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A professional who feeds or off bears machine that vacuums foreign matter from reclaimed tobacco cloth (cheesecloth) and cuts cloth into specified lengths for use as disposable wiping rags. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes bales of cloth into feeding position and places end of cloth on roller conveyor that conveys cloth through machine.
* Removes cut lengths of cloth from delivery end of machine and ties lengths into bundles.
* Deposits bundles in container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who wraps cakes of rayon yarn in cloth to protect threads during steaming, washing, and drying processes.
* May perform duties of washer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who folds cloth by hand to facilitate wrapping, packing, or further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Unreels cloth from bolt onto table.
* Examines cloth for defects, such as faulty dyeing, printing, or finishing.
* Folds fabric into halves, aligns edges, and matches pattern of fabric.
* Laps cloth at specified intervals to fold into pile.
* Binds folded cloth, using rope.
* Records lot number and disposition of goods folded on production sheet.
* May trim ends of cloth, using scissors.
* May staple or pin edges of cloth together.
* May work as member of team to fold broad woven goods.
* May be designated according to goods folded as bedspread folder; blanket folder; dishcloth folder; pillowcase folder; sheet folder; towel folder; washcloth folder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out and folds bolts of fabrics, such as silk and rayon, preparatory to moire processing, dyeing, and other processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines if cloth should be folded by hand or machine, according to type of processing to be done or specifications, and lays aside bolts to be folded by machine.
* Folds remaining bolts end-to-end as specified.
* Records data, such as customer's number, lot number, piece number, yardage, date, color, style, and process specified, for each bolt.
* May fold finished bolts of fabrics.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares sample pads of textile fibers by hand for use in comparing textile batch color with standard. Respnsibilities include:
* Cards fibers received from dyeing process, using brush, and dries fibers in oven.
* Weighs dried fibers, mats specified weight into pads, and washes and dries pads.
* Cuts excess fibers from pads, using scissors.
* Attaches identification tags to pads.
* May blend different colored fibers to determine quantity of each color required to make specified shade.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares sample pads of textile fibers by hand for use in comparing textile batch color with standard. Respnsibilities include:
* Cards fibers received from dyeing process, using brush, and dries fibers in oven.
* Weighs dried fibers, mats specified weight into pads, and washes and dries pads.
* Cuts excess fibers from pads, using scissors.
* Attaches identification tags to pads.
* May blend different colored fibers to determine quantity of each color required to make specified shade.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies liquid dye or stain to leather articles, such as belts, gloves, and pocketbooks, to cover blemishes and color edges, gussets, and seams of assembled articles, using brushes, daubers, and swabs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies sizing solution, such as gelatin, glue, lacquer, paint, or shellac to hat or hat parts to stiffen, waterproof, or impart finish to hat. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours premixed solutions into container or thins solution, following work order specifications.
* Applies solution to hat or hat parts by any combination of following tasks.
* Brushes or sponges solution onto articles; dips articles into tub of solution; sprays solution onto article, using spray gun; inserts parts between solution-coated rollers of machine.
* Places articles on holder of machine that spins articles to remove surplus liquid.
* Hangs articles on pegs or on holders of conveyor belt that carries articles through drying room to complete drying and stiffening operation.
* May be designated according to hat or hat part stiffened as brim stiffener; panama-hat smearer; strawhat sizer; or according to solution used in sizing article as lacquer sizer; varnisher.
* When reapplying sizing solution to article to cover thin spots in original coating, may be known as retouching operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes cloth covers from dye tubes or springs to prepare tubes for reuse. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts cover with knife or holds tube against revolving emery wheel.
* Pulls cover from tube by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who covers dye tubes with cloth tubing to prevent yarn damage during dyeing process. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts tubes on prongs of covering device and slides tubing over tubes.
* Removes tubes from device and tucks excess tubing into ends of tubes.
* Sorts defective dye tubes for repair or disposal.
* May cut tubing into specified lengths, using electric cutting wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
