- Industri: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that brushes designs into wet pile of pile fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts metal rod through cloth roll and lifts roll into feeding position.
* Threads cloth over tension rod, between stencil roller with raised design and brushing rollers, and laps end around takeup roll, or sews end of cloth roll to cloth in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Starts machine, and straightens cloth with hands to remove wrinkles as cloth enters machine.
* Pushes lever to disengage winding shaft and doffs rolls of stenciled cloth onto handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends strike-off machine that prints cloth with samples of color paste for comparison with color standards prior to production printing. Responsibilities include:
* Tapes piece of white cloth on printing drum.
* Places moist cloth pads between engraved strikes (depressions) on printing roller to separate colors being printed.
* Pours color sample on engraved strikes of roller.
* Starts strike-off machine to print impression on cloth.
* Removes printed sample from machine and places cloth in steam press to dry or places cloth in aging machine to develop and fix color.
* Trims sample, using scissors.
* Marks identification number on sample and records sample identification data.
* Washes strike-off roller and doctor, using brush or rag and water.
* May tend single-roller printing machine that prints cloth samples for use by laboratory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends strike-off machine that prints cloth with samples of color paste for comparison with color standards prior to production printing. Responsibilities include:
* Tapes piece of white cloth on printing drum.
* Places moist cloth pads between engraved strikes (depressions) on printing roller to separate colors being printed.
* Pours color sample on engraved strikes of roller.
* Starts strike-off machine to print impression on cloth.
* Removes printed sample from machine and places cloth in steam press to dry or places cloth in aging machine to develop and fix color.
* Trims sample, using scissors.
* Marks identification number on sample and records sample identification data.
* Washes strike-off roller and doctor, using brush or rag and water.
* May tend single-roller printing machine that prints cloth samples for use by laboratory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically prints identifying information, such as size, style, and lot number, on tickets, and sews, glues, heat seals, or staples tickets to garments or garment parts. Responsibilities include:
* Selects and positions specified type in chase attachment and inserts attachment in machine.
* Turns knobs to set stationary type or numerical counter of machine in starting position.
* Places roll of tickets on holder and inserts end of roll into feeding device.
* Places spool of thread or wire on holder and threads it through machine.
* Places garment or garment part on machine bed and under needle or stapling device.
* Pushes lever to start machine that automatically feeds tickets under stamping head, prints information on tickets, and cuts and sews, glues, heat seals, or staples ticket to garment or garment part.
* May tend machine that prints identifying information on tags or tickets.
* May be designated according to product labeled as glove tagger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machines that print identifying data on top wad used in shotgun shells. Responsibilities include:
* Fills ink reservoir.
* Selects printing rollers or die set according to work order and installs them in machine, using handtools.
* Scoops blank wads from supply trough onto grooved board and shakes board to arrange wads in grooves.
* Tilts board and slides stacks of wads from grooves into feed tubes.
* Sets feed tube in machine or fills hopper with blank wads, using scoop.
* Starts machine and examines wads for clarity of printing.
* Cleans type, using brush and solvent, or replaces worn dies to obtain clear impression.
* Weighs containers of printed wads and records amount of each type printed.
* Loads feed tubes with printed wads, using shaker board, for use in shell-loading machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends phototypesetting machine and photo processor that print and develop proof of phototypesetting type disk in disk manufacturing establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Selects roll of programmed tape from file, secures roll onto reel of phototypesetting machine, and threads tape through machine rollers and into reader to prepare machine for automatic operation.
* Cleans dust and lint from disk and places disk in phototypesetting machine.
* Depresses keys to enter command codes for projection of type images from type disk onto film cassette in photo unit of machine and onto screen of cathode ray tube.
* Scans images on screen to detect type defects and notifies supervisor, type-disk quality control of irregularities.
* Removes film cassette from machine, places cassette on receiving platform of photo processor, and depresses switch to begin developing cycle.
* Depresses switch to stop machine when runoff (proofsheet) emerges.
* Removes disk from phototypesetting machine, and places disk and runoff in specified storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic printing machine that prints identifying symbols and numbers on semiconductor packages. Responsibilities include:
* Refills ink or paint reservoir.
* Inserts printing plate or type block in printing machine.
* Places semiconductor package on holding fixture in printing machine or places tube containing semiconductor packages in loading device of automatic printing machine.
* Flips switch or depresses pedal to print symbols and numbers on semiconductor circuit packages.
* Visually inspects package markings to identify misprints.
* Cleans and reprints packages, using cleaning solution and cotton swabs.
* Places printed semiconductor packages in trays.
* May set type on type block, using tweezers.
* May place printed packages in oven to dry or set ink.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds and off bears machine that prints cloth. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes roll of cloth from handtruck onto rack at back of scray.
* Sews end of cloth roll to preceding cut of cloth, using sewing machine.
* Starts feeding rollers that unwind cloth into scray.
* Positions handtruck beneath swing-folding attachment and packs cloth into truck with hands.
* Tears cloth or ravels seam when truck is filled.
* May feed and off bear cloth printing machine that utilizes caustic soda instead of color paste to shrink cloth to form plisse and be designated plisse-machine operator helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds metal or simulated wood panels, sheets, or strips into machine that prints lines resembling natural wood grain.
* Holds or moves irregularly shaped pieces against printing roller to impart grainlike appearance.
* Stacks grained pieces for further processing or assembly into articles, such as television cabinets, automobile dashboards, and office furniture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds back gray cloth into cloth printing machine, and removes printed cloth from delivery end of machine. Responsibilities include:
* Trucks rolls of back gray cloth to printing machine, removes burlap wrapping, and sews end of cloth to preceding roll, using sewing machine.
* Starts feeding rollers that unwind back gray cloth into scray.
* Positions handtruck beneath swing-folding attachment and scans cloth for printing flaws as cloth is folded into truck.
* Notifies cloth printer as flaws occur.
* Marks lot number on end of each truck of cloth, ravels connecting seam, and replaces full truck with empty truck.
* Tears sample from each lot of cloth.
* Assists printing-roller handler or back tender, cloth printing in removing and replacing color boxes, doctors, printing rollers, and gears when changing pattern, and in mounting feedrolls of cloth on printing machine.
* May truck soiled cloth to back-gray-cloth washer.
Industry:Professional careers
