- Industri: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends machine to wind fishing line onto spools. Responsibilities include:
* Places spool of line on spindle.
* Slides empty spools on shaft of machine.
* Turns setscrews to hold spools in place.
* Threads line through machine handle, over blade and onto empty spools.
* Depresses pedal to start machine and wind line onto spools.
* Moves machine handle to guide line back and forth across spool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that brushes lint from heddles in harness frames: positions frame on feeding mechanism and starts machine that draws frame under brushes.
* Reverses position of frame on mechanism to complete cleaning cycle.
* Cleans machine and work area, using rags, broom, and airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses and joins cloth covering onto fiber helmet bodies, using either or both of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Positions precemented helmet bodies over mold on machine bed.
* Positions precut cloth over helmet and pulls cloth taut to remove wrinkles, assisted by co-worker.
* Depresses pedal that raises machine bed to force helmet into heated head of machine, pressing cloth onto crown of helmet.
* Releases pedal to lower machine bed and removes helmet.
* Trims excess cloth from edge of helmet brim, using knife or pinking shears.
* (2) Inserts covered crown of helmet in mold on bed of machine.
* Depresses pedal that raises machine bed, to force helmet brim into slot of heated head of machine, pressing cloth over rolled edge of helmet to inside of brim.
* May be designated according to part of helmet covered as helmet-brim coverer; helmet-crown coverer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines cloth for weaving or finishing defects, using hooker machine that folds cloth into yard lengths. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes roll of cloth onto machine brackets and threads cloth through feed rollers, over and under tension rollers, through slot of folding bar, and inserts end of cloth under clamps on machine table.
* Turns knob to set yardage counter or counts folds to determine yardage of cloth inspected.
* Depresses pedal to raise clamp, releasing cut of cloth, and removes cloth from machine.
* May complete folding of cloth by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically clean, dry, cut, and separate raw kapok and cotton fibers for use as pillow, cushion, and quilt filler. Responsibilities include:
* Removes wire and burlap from bales and pushes material into hopper of machine.
* Fastens cloth bag to machine outlet pipe and opens air duct to blow material through machine and into bag.
* Ties filled bag and transports bag to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts, folds cut edges, presses, counts, and packs labels in box. Responsibilities include:
* Positions roll of labels on holder and inserts end in feeder mechanism.
* Positions box at discharge end of machine and turns dial to set counter that stops machine when specified number of labels have been processed.
* Presses lever to start machine and observes labels to detect defective cutting, folding, or pressing.
* Removes defective labels and notifies machine fixer to adjust machine.
* Removes filled box of labels from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends loom that produces needle (punched) felt. Responsibilities include:
* Places roll of felt bat into feed holder of loom.
* Aligns bat on conveyor, threads end of bat through needle bed of loom, and attaches felt to rewind spindle.
* Starts machine, watches feed gauge, and stops machine when specified length of felt is produced.
* Cuts felt from roll with shears.
* May glue or sew together ends of base to form continuous roll.
* May place roll of textile base into feed holder and align with bat to produce textile backed felt.
* May replace defective needle boards, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that pulls false selvages and waste filling floats from looped pile fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts roll of cloth into feeding position and pins end of cloth to leader in machine.
* Positions false selvage between feed rollers on each side of machine.
* Starts machine and observes flow of cloth to detect oblique twist due to unequal tension on cloth.
* Depresses pedal to release tension on leading selvage and allow lagging selvage to catch up.
* Doffs rolls of cloth and full boxes of filling waste.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects greige corduroy or velvet cloth to detect uncut filling floats, and cuts floats, using pickup knife. Responsibilities include:
* Positions truck of cloth at entry end of examining frame and pins end of cloth to leader in machine.
* Depresses pedal to start machine that passes cloth over inspection board, and scans cloth for uncut floats missed by corduroy-cutter operator.
* Inserts point of pickup knife under floats and cuts threads.
* Doffs cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.
* Records yardage of cloth inspected.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that fills (stuffs) quilt, comforter, and sleeping bag covers with padding. Responsibilities include:
* Fastens cover, sewn on three sides, over frame that holds cover open, and places padding on movable track.
* Presses button to activate mechanisms that stuffs and encloses padding in cover.
* Works as member of team to stuff covers.
Industry:Professional careers
