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A professional who feeds asbestos boards into hopper of power shearing and punching machine that cuts boards into shingles and punches holes in each shingle for installation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects asbestos shingles for defects, such as cracks, broken edges, and irregularly punched holes. Responsibilities include:
* Scrutinizes shingles to detect defects as they move on conveyor.
* Removes shingles that fail to meet plant specifications and sorts shingles according to standards for various grades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this division includes occupations concerned with shaping, joining, spinning, weaving, and otherwise fabricating textiles, textile products, fur, and hair.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with opening, separating, paralleling, and intermingling fibers; condensing, doubling, and lengthening them into a continuous, untwisted strand, and crimping fibers and strands.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in processing natural and synthetic raw stock into lap sliver and roving for use in yarn spinning, utilizing knowledge of fiber-processing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Verifies setup and adjustment of such machines as carding machines and drawing frames, using gauges and handtools.
* Examines raw stock in storage to determine that specified fibers are available for processing.
* Inspects products through processing stages to maintain specified standards.
* Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment and evaluates worker performances.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to process supervised as drawing supervisor; opening and picking supervisor; roving supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs roving samples to detect variation in weight produced by tape condensers of woolen carding machines. Responsibilities include:
* Positions jackspool of roving in winding position and threads roving ends from spool through guides and takeup roller.
* Sets yardage counter at specified yardage and turns crank to wind sample of roving.
* Weighs sample on grain scales and records weight on chart.
* Plots weight of each end of roving produced by single carding machine on graph paper and compares graph with standard graph to isolate variations in roving.
* Reports variations from standards to machine fixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grinds wire teeth on drums and flats of carding machines to uniform height, and sets up machines according to specifications and fiber processing standards. Responsibilities include:
* Removes fibers adhering to wire teeth of cylinder and doffing drums, using card stripper.
* Removes belts and disengages gears not needed for grinding operation.
* Lifts grinding rollers onto brackets above flats and carding and doffing cylinders of machine.
* Places drive belt between carding machine drive mechanism and grinder rolls, and starts machine.
* Turns setscrews and listens to sound of grinder to regulate pressure of grinding roller on teeth of drum.
* Examines and feels teeth to verify that grinding meets specifications.
* Removes grinding rolls, and brushes emery dust from teeth of cylinder.
* Adjusts clearances between card rolls and flats to set up machine, using leaf, flat, and pin gauges, and listens for contact of surfaces.
* Replaces defective parts, using handtools.
* Cleans and oils machines.
* May replace worn cloth on cylinders of carding machine.
* May remove carding drum and grind drum on separate machine.
* May direct card tender and other cardroom employees in setting up grinding equipment.
* May be designated according to machine repaired as napper grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that converts loose textile fibers into batting. Responsibilities include:
* Throws or dumps fibers into hopper of machine or moves lever to control automatic feeding by conveyor belt.
* Lifts roll of finished batting from machine and starts new roll winding onto takeup beam.
* Weighs and records weight of sample from each roll.
* Moves weight on lever to control amount of fiber fed into machine and weight of batting produced.
* May tend picking machine to open and fluff fiber.
* May cut batting into specified lengths with scissors and roll lengths into bundles.
* May wrap and pack bundles of batting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that stretch tow, break tow into staple lengths, and crimp resulting sliver. Responsibilities include:
* Ties rope of filaments to filaments in machine or threads rope through guides and tension rollers, heating plates, breaking rollers, and crimping device and into receiving can.
* Observes operation of machines to detect fibers wrapping around rollers and cuts away tangled fibers.
* Adjusts yardage clock to stop machine when specified amount of fiber is in receiving can.
* Records production data, and writes identification tickets for cans of sliver.
* May tend machine that sets crimp in fiber.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that stretch tow, break tow into staple lengths, and crimp resulting sliver. Responsibilities include:
* Ties rope of filaments to filaments in machine or threads rope through guides and tension rollers, heating plates, breaking rollers, and crimping device and into receiving can.
* Observes operation of machines to detect fibers wrapping around rollers and cuts away tangled fibers.
* Adjusts yardage clock to stop machine when specified amount of fiber is in receiving can.
* Records production data, and writes identification tickets for cans of sliver.
* May tend machine that sets crimp in fiber.
Industry:Professional careers
