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A professional who doffs and transfers sliver cans among carding, drawing, and slubbing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes or drags full sliver cans from carding to drawing, and from drawing to slubbing machines to maintain workflow.
* Removes empty cans from drawing and slubbing machines and places them in position for reuse at carding machines.
* May sweep work area or clean machines.
* May be designated according to machine area worked as card doffer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds fiber, such as hemp or sisal, into machine that breaks up matted bundles, and oils and straightens fibers to form sliver. Responsibilities include:
* Places bundles of fibers on machine feed conveyor.
* Observes sliver emerging from machine and varies rate of feeding to maintain production of uniform sliver of specified weight.
* Turns valve to start flow of oil that lubricates, softens, and preserves fibers.
* When feeding armfuls of short hemp fibers into machine, is designated tow feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds raw fiber stock into machines that loosen, shred, separate, clean, form nubs, or straighten fibers. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work ticket to determine amount and type of stock to be processed.
* Records amount of materials processed, during work shift.
* Places fibers on conveyor belt or into machine hopper for processing by machine.
* Opens and closes gates of belt and pneumatic conveyors on machines fed directly from preceding machines.
* Loosens material before dumping material into hoppers by pulling fibers apart.
* Moves stock from storage or other departments to machine, using industrial truck or handtruck.
* May tend automatic machines and equipment that process fiber stock.
* May feed polyurethane foam into machines.
* May feed fiber stock into drum to apply oil to stock prior to further processing.
* May be designated according to type of machine fed as carding-machine feeder; garnett feeder; nub-card tender; picker feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes strands of waste cotton that wind around separating cylinder of waste machine, to prevent jams and maintain flow of waste from machine, using wire hook.
* Carries waste to storage bins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans dirt or foreign matter from carded asbestos fibers, using wire studded scratchboard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans lint and dust from drawing rollers of spinning or roving frames while machines are in operation, using pneumatic roll picker or handbrush.
* Removes roving wound on rollers, using fingers or hook.
* Feels rubber covered rollers for surface defects, replaces defective rollers, and routes defective rollers for resurfacing.
* May brush lint and dust from ring rail.
* May piece up roving or yarn breaks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs roving samples from wool carding machines and adjusts machines to produce roving of specified weight. Responsibilities include:
* Measures roving with ruler to obtain sample of specified length.
* Weighs sample and compares weight with standard chart to detect variations.
* Moves weight on weight-control lever of carding machine to regulate rate at which raw stock is fed into machine, altering weight of roving produced.
* May weigh rolls of fibrous web and be designated web sizer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with twisting together yarn, thread, twine, or cordage, to impart such characteristics as strength, texture, resistance, and color tone; collecting the material upon beams or other devices, or gathering it into balls, bulk, coils, or skeins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparation of warp and filling yarn for weaving. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes production schedule to determine size, type, texture, and quantity of yarn required to meet production demands.
* Prepares order sheets, warp pattern sheets, and formula sheets and issues them to material handler, to workers tending warping-machines, to creeler, and to chemical mixer.
* Schedules changes in machine setups to meet requirements of production schedule, informing workers tending slashers, quilling-machines, and warping-machines of type, size, color, quantity, and number of yarn ends to be wound on quills or loom beams.
* Examines creel setup of warping machines to detect errors in number of yarn ends and arrangement of yarn in creel, and instructs creeler to alter setup to correspond with warp pattern sheet.
* Examines yarn on bobbins, quills, or beams to ensure conformance to standards.
* Trains workers in operation of machines and evaluates work performance.
* May be designated according to specific process supervised as drawing-in department supervisor; slashing department supervisor; warping department supervisor.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in winding yarn or thread from one package to another and in twisting yarn or thread. Responsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule to obtain information, such as size, type, texture, quality, and quantity of yarn required to meet production demands.
* Schedules winding of yarn onto suitable packages for subsequent processes, such as twisting, warping, dyeing, knitting, or weaving.
* Informs machine tenders of yarn type and size, winding speed, number of ends wound per package, and size of packages.
* Determines direction and amount of twist to be put into yarn, based on size of yarn, number of ends being plied, twists per inch and direction of twist in single yarn, and ultimate use of yarn.
* Computes gear size required to effect required twist, using mathematical formulas and tables.
* Schedules changes in production to meet requirements of production schedule, issuing new instructions to section leader and machine setter.
* Examines yarn to detect variations from standards.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in winding and twisting continuous filament yarns and be designated throwing department supervisor.
* May be designated according to specific activity as twisting department supervisor; winding department supervisor.
* May supervise workers engaged in twisting yarn around rubber strands to produce elastic yarn and be designated rubber covering supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
