- Industry: Government; Labor
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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
A professional who removes false selvages and filling floats from looped pile fabric by hand. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts roll of cloth onto brackets at end of table and unrolls cloth onto table.
* Trims false selvage from one edge of cloth, using scissors.
* Secures trimmed edge of cloth on pins set along edge of table.
* Pulls false selvage on opposite edge of cloth to remove selvage and floats.
* Folds and piles cloth on handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes false selvages and filling floats from looped pile fabric by hand. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts roll of cloth onto brackets at end of table and unrolls cloth onto table.
* Trims false selvage from one edge of cloth, using scissors.
* Secures trimmed edge of cloth on pins set along edge of table.
* Pulls false selvage on opposite edge of cloth to remove selvage and floats.
* Folds and piles cloth on handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects raw silk samples to determine if silk meets specified quality standards. Responsibilities include:
* Places silk on grading frame.
* Examines silk, using various lighting effects, and compares shade of silk to standard examples on master panel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes grease spots, stains, and similar manufacturing blemishes from rugs, using solvent, such as carbon tetrachloride, and rags, brushes, pads, and sponges.
* Loads rugs in extractor for drying.
* Works as member of team to clean and dry rugs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who threads and replaces shuttles in shuttle rail of embroidery machine to maintain embroidery operation. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts thread, needles, cloth, and backing in machine.
* Inserts and threads prewound bobbins into empty shuttles.
* Places shuttles into slots of machine shuttle rail to maintain embroidery operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches fabric to frames for installation in embroidery machines. Responsibilities include:
* Clips garment piece to top of frame, pulls fabric taut, and clamps or pins overhanging material under frame.
* Adjusts frame on machine and aligns needles and shuttle rails, using spanner wrench.
* May pin applique cloth strips over spanned fabric.
* May cut threads and excess applique material from embroidered garment section before removing pieces from frame.
* May thread needles, replace depleted bobbins, and cut threads between needles and embroidered fabric.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines skeins of yarn to detect flaws, such as soils, slubs, breaks, and uneven dyeing or twisting. Responsibilities include:
* Shakes skeins to straighten yarn, hangs skeins on rod and spreads and pulls yarn around rod to locate imperfections.
* Cuts out slubs and ties yarn ends together.
* Examines winding and tying of skein to determine if skein has been made according to job order.
* Weighs skein from each lot and records weight.
* Records number and type of flaws found in each lot of yarn.
* Knots hank of yarn around several skeins to form bundle and packs bundles into boxes for shipment.
* May remove soils with cleaning fluid.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts yarn according to type, size, weight, color, blend, and quality for storage or distribution to other departments.
* May doff winding machines.
* May convey yarn to storage or other departments, using handtruck.
* May store yarn in bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts and removes waste yarn entangled around machine parts of yarn texturing machine, using knife. Responsibilities include:
* Observes machine positions to ensure yarn ends are running through automatic cutters and that drop wires are set, and to detect defective cutters or uncut waste yarn left from previous shift.
* Cuts waste yarn caused by yarn breaks from machine parts, such as feed rollers and takeup packages, using knife.
* Removes feed rollers to cut waste yarn, and realigns and tightens rollers, using wrench.
* Sweeps waste yarn from around machines and catwalks, using broom, and deposits yarn in receptacles.
* Pushes cart loaded with textured yarn to yarn cleaning area.
* Transports boxes filled with empty color-coded takeup rolls from storage area to machine area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
