- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends machines that draw out and combine four to six laps ii into one of uniform weight and texture preparatory to combing. Responsibilities include:
* Places rolls of lap on feed rolls of machine.
* Threads ends through stop-motion device and rollers, and around takeup spool, or presses end to end of preceding lap.
* Patrols machines to detect exhausted ends and to observe lights indicating machine stoppage caused by lap break.
* Pieces up broken ends and restarts machine.
* Turns handle to release roll for doffing.
* Removes lap from machine and replaces with empty takeup spool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that fluffs and combines silk fibers. Responsibilities include:
* Weighs cleaned, raw silk to separate it into small bunches of specified weight.
* Starts machine and feeds bunches of silk between machine rollers that fluff and combine bunches.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines which combine strands of sliver (usually 12 or more) into lap ii and winds sliver into rolls. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls cans of sliver to creeling position.
* Threads ends of sliver through guides, stop-motion device, and rolls, and onto takeup pin, or attaches end to preceding end by overlapping and twisting sliver with fingers.
* Patrols machine area to detect exhausted ends and observe lights indicating machine stoppage caused by sliver break.
* Pieces up broken ends.
* Removes lap and replaces empty pins.
* May depress pedal to raise roll of lap for doffing or loosen holders by hand.
* May tend combers, ribbon lappers, or drawing frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends slubber machines that draw out and loosely twist sliver into roving to strengthen sliver for subsequent drawing and twisting operations. Responsibilities include:
* Fastens ends of sliver from full cans to preceding ends by overlapping and twisting ends with fingers, or threads sliver over guide, through rolls and flyers, and onto bobbins.
* Patrols machines to detect exhausted ends and to observe signal lights indicating machine stoppage caused by sliver breaks.
* Pieces up broken ends by threading sliver through rollers and flyer and twisting sliver to end on bobbin.
* Doffs bobbin of roving, placing flyers on top of frame and roving in box truck.
* Sets empty bobbins on spindles, winds end of roving around bobbins, and replaces flyers.
* Brushes lint and dust from rollers and oils machine.
* May mark spools of roving with colored chalk to denote weight and texture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts tow, sliver, or waste fibers into staple lengths preparatory to blending and subsequent processing into yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Places cans of sliver or bales of raw stock at feed-end of machine.
* Cuts bale bands, using hand snips.
* Places loose fiber on belt which conveys fiber to cutting blades or pulls ends of sliver or tow from cans and guides them into feed rolls at cutter.
* Examines fiber falling from cutter to detect fusing of fibers due to dull cutting blades.
* Measures cut fiber with ruler to verify length.
* Notifies machine fixer when cut fiber does not meet specifications.
* May stock from several bales to blend fibers.
* May sort loose stock by size and color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends feed end of mat-making range that cuts fiberglass sliver into staple lengths and binds staple lengths together to form continuous sheets of fiberglass insulation material. Responsibilities include:
* Scoops powdered binder from barrel into hopper of binder sprayer.
* Gathers specified number of sliver ends from creel and threads ends through guides and rollers into staple cutting units.
* Observes flow of sliver from creel through staple cutters to verify number of ends being fed into cutters and to detect jam-up of sliver in cutters.
* Stops cutter and disentangles jam-up, using knife.
* Drops marker onto conveyor, signifying beginning and end of defective mat.
* Increases or decreases number of sliver ends fed into cutters as directed by mat-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that stretch synthetic fibers in sliver or tow form to control elasticity and prevent uneven stretching during subsequent processing. Responsibilities include:
* Turns knob to set air pressure control on stretch rolls according to amount of stretch specified.
* Guides sliver into feed rolls so that it passes over heating element, between stretch rolls, and drops into receiving can.
* Pieces up broken sliver and replaces empty cans.
* Doffs and weighs cans of stretched sliver.
* May tend stretch box with crimping and steam-setting attachments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that opens, cleans, fluffs, and reduces soft waste yarn, sliver, and roving to fiber for reuse. Responsibilities include:
* Spreads armfuls of waste material on feeder apron of machine.
* Starts machine, and wraps web of processed material around takeup roller or positions truck beneath delivery apron of machine.
* Observes processing of waste to detect clogged rollers and disentangles rollers by hand.
* Doffs, laps, or trucks material from delivery end of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that comb lap ii or sliver to remove short fibers, neps, and dirt and to straighten and align fibers. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts lap onto holders or positions cans of sliver at rear of machine.
* Threads lap or sliver between feeder rollers, combing and drawing rollers, through gathering eyes, coiler head, and into cans.
* Pieces up fresh lap or sliver to end of preceding one.
* Pieces up breaks, and replaces cans of sliver or rolls of lap.
* Removes full cans of processed sliver from coiler head and pushes cans to designated area to await further processing.
* Observes signal lights to detect sliver breaks, machine malfunctions, and exhausting cans of unprocessed sliver.
* Pulls lap-ups of fibers from rollers, using hook.
* May empty bin of waste materials combed out of fibers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who doffs and transfers sliver cans among carding, drawing, and slubbing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes or drags full sliver cans from carding to drawing, and from drawing to slubbing machines to maintain workflow.
* Removes empty cans from drawing and slubbing machines and places them in position for reuse at carding machines.
* May sweep work area or clean machines.
* May be designated according to machine area worked as card doffer.
Industry:Professional careers
