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A professional who tends warping machine that gathers and winds strands of yarn in rope form into ball form preparatory to mercerizing, dyeing, or bleaching. Responsibilities include:
* Pieces up ends from supply package to leader to thread machine.
* Sets yardage counter to record amount of yarn wound and starts machine.
* Inserts and ties lease strings at prescribed intervals.
* Observes operation to detect yarn breaks.
* Locates and ties broken ends.
* Doffs ball warps. May tend machine with singeing attachment to remove lint from yarn.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds thread, twine, or yarn into balls preparatory to shipping or further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Places supply cones or spools on creel rack and threads yarn ends through guides and tension device.
* Pushes core over spindle of machine or wraps end of thread around shaping device of coreless winder.
* Pulls lever to start machine to wind specified amount of thread.
* Doffs balls of thread, using knife to cut thread.
* Inspects balls for defective winding or soiled thread.
* May insert labels under thread.
* May place ball on device to crush center and wrap end of thread around center as binder.
* May pack balls into boxes for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds thread, twine, or yarn into balls preparatory to shipping or further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Places supply cones or spools on creel rack and threads yarn ends through guides and tension device.
* Pushes core over spindle of machine or wraps end of thread around shaping device of coreless winder.
* Pulls lever to start machine to wind specified amount of thread.
* Doffs balls of thread, using knife to cut thread.
* Inspects balls for defective winding or soiled thread.
* May insert labels under thread.
* May place ball on device to crush center and wrap end of thread around center as binder.
* May pack balls into boxes for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends high-speed warpers that automatically wind yarn in parallel sheets onto beams preparatory to dyeing, weaving, or knitting. Responsibilities include:
* Examines yarn in creel to ensure that yarn corresponds to warp pattern sheet specifications, for number of yarn ends, arrangement of yarn in creel, yarn size, and color.
* Requests creeler to alter creel setup to correspond with warp pattern sheet.
* Pulls yarn ends from packages mounted on creel, through drop wires, and tension, measuring, and spreading devices, and fastens ends to empty warp beam to thread machine.
* Sets yardage counter to record amount of yarn wound and starts machine.
* Observes operation to detect yarn breaks which cause machine to stop.
* Turns beam back to point of break, locates and ties broken ends, and cuts excess yarn, using scissors.
* Stops machine when specified yardage is wound on beam, cuts yarn, and places gummed tape over ends or loops ends together to secure ends.
* Doffs full beams and sets in empties.
* May wrap beam with paper.
* May replace empty yarn packages.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine with multiple winding units that wind thread onto shuttle bobbins for use on sewing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Places empty tube on spindle of winding unit, wraps ends of thread around tube, and cuts off excess thread.
* Pushes lever to start winding unit which automatically stops when thread breaks or tubes are full.
* Cuts thread with scissors and removes tube.
* Removes and discards partially wound bobbins.
* Measures bobbin periodically, using gauge and turns screws to adjust tension if bobbin is not of specified size.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds binding, rickrack, and braid on paperboard cards. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps card and end of material in machine.
* Starts machine which makes predetermined number of revolutions to wind specified length of material on card.
* Cuts end of material with scissors and removes card from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who observes operation of covering machines to detect defective spindle action. Responsibilities include:
* Scrutinizes size and shape of twisting strand blur or places small celluloid sheet in path of whirling traveler to determine if spindles are performing as specified.
* Stops nonproductive spindles for repair or for replenishment of cones of rubber or fiber strands.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who observes operation of covering machines to detect defective spindle action. Responsibilities include:
* Scrutinizes size and shape of twisting strand blur or places small celluloid sheet in path of whirling traveler to determine if spindles are performing as specified.
* Stops nonproductive spindles for repair or for replenishment of cones of rubber or fiber strands.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends several single-spindle winding frames that wind strands of bonded glass fiber produced on fiber machines onto tubes for further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Slips empty tubes on spindles of winding machines, and fastens ends of fiber strand, handed down from floor above by fiber-machine tender, to each tube.
* Starts machines.
* Stops spindles when winding tubes are full, breaks off strand of fiber, and slides full winding tube from spindle.
* Observes strands being wound and ties together broken fiber ends.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts lease strings to keep warp strands separated in specified arrangement to facilitate drawing-in. Responsibilities include:
* Positions warp beam in holders, using hoist.
* Pulls warp ends over lease rod and turns rod to make warp threads taut.
* Places cone of string on holder and draws string through guides and needle to thread machine.
* Starts machine that raises and lowers warp threads and inserts string to keep threads in place and prevent tangling.
* Observes counter on machine to ensure that specified number of warp ends are wound on beam.
* Removes warp ends from rod, turns warp beam to rewind ends, and secures ends with tape.
* Removes warp beam from holder, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
