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A professional who tends tufting machine equipped with pattern roller and solenoids that control machine needles to tuft intricate designs. Responsibilities include:
* Selects pattern according to specifications and positions pattern on machine, using handtools.
* Pulls yarn ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes to thread machine.
* Draws material under machine needles, through cut-pile mechanism, and laps end around takeup rod.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect broken yarn or faulty pile cutting.
* Rethreads broken yarn or replaces broken needles.
* Replaces dull knives for cut-pile mechanism, using handtools.
* Removes dull rolls from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends multiple-needle machine that tufts material to be used for articles, such as rugs, robes, and bedspreads. Responsibilities include:
* Requests creeler to change yarn styles in creel or mounts supply packages on spindles and pieces up ends to leaders in yarn guides (plastic tubes).
* Draws ends through guides leading to machine, using suction device, and threads ends through guides, tensions, drop wires, and needle eyes.
* Places roll of backing material on brackets at entry end of machine, draws backing under machine needles, and attaches end to takeup roll. Moves lever that engages or disengages cam wheel to adjust machine to insert tufts in straight or irregular design.
* Observes tufting to detect yarn breaks and machine malfunctions.
* Rethreads broken yarn ends and replaces bent or broken needles and hooks (loopers).
* Replaces dull knives on cut-pile tufting machines, using handtools.
* Unthreads needles and ties up extra drop wires to adjust machine to accommodate narrower material.
* Increases or decreases speed of cloth feed and inserts or removes shims between needle plate and machine bed to adjust space between tufts and length of tufts.
* Workers who operate tufting machines are classified under tuft-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that button-tufts mattresses. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts needle stroke and button tying mechanism to thickness of mattress.
* Fills machine hopper with tufting buttons.
* Places mattress on movable table of machine and turns wheel to adjust distance between mattress and machine head.
* Presses button to start machine and moves table laterally, forward, and backward to space tufts as machine head inserts tufts into both sides.
* May tend machine that automatically moves table and tufts mattress, or semiautomatic machine that requires lever operation for each stroke.
* May tend machine that tufts with knots.
* May tuft by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends single-needle machine that tufts yarn through material to produce rugs. Responsibilities include:
* Measures, marks, or traces rug dimensions or outline on backing material (loosely woven fabric or burlap), using tape measure, marking pencil, and rug patterns.
* Mounts yarn packages on creel spindles and draws ends through guides, tensions, and needle eye.
* Positions roll of backing on machine brackets at entry end and threads material through feed rollers onto spiked takeup roll. Presses buttons and lever to start machine that inserts tufts in singular rows through material.
* Observes tufting to detect broken yarn ends and malfunctions.
* Rethreads broken yarn ends and reports malfunctions to repair personnel.
* Cuts material with scissors when specified carpeting has been tufted.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with combining, spinning, weaving, knitting, and otherwise working textiles, textile products, fur, and hair.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating machine to embroider designs on fabric.
* Sets up and repairs machines.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacturing needle (punched) felt. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up machines to make experimental samples.
* Observes operation of machines to detect malfunction and adjusts machines, using handtools.
* Trains new workers.
* Requisitions materials.
* Inspects work of operators to verify conformity to specifications.
* Directs delivery of finished goods to coating or shipping department.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacturing needle (punched) felt. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up machines to make experimental samples.
* Observes operation of machines to detect malfunction and adjusts machines, using handtools.
* Trains new workers.
* Requisitions materials.
* Inspects work of operators to verify conformity to specifications.
* Directs delivery of finished goods to coating or shipping department.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of knitting-machine fixer.
* Verifies setup and adjustment of machines and equipment.
* Trains workers in operation of machines and assigns work stations.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in winding burlap onto tubes for use in textile bag manufacturing. Responsibilities include:
* Requisitions bales of burlap for processing.
* Trains workers in machine operation.
* Directs machine adjustments as needed to maintain production level or adjusts machines, using handtools.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
