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A professional who feeds machine that shapes felt tips for stencil marking pens. Responsibilities include:
* Fills hopper of machine with felt tips and presses switch to start machine that automatically shapes sides and bevels or rounds end of tips for marking pens.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds fiber material into machine that cuts material into rugs of specified sizes. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes handtruck or dolly loaded with rug material to cutting table.
* Places roll in rack on cutting table.
* Inserts end of material under pressure roll.
* Smooths, pulls, and squares material on cutting table.
* Rolls cut rugs on tubes and places rugs on truck.
* Pushes trucks to next department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with inserting tufts or loops of yarn through backing material to produce tufted articles, such as carpets and rugs, without interlacing or interlocking yarn as accomplished in weaving, knitting, and sewing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tufting, finishing, inspecting, and mending carpets and rugs. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes work orders to determine need for supplies and sequence of operation.
* Coordinates flow of materials to winding, tufting, finishing, and inspecting areas.
* Trains workers in operation and adjustment of machines and equipment.
* Examines carpets and rugs during processing to verify conformance to specifications and to detect defects.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to department supervised as broadloom supervisor; finishing supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mounts backing material (loosely woven fabric or burlap) on frame to facilitate tufting. Responsibilities include:
* Hooks specified backing over frame spikes and clamps metal side bars onto frame to secure material in position for tufting.
* Moves backing on frame periodically to facilitate completion of tufting process.
* Measures and marks carpet dimensions on backing, using tape measure and chalk-line reel.
* May stencil designs on sample backing, using brush and lamp black solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to tuft flowered design on articles. Responsibilities include:
* Places yarn packages on spindles and draws ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes.
* Presses knee lever to raise hoop-shaped presser foot, positions material on movable portion of machine bed, and lowers presser foot to hold material taut.
* Starts machine and turns machine bed to rotate material beneath needles that automatically tuft flower design on material.
* Observes tufting to detect defects, such as broken yarn and needles.
* Rethreads machine or replaces damaged needles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to tuft flowered design on articles. Responsibilities include:
* Places yarn packages on spindles and draws ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes.
* Presses knee lever to raise hoop-shaped presser foot, positions material on movable portion of machine bed, and lowers presser foot to hold material taut.
* Starts machine and turns machine bed to rotate material beneath needles that automatically tuft flower design on material.
* Observes tufting to detect defects, such as broken yarn and needles.
* Rethreads machine or replaces damaged needles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to tuft designs on articles, such as rugs and bedspreads. Responsibilities include:
* Places yarn packages on spindles and draws ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes.
* Depresses pedal to activate tufting mechanism and guides material under tufting needles, following design specifications.
* Observes tufting to detect defects, such as broken yarn and needles.
* Rethreads machine or replaces damaged needles.
* Rethreads machine needle with specified color of yarn to tuft multicolor design.
* Workers who tend machines that tuft continuous lengths of cloth are classified under tufting-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tufts yarn through backing material (loosely woven fabric or burlap) to fabricate carpets and rugs, using portable, electric-powered hooking device. Responsibilities include:
* Presses trigger of device to start reciprocating action of needle that punches yarn through material to form pile on rug surface.
* Guides device along stenciled outline on backing material to tuft design in rug according to specifications.
* Changes yarn color as specified by pattern.
* May insert missing tufts in rugs.
* May tuft rugs by hand, using hooked needle, and be designated hand rug hooker.
* When tufting samples, is known as sample maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tufts pads and mattresses with metal pins, using press. Responsibilities include:
* Sets pins upright in holders in press bed.
* Lays pad in place over tops of pins and sets cover form over pad in alignment with pins.
* Starts motor and pushes lever to press cover form over pad and force pins through pad.
* Clamps cover form to press bed with hand clamps and raises press head from form.
* Slips metal washers over projecting ends of pins and spreads and flattens ends of pins over washers, using handtools.
* Releases clamps and lifts pad from form and press when tufting is complete.
Industry:Professional careers
