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A professional who tends machine that winds narrow fabrics, such as tape, into skeins for dyeing or shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Draws fabric ends from box, threads each end through traverse guide, and ties end to reel.
* Turns dial to set yardage counter that stops machine when specified yardage has been wound.
* Presses pedal to start machine.
* Laces string through and around each skein to preserve arrangement and prevent tangling.
* Pulls lever to contract reel, slides skeins to end of reel, and removes skeins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds narrow fabrics, such as tape, into skeins for dyeing or shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Draws fabric ends from box, threads each end through traverse guide, and ties end to reel.
* Turns dial to set yardage counter that stops machine when specified yardage has been wound.
* Presses pedal to start machine.
* Laces string through and around each skein to preserve arrangement and prevent tangling.
* Pulls lever to contract reel, slides skeins to end of reel, and removes skeins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that draw out, combine, and twist two strands of roving into single strands. Responsibilities include:
* Observes machines to detect breaks in roving or nearly exhausted bobbins in creels.
* Replaces nearly empty bobbins on creels with full bobbins.
* Stops machine, threads flyer, and pieces up broken roving.
* Removes flyers and doffs bobbins of roving when machine stops automatically.
* Sets empty bobbins on spindles, replaces flyers, and starts machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that draw out, combine, and twist two strands of roving into single strands. Responsibilities include:
* Observes machines to detect breaks in roving or nearly exhausted bobbins in creels.
* Replaces nearly empty bobbins on creels with full bobbins.
* Stops machine, threads flyer, and pieces up broken roving.
* Removes flyers and doffs bobbins of roving when machine stops automatically.
* Sets empty bobbins on spindles, replaces flyers, and starts machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that twist combed hemp or sisal fiber or yarn into strands and winds strands onto bobbins. Responsibilities include:
* Threads sliver (combed fiber) or yarn through guides to twisting mechanism of spinning machine.
* Opens safety cover to inspect twisting die, places empty bobbin on spindle, and fastens end of yarn or strand to bobbin.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect unsteady flow of material into spinning head, and uneven winding on bobbin.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds bias binding, cloth, cording, piping, or tape onto cardboard spools. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps spool onto spindle of machine.
* Starts machine and guides material onto revolving spool by hand.
* Cuts material with scissors when spool is full.
* May wrap rolls or spools in paper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms (twists) rope-fiber yarn into strands preparatory to being laid into rope. Responsibilities include:
* Installs specified size tubes that gather and compress yarn preparatory to twisting.
* Places specified number of full yarn bobbins on creel.
* Threads yarn ends from bobbins through holes in register plates that align yarn through gathering tubes around capstan that maintains tension on strand, and ties end to reel that revolves to twist and form strand.
* Stops machine to repair yarn breaks.
* Removes full reel, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic machine that winds thread from cones onto spools or tubes used on sewing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Places full cones on rack, and passes threads through guides, tension device, yardage counter, and drop wires. Loads tubes or spools into machine hopper.
* Observes operations of machine to detect breaks or lap-ups. Removes spools having winding defects, or pieces up broken ends, using knotter.
* Inspects spools for defects in winding and color as they are discharged by machine.
* May verify spool size, using gauge.
* May pack filled tubes or spools in boxes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that twists together two or more yarn strands into twine or produce plied yarn for use in rope making. Responsibilities include:
* Transfers filled spools of yarn to adjoining twister frame that twists two or more strands together to make twine.
* Doffs machine and packs filled spools of twine and empty cylinders in cartons.
* May tend machines that spin roving into yarn preparatory to twisting operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that twist together two or more strands of yarn or insert additional twist into single strand of yarn to increase strength, smoothness, and uniformity of yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine with bobbins of yarn, following work ticket specifications for color and type of yarn, or notifies change crew of exhausting yarn supply.
* Pulls ends of yarn over rollers, through tension guides, traveler, or flyer, and laps yarn onto takeup spool.
* Patrols machines to detect yarn breaks and exhausted supply packages.
* Ties broken ends by hand or with knotter, rethreads stopoffs, and untangles yarn.
* When twisting fiberglass sliver or yarn, repairs breaks with splicing fluid.
* May doff takeup packages and replace them with empty spools.
* May tend twisting machine that combines yarn with wire.
* May record production and worker identification on ticket.
* May inspect yarn for defective twisting and remove defective takeup packages.
* May tend machines that produce irregular effects or patterns in yarn by actions of pattern chain or by setup of rolls and be designated novelty-twister tender.
Industry:Professional careers
