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A professional who tends machine that winds yarn in chain form from skeins or ball warps onto beams in parallel sheets. Responsibilities include:
* Laces end of skein around rollers and pulls end through dividers in separate skeins or inserts rod through center of ball warp and lifts warp onto stand for unwinding.
* Guides end of yarn chain around tension drums and lays individual strands of yarn between teeth of expansion comb.
* Turns crank to adjust comb to width of beam.
* Knots section of warp ends and inserts knots in slots of beam to hold yarn for winding.
* Starts, stops, and controls speed of machine with pedal.
* Observes yarn to detect slubs and broken or tangled ends; cuts out slubs, using scissors, and ties broken yarn ends with fingers.
* Inserts lease strings at intervals to preserve arrangement of yarn.
* Secures ends of yarn on beam with gummed tape.
* May doff beam, using hoist.
* May be designated according to type of yarn wound as silk beamer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends winding units attached to looms that automatically wind yarn onto quills, transfer quills to loom shuttles, and strip bunch yarn from expended quills. Responsibilities include:
* Positions yarn packages on machine creel and threads yarn end through guides, tensions, and yarn carrier.
* Places empty quills in feed tray of winding unit.
* Patrols aisles between looms to detect malfunctions, such as jammed quills, broken yarn ends, exhausted yarn packages, and unstripped quills in reject tray.
* Straightens or removes jammed quills, ties broken yarn ends, replaces exhausted yarn packages, strips yarn from rejected quills by hand, and places stripped quills in feed tray.
* Notifies loom fixer of mechanical defects.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade name of machines used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds cones or tubes of yarn or thread to specified size and lay. Responsibilities include:
* Places supply packages in creel and draws yarn ends through machine guides and tensions onto takeup tubes to thread winding units.
* Turns dial of yardage clock to control amount of yarn wound.
* Turns gear to set lay, using wrench.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect yarn breaks and exhausting supply packages.
* Pieces up broken ends.
* Doffs yarn when package reaches specified size.
* May weigh yarn package and remove or wind yarn to bring package to specified weight.
* May tend machine equipped with troughs to draw yarn or thread through solutions specified by processing instructions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends quiller that winds strands of yarn from ball warps onto bobbins or quills after bleaching, mercerizing, or dyeing. Responsibilities include:
* Divides new warp into sections to facilitate handling, using twisting hook or ring to hold yarn parallel.
* Twists each new strand to preceding strand in machine with fingers to draw yarn through reed and guides without rethreading.
* Starts machine and depresses pedal board to control winding speed.
* Feels warp for tangles and observes yarn for breaks.
* Stops machine to straighten warp, remove lease strings, or thread broken ends through reed and guides.
* Doffs bobbins or quills from spindles and replaces with empties.
* Brushes dust and lint from machine and oils spindle bearings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with automatic quill loading and doffing device that winds yarn from cones or tubes onto quills for use in loom shuttle. Responsibilities include:
* Loads hopper with empty quills by hand or electric hoist.
* Places supply packages of yarn on holders, according to yarn count, blend, and color of label inside packages, and ties yarn ends from packages to ends in machine and cuts excess yarn at knots with scissors.
* Observes winding units to detect breaks in yarn.
* Removes quills when yarn breaks, rethreads yarn through guides, and ties yarn ends.
* Removes full boxes or pinboards (boards with upright spindles), which receive wound quills ejected by machine, and separates partially filled quills.
* Keeps production records.
* May inspect quills for defects, such as broken filament and dirty or damaged yarn.
* May mark quills of yarn according to style of yarn being processed, using colored chalk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends former machine that twists strands of asbestos roving to form wick, and rope-twisting machine that twists strands of wick to form rope. Responsibilities include:
* Creels spools of asbestos roving or wick on machines and threads material through guides, flyer, and around winding spindles.
* Starts machines and observes twisting to detect breaks in material.
* Pieces up broken roving ends, or ties broken wick ends.
* Doffs full package of wick and rope from machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that lay (twist) fiber strands or twine into rope and wind rope onto reels. Responsibilities include:
* Selects and mounts reels of ready (strands) or twine on machine according to rope size specified, using hoist.
* Threads strands or twine from reels through guides to twisting mechanism, and splices strands or twine to lead rope attached to reel.
* Starts machine and monitors operation to detect defective laying or winding of rope.
* Stops machine when counter shows specified length is wound.
* Cuts rope with knife and binds coil with cord to prevent unwinding.
* Hammers pin from end of reel and pulls it from coil.
* May weigh coils.
* May install gears and tubes to produce specified types and sizes of rope, using handtools.
* May burn or cut rough spots from rope, using soldering iron or scissors.
* May tend machine that forms and twists fiber strands into rope.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds strands of rubber used in golf ball cores onto spools. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls strands from container and draws strands along winding area to machine.
* Runs each strand through separator, wraps ends around spools, and clamps spools to spindles.
* Holds strands in hand, presses pedal to start spools winding, and feeds and guides strands of rubber from container, along winding area, and to machine.
* Pulls twisted strands to remove snarls or tangles, and stops machine to untwist knots.
* Stops machine when length markers reach separators, cuts off strands at marker, removes spools from spindles, and handwraps remainder of strand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds strands of rubber used in golf ball cores onto spools. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls strands from container and draws strands along winding area to machine.
* Runs each strand through separator, wraps ends around spools, and clamps spools to spindles.
* Holds strands in hand, presses pedal to start spools winding, and feeds and guides strands of rubber from container, along winding area, and to machine.
* Pulls twisted strands to remove snarls or tangles, and stops machine to untwist knots.
* Stops machine when length markers reach separators, cuts off strands at marker, removes spools from spindles, and handwraps remainder of strand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds sheets of selvage yarn onto spools. Responsibilities include:
* Positions yarn packages on creel and threads yarn from comb, through guides, stop motions, and expansion comb and laps yarn ends around takeup spool.
* Starts machine and observes flow of yarn to detect breaks in yarn.
* Stops machine and pieces up broken ends.
* Doffs full spools of selvage yarn from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
