- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who creels looms, twisters, warpers, tufting, or other textile machines to change style of yarn or to replace exhausted yarn packages. Responsibilities include:
* Places yarn packages on spindle of creel, according to supervisor's instructions, color-coded spools, or number on yarn packages.
* Threads yarn through eyelet plate (yarn guides) or ties yarn ends to ends of yarn from preceding package to maintain continuous yarn supply.
* Cuts yarn ends from knots, using scissors, and discards yarn ends in waste container to prevent entanglement of yarn while moving through creel.
* Removes old yarn from machines before changing to different size or type of yarn.
* Cleans dust and lint from creel.
* May repair yarn breaks in creel.
* May replace yarn packages or spools when faulty yarn appears.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and rebuilds drop wire assemblies. Responsibilities include:
* Cleans drop wires with solvent, compressed air, and brushes.
* Replaces defective drop wires and adds or removes drop wires in assembly, according to specifications.
* May clean harness frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and rebuilds drop wire assemblies. Responsibilities include:
* Cleans drop wires with solvent, compressed air, and brushes.
* Replaces defective drop wires and adds or removes drop wires in assembly, according to specifications.
* May clean harness frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes tubes from packages of baked fiberglass sliver and locates inside end of coreless package.
* Unravels portion of sliver to verify location of end and cuts raveled sliver, using scissors, or breaks sliver by hand.
* May position coreless packages in creels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who unwinds tubes of fiberglass sliver rejected by twister tender to remove short lengths and find end of continuous strand. Responsibilities include:
* Holds tube of sliver and inserts end into tube of air suction raveling device.
* Breaks or cuts excess sliver from tube, using scissors, and places tube on truck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who unwinds tubes of fiberglass sliver rejected by twister tender to remove short lengths and find end of continuous strand. Responsibilities include:
* Holds tube of sliver and inserts end into tube of air suction raveling device.
* Breaks or cuts excess sliver from tube, using scissors, and places tube on truck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks related to embroidering fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Carries frames to and from embroidery machines.
* Installs and removes frames from machine.
* Threads needles and changes threads.
* Replaces empty shuttles.
* Pins or ties overlapping fabric to frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes oil and grease spots from cloth by either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1)washes spots from cloth, using handbrush, detergents and water, or prepared chemicals.
* (2) Dissolves and removes spots from cloth, using spray gun filled with cleaning chemicals.
* May use illuminated inspection frame to facilitate detection of oil and grease spots.
* May be designated according to articles cleaned as pillowcase cleaner; sheet cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes oil and grease spots from cloth by either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1)washes spots from cloth, using handbrush, detergents and water, or prepared chemicals.
* (2) Dissolves and removes spots from cloth, using spray gun filled with cleaning chemicals.
* May use illuminated inspection frame to facilitate detection of oil and grease spots.
* May be designated according to articles cleaned as pillowcase cleaner; sheet cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who screws or hammers metal pegs into holes of wooden pattern chain that controls weave pattern on dobby loom, following pattern diagram.
* Removes and relocates pegs with peg wrench or pliers.
* May replace worn leather on shuttle binders.
Industry:Professional careers
