pulls one ribbed part up to needle eyes and attaches outer edge of rib to hooked bar of takeup roll. Starts machine that automatically increases stitches to knit garment part.
* Turns handle or presses pedal, when machine automatically stops, to activate narrowing fingers that cause needles to decrease stitches to shape portions, such as shoulders and neck.
* Replaces defective needles, using pliers.
* Notifies knitting-machine fixer of machine malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends knitting machine that increases and decreases stitches at designated places to knit shaped garment parts onto ribbed cuffs or waist bands. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine and threads yarn through guides, stop-motion devices, and yarn carriers, using hook.
* Positions transfer bar containing several ribbed parts over needle bed of machine, pushes stitches from transfer points onto machine needles and removes transfer bar.
* Pulls one ribbed part up to needle eyes and attaches outer edge of rib to hooked bar of takeup roll. Starts machine that automatically increases stitches to knit garment part.
* Turns handle or presses pedal, when machine automatically stops, to activate narrowing fingers that cause needles to decrease stitches to shape portions, such as shoulders and neck.
* Replaces defective needles, using pliers.
* Notifies knitting-machine fixer of machine malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
