- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who feeds and off bears vacuum equipment that removes loose threads from shirts.
* Inserts collar of shirt in slot of conveyor belt that conveys shirt through cabinet.
* Removes shirts from conveyor.
* Folds and stacks shirts in handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in weaving, spinning, carding, and finishing departments of woolen mill. Responsibilities include:
* Threads or laps cloth between or over rolls of processing equipment, such as washers, dryers, and dye vats.
* Cuts tacking stitch that secures top and bottom layers of folded cloth with scissors and pulls out threads.
* Transports wool, yarn, and cloth between operations and departments, using handtruck or hoist.
* Replaces empty spools with full spools of roving on creel of roving or spinning machines.
* Cleans machines and floor area of grease, dirt, and lint, using air and vacuum hose, broom, and rags.
* May be designated according to task performed as tacking-stitch remover.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds or off bears machine that chops waste thread into lengths for use in making wiping rags. Responsibilities include:
* Deposits handfuls of loose thread on belt that conveys material to cutting blades.
* Removes tangles from blades, using scissors or knife.
* May pack material into containers preparatory to baling.
* May feed or off bear machine equipped with mechanism that compresses waste into mats following cutting operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes rolls of cloth from looms or knitting machines and trucks cloth to storage. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls lever or presses button to stop machine when roll has sufficient yardage as indicated by yardage clock, mark on cloth, or color-coded card flag.
* Turns handle to lower roll of cloth, cuts cloth, using scissors, and places cloth roll on handtruck.
* Places empty takeup beam on bracket of machine, attaches cloth to beam, and restarts machine.
* Writes identifying information, such as lot and style number, on ticket and attaches ticket to cloth roll.
* Trucks cloth to storage or inspection department.
* May weigh and keep record of cloth beams doffed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who salvages sacks and bagging used as covering for raw stock fiber. Responsibilities include:
* Removes adhering stock fibers from sacks and bagging by hand.
* Places bagging in sacks or folds and stacks bagging for reuse.
* May straighten and place metal tie bands in bundles.
* May dip tie bands in paint for reuse.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who salvages sacks and bagging used as covering for raw stock fiber. Responsibilities include:
* Removes adhering stock fibers from sacks and bagging by hand.
* Places bagging in sacks or folds and stacks bagging for reuse.
* May straighten and place metal tie bands in bundles.
* May dip tie bands in paint for reuse.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes unused yarn or roving from bobbins, cones, quills, or spools, using knife and removing yarn with fingers.
* Separates and places waste yarn in containers according to type.
* May stack spools in storage racks for reuse.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts binding cord from bundles of hemp fiber, using knife.
* Separates bundle and places fibers on conveyor or table to facilitate feeding operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects narrow woven fabrics, such as labels, ribbon, and tape, to detect defective weaving, color variations, and damaged or soiled fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts out defective sections, using hand shears.
* Ties cut ends together, splices ends with adhesive tape, or secures ends of roll with metal pins, using hammer.
* May operate sewing machine to sew cut ends together.
* May measure width of fabric with ruler or guide to determine conformance with standards.
* May tend winding device (blocker) to wind fabric into rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who winds pile fabric onto frames (reel) to prevent crushing of pile during storage or shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Places frame on winding brackets of worktable.
* Turns frame by hand and catches cloth selvages on hooks of frame, spacing cloth around frame in layers.
* Bolts precut wooden slats to outside of frame, using wrench.
* Places frame of cloth in box and trucks box to storage area.
* Works as member of team to frame cloth.
Industry:Professional careers
