- Industri: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machines that draw out (stretch) continuous synthetic fiber filaments to impart strength and flexibility and combine filaments into tow. Responsibilities include:
* Positions can of filaments at machine, places bobbins of filament on spindle and threads filament through rolls, pins, traveler, and onto takeup bobbin or into can, or threads filament directly from spinning machine.
* Opens valve to admit steam to heat rolls.
* Inspects tow for conformance to standards.
* Doffs machine when bobbins or cans are full or when knots, breaks, or tangles occur in filament.
* May tend tandem units that crimp and dry tow preparatory to cutting tow into staple lengths.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends intermediate carding machines that open, clean, mix, and straighten wool, asbestos, or synthetic fibers and deliver carded stock to finisher card. Responsibilities include:
* Patrols area between breaker and finisher cards and observes intermediate carding to detect clogged rollers and breaks in carded web (thin, web-like film of fibers).
* Stops machine, removes fiber from clogged rollers, and pieces up broken web by rolling and twisting fibers between fingers.
* Signals finisher-card tender to restart carding machines.
* Oils machine.
* Cleans machine, using airhose and rake.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists card grinder in setting up and repairing cotton and synthetic fiber carding machines and picking machines. Responsibilities include:
* Cleans machines of waste and excess fibers from previous run, using airhose.
* Inspects machines and machine parts to detect wearing of or damage to parts.
* Replaces defective parts, such as rollers, belts and gears, using handtools.
* Adjusts clearance between carding and doffing cylinder and between flats, using leaf, flat, and pen gauges, and listening for contact of surfaces.
* Adjusts machine parts, such as prefeeders, evenfeeders, and levers, to regulate speed of machine, flow of fiber, and length of lap.
* Grinds wire teeth of flats and carding and doffing cylinders, using grinding device.
* Inspects teeth to verify grinding meets specifications.
* Lubricates wearing surfaces of machine, using oilcan.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that removes (strips) accumulated cotton fibers adhering to wire teeth of carding and doffing drums, using any of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Positions stripping roller in brackets of carding machine so that wire teeth of roller project between wire teeth of carding cylinder.
* Starts machine, allowing stripping roller to revolve rapidly and remove fiber from slowly revolving card cylinder.
* May use stripping roll hood and suction pipe leading to handtruck to dispose of dust and lint (dustless stripping).
* (2) Moves lever to position built-in stripping roll so that wire teeth contact teeth of cylinder.
* Opens suction line to draw away lint collected by roll.
* (3) Places stripper nozzles of vacuum stripper attachment at side of carding cylinder and doffing drum.
* Starts machine to move stripper across cylinder, drawing dust into nozzle.
* May tend carding machines.
* May assist in grinding card rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends carding machines that open, clean, and align cotton, asbestos, or other fibers, and convert laps ii of fibers into sliver. Responsibilities include:
* Feeds loose fibers onto feeder apron or into hopper of machine, or mounts lap of fiber on bracket at feed end of machine and threads end of lap through feeder rollers or attaches end to lap in machine by pinching ends together with fingers.
* Patrols work area and observes machine operation to detect exhausting fiber or lap supply, machine malfunctions, sliver or lap breaks, and full cans of sliver at discharge end of machine.
* Pieces up broken sliver by rolling and twisting ends with fingers.
* Cleans machine, using brush, waste, and airhose.
* Replaces full cans of sliver with empty cans.
* May oil machine.
* May truck laps from picker room and hang laps on stands of machines.
* May tend machines that produce sliver from raw stock.
* May strip cards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts strands of fiberglass sliver into staple lengths. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls ends of sliver from creel and feeds sliver into feed rollers of cutter.
* Observes staple lengths falling from cutters into container on scales to detect defects, such as dirty strands and flared ends.
* Removes shipping containers from scales as specified weight is attained and seals container with gummed tape.
* Pastes label on shipping container and places container on pallet.
* Records weight on production records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam-heated machine that sets crimp in synthetic fibers used in high-bulk yarns. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts cans of sliver onto loading track of machine, by hand or using hoist.
* Starts machine that automatically loads, steams, vacuum dries, and unloads sliver.
* Removes cans of sliver from track on delivery side of machine.
* Feels sliver to determine if moisture has been removed.
* Inserts thermometer in can of sliver periodically to verify that fiber is being heated to specified temperature.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam-heated machine that sets crimp in synthetic fibers used in high-bulk yarns. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts cans of sliver onto loading track of machine, by hand or using hoist.
* Starts machine that automatically loads, steams, vacuum dries, and unloads sliver.
* Removes cans of sliver from track on delivery side of machine.
* Feels sliver to determine if moisture has been removed.
* Inserts thermometer in can of sliver periodically to verify that fiber is being heated to specified temperature.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that comb, draw, and align sisal and hemp fibers into sliver preparatory to spinning into yarn used in production of rope or twine. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls specified number of fiber coils under feed tray of machine, using hook.
* Places ends of fibers on feed tray and into combing teeth.
* Starts machine and observes feeding, combing, and coiling operations to ensure that fibers are correctly straightened and blended to form sliver.
* Pulls coil of sliver from beneath coiling head and slides it to next machine.
* May weigh and segregate coils according to type and grade.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that comb, draw, and align sisal and hemp fibers into sliver preparatory to spinning into yarn used in production of rope or twine. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls specified number of fiber coils under feed tray of machine, using hook.
* Places ends of fibers on feed tray and into combing teeth.
* Starts machine and observes feeding, combing, and coiling operations to ensure that fibers are correctly straightened and blended to form sliver.
* Pulls coil of sliver from beneath coiling head and slides it to next machine.
* May weigh and segregate coils according to type and grade.
Industry:Professional careers
