- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends automatic sewing machine that fabricates novelty curtains. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts rolls of ruffle material on machine holders and threads material through machine guides and under sewing mechanisms.
* Selects thread according to curtain color and threads machine.
* Positions curtain panel under sewing mechanisms and depresses pedal that gathers and stitches ruffles to panel and hems curtain top to form rod insert.
* Observes sewing to detect defective stitching and reports machine malfunctions.
* Works as member of three person team to fabricate curtains.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that fabricates decorative bows from ribbons. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews to adjust machine according to bow type and size, fills machine hopper with staples.
* Places roll of ribbon on spindle and draws ribbon through machine guides and rollers.
* Turns valve to activate pneumatic bow ejection device.
* Presses button to start machine that forms, staples, and ejects bows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends forming machine that folds, gathers, and presses cloth into groove of lacing to produce buffing wheels. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts roll of cloth on holder or draws end from box and threads it through guides and over steam pipes.
* Removes front section of winding drum, places lacing on rod in center of rear section, and positions front section on rod at specified distance from rear section.
* Pulls cloth over drum and centers it over space between drum sections.
* Secures cloth edges to pins set across drum.
* Turns valve to admit steam to pipes to soften material.
* Turns crank to wind specified amount of cloth around drum.
* Cuts cloth, using hand shears, and pushes drum between jaws of machine.
* Presses button to activate jaws that fold and gather cloth into space between drums and press gathered edge between points of lacings.
* Removes laced buffing material when pressing cycle is complete.
* Turns dial to control length of pressing cycle, according to style of buffing wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects finished or unfinished cloth for weaving or finishing defects, using power-driven examining frame. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls fabric over rollers, down over inspection board, and wraps cloth end around takeup beam or tube, or positions supply truck under swing-folding attachment. Sets yardage clock at zero and presses button or pedal that starts movement of cloth over inspection board.
* Scans cloth for defects, such as grease spots, slubs, mispicks, uneven selvages, and irregularities in color.
* Marks defects with chalk, thread, or adhesive sticker.
* Records information, such as defects, cloth style, and yardage inspected.
* May correct reparable defects, such as soils, slubs, or loose ends, using steel pick, scissors, knife, or cleaning solution.
* May cut irreparable defects from cloth, using scissors, and sew cloth ends together, using needle and thread or sewing machine.
* May mount and doff rolls of cloth, using hoist.
* May grade cloth according to quality, using written standards.
* May cut or tear strip from end of cloth for sample.
* May count number of picks per inch, using pick counter.
* May feel cloth to compare texture with that of sample.
* When reexamining cloth to verify defects marked by other workers, is designated rechecker.
* May be designated according to fabric examined as asbestos-cloth inspector; base-cloth inspector; greige-goods examiner; knitted-cloth examiner; lace inspector.
* May be designated: finished-cloth examiner; coated fabrics inspector; silk examiner; tire-fabric inspector; woolens examiner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that spreads cloth from rope to open form and reels it preparatory to drying or other processing. Responsibilities include:
* Positions drum of roped cloth in front of machine.
* Draws end of cloth from top of drum and ties or stitches end of cloth to cloth in machine.
* Starts machine and turns drum by hand to ensure that cloth emerges from drum and winds untwisted onto reel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds cloth from one form to another to facilitate further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Threads cloth from supply truck, bale, or roll through guides and rollers to takeup roll, tube, or rod, or sews cloth to end of leader in machine, using sewing machine.
* Turns handwheel to adjust width guides.
* Starts machine and observes cloth to detect irregular seams and torn selvages.
* Pushes lever to control tension on cloth and speed of machine.
* Cuts out flaws and combines several cuts of cloth to form one roll, sewing ends with portable sewing machine.
* Records yardage clock reading on order ticket.
* Removes full rolls from machine onto handtruck by hand or using hoist.
* May wrap cloth roll for storage or shipping.
* May be designated according to process for which cloth is being wound as boiling-off winder; type of material wound as carpet winder; or type of winding machine used as reeling-and-tubing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that folds (lengthwise) and winds cloth around cardboard center or tube for shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of finished cloth onto brackets of machine, and threads end through guide rollers and over triangular folding device, or joins ends to form continuous lengths, using sewing machine.
* Places cardboard center or tube on winding spindles and starts cloth around cardboard center or tube.
* Starts machine and pulls uneven selvages into alignment as cloth is folded and wound.
* Turns handwheel to adjust folding attachment.
* Cuts out seams and defects marked by cloth examiner, machine, using scissors or knife.
* Doffs full rolls when specified yardage has been wound.
* Feeds paper measuring tape into roll when winding cloth that stretches.
* May tend machine fed directly from another machine.
* May paste sticker showing yardage on outside of each bolt.
* May fold special lots of cloth by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that grooves balls of twine. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts wooden peg through ball of polished twine and places peg with ball into machine.
* Starts machine and holds end of peg while machine presses groove around ball.
* Stops machine and removes ball.
* Unwinds length of twine and ties twine around groove in ball to bind twine.
* Tucks end of twine under binder, using grooved knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically knots and cuts cordage to form drawstrings for laundry bags. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts spool of cordage on spindle and threads cordage through knotting and cutting mechanisms.
* Presses button to start machine that knots and cuts cordage into specified lengths.
* Hangs drawstrings on rack for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that aligns drop-wires used on loom harnesses. Responsibilities include:
* Loads drop wires in machine chutes.
* Turns handwheel to secure electrostatic bar in machine bed.
* Starts machine and observes operation for clogs.
* Clears jams, using screwdriver.
* Removes bar and wires from machine and replaces damaged wires.
* Slides metal strip through drop wire eyelets to facilitate attachment to loom harness.
Industry:Professional careers
