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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in spinning yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule for information, such as quantity of yarn, type of fiber, staple length, yarn size, quality and texture desired, and ultimate use of yarn.
* Computes draft required to reduce roving to specified yarn size and drafting gear size to effect draft, using mathematical formulas and tables.
* Determines spacing of drafting rollers according to staple length of fiber.
* Analyzes yarn specifications to determine amount of twist to put into yarn.
* Computes twist gear size, using mathematical formulas and tables.
* Schedules changes in machine setup to produce yarn according to production schedule, issuing change instructions to section leader and machine setter.
* Examines yarn to detect variations from standards.
* Schedules doffing of frames to avoid excessive downtime.
* Trains new employees.
* Participates in setup and adjustment of machines and equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies speed of drafting rollers on spinning frames, using tachometer. Responsibilities include:
* Presses tachometer button against rollers and observes dial indicator to obtain r.p.m.
* readings.
* Examines rollers for surface damage and replaces defective rollers or flags malfunctioning machines.
* Pieces up broken ends.
* Changes travelers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends spinning frame that draws out and twists roving or sliver into yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Patrols work area and observes spinning to detect nearly exhausted supply packages and breaks in yarn, roving, and sliver.
* Pieces up breaks in yarn, roving, and sliver and replaces nearly exhausted supply packages with full packages.
* Twists end of material from supply package to material in machine or threads material from supply package through machine guides and drawing rollers.
* Brushes yarn or lint from drawing rollers, guides, and rails.
* Notifies designated personnel of machine malfunction.
* May doff machine.
* May change travelers.
* May be designated according to machine tended as cap frame spinner; open-end spinner; ring frame spinner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mule-spinning frame that spins roving into yarn and winds yarn onto bobbins. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine and threads roving through guides, between feed rollers, and onto bobbins.
* Starts machine and patrols work area to detect breaks in roving.
* Stops machine and pieces up broken roving ends.
* Turns crank to increase or decrease tension of faller wires on yarn according to fullness of bobbins.
* Doffs full bobbins from machine and replaces them with empty bobbins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who changes travelers on ring-spinning frames according to style or size of yarn being processed or at regular intervals because of wear, using fingers, hammer, or hook.
* Threads yarn through traveler and restarts machine.
* May replace supply packages of roving on spinning frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with interlacing two sets of yarn to form a fabric.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in weaving narrow fabric products, such as endless belts. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects woven material during weaving process to detect loom malfunctions.
* Adjusts looms to obtain belts of specified pattern.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating looms to weave cloth. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up loom and adjusts tension and timing of parts, using handtools and following diagrams and manuals.
* Aligns parts, such as shuttle boxes, race plates, and reeds, using straightedge, level, and square.
* Replaces defective parts, such as harness straps and shuttles.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating looms to weave cloth. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up loom and adjusts tension and timing of parts, using handtools and following diagrams and manuals.
* Aligns parts, such as shuttle boxes, race plates, and reeds, using straightedge, level, and square.
* Replaces defective parts, such as harness straps and shuttles.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in weaving and related operations in manufacture of carpets and rugs.
* Directs warp drawing-in, twisting-in, and repair activities.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
