- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in weaving cloth. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares and issues instructions to drawing-in department, indicating harness size, number of harnesses required, type of heddles, number of warp ends per inch, and sequence in which warp ends are to be drawn through harness and reed.
* Prepares loom change instructions indicating changes in loom shedding, picking, beating-up, warp letoff, and cloth takeup motions according to weaving design.
* Scans cloth during weaving for defects in yarn, design, and loom setup.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting, lacing, and duplicating pattern cards used to control weaving operations of jacquard looms: analyzes customer orders and design drafts (pattern diagrams) to determine number of pattern chains required to meet production schedule.
* Directs workers to cut and lace new pattern chains or to duplicate specified patterns.
* Trains workers in cutting, lacing, and duplicating operations.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who teaches workers to operate looms, employing knowledge of weaving techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Explains application and utilization of drawing-in draft. Identifies and describes functions of loom parts to familiarize trainee with loom.
* Demonstrates weaving techniques, such as tying weaver's knot, threading shuttle, loading loom magazine or battery, and drawing-in broken warp threads.
* Examines work of trainees to detect defective weaving and suggests methods to correct defective work.
* Recommends transfer from trainee status to weaver as trainees become proficient.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up braiding machines to produce braid of specified size, style, or design, according to analysis of samples or pattern-card guides. Responsibilities include:
* Studies guide or sample to determine machine settings and size, color, and arrangement of yarn on carrier spindles.
* Changes gears to set up machine for flat or tubular braid, using handtools.
* Removes or replaces carrier spindles to alter crossing order of threads.
* Adjusts let-off motion to control closeness of threads.
* Replaces weights in carrier spindles or adjusts springs to control thread tension for different styles.
* Tends machine and examines braid to verify setup.
* Records settings made for new styles or designs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up braiding machines to produce braid of specified size, style, or design, according to analysis of samples or pattern-card guides. Responsibilities include:
* Studies guide or sample to determine machine settings and size, color, and arrangement of yarn on carrier spindles.
* Changes gears to set up machine for flat or tubular braid, using handtools.
* Removes or replaces carrier spindles to alter crossing order of threads.
* Adjusts let-off motion to control closeness of threads.
* Replaces weights in carrier spindles or adjusts springs to control thread tension for different styles.
* Tends machine and examines braid to verify setup.
* Records settings made for new styles or designs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up looms equipped with pile-wire mechanism to weave piled carpeting and repairs looms to ensure production conforms to quality standards, employing knowledge of weaving and loom construction. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects loom of woven carpeting to determine adjustments or repairs needed.
* Repairs or replaces defective parts, using handtools and precision instruments.
* Changes gears on pile-wire mechanism to alter number of pile wires inserted into shed to correspond with number of picks per inch, following charts.
* Synchronizes motion of pile wires with motion of lathe, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects sample cloth swatches for weaving defects and adjusts setup of loom, using knowledge of weaving, to correct cause of defects. Responsibilities include:
* Examines loom to detect mistakes in setup, such as defective drawing-in, filling, and warp.
* Compares swatch of first woven cloth with standard swatch, using pick counter and flashlight equipped with magnifying lens, to detect defects in style, yarn, weaving, or color.
* Determines adjustments needed to correct defects and makes adjustments or notifies loom fixer.
* Examines swatch from cloth woven after adjustments.
* Records number of swatches examined and defects detected.
* May boil swatch to remove size to permit examination of threads.
* May dye swatch or have swatch dyed to ascertain dye retention of threads and to detect weaving defects.
* May test warp tensions, using tensiometer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up loom to change pattern of cloth woven, according to work order and supervisor instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Removes warp beam, harnesses, drop wires, and reed, using handtools.
* Inspects loom components, such as gears, cams, stop-motion devices, and shuttle-throwing assembly to determine adjustments needed.
* Repairs defective components and adjusts tension and timing of loom parts, using handtools.
* Positions full warp beam, harnesses, drop wires, reed, and pattern chain on loom.
* Levels and aligns shuttle boxes and reed.
* Ties group of warp ends to cloth beam.
* Pieces up thread breaks.
* Redraws threads through harness to correct misdraws, using reed hook. May clean and oil loom.
* May remove and replace shuttle-box assembly, using handtools.
* May repair pattern control device on looms that weave cloth with patterns.
* May start loom and inspect woven cloth to detect defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up loom to change pattern of cloth woven, according to work order and supervisor instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Removes warp beam, harnesses, drop wires, and reed, using handtools.
* Inspects loom components, such as gears, cams, stop-motion devices, and shuttle-throwing assembly to determine adjustments needed.
* Repairs defective components and adjusts tension and timing of loom parts, using handtools.
* Positions full warp beam, harnesses, drop wires, reed, and pattern chain on loom.
* Levels and aligns shuttle boxes and reed.
* Ties group of warp ends to cloth beam.
* Pieces up thread breaks.
* Redraws threads through harness to correct misdraws, using reed hook. May clean and oil loom.
* May remove and replace shuttle-box assembly, using handtools.
* May repair pattern control device on looms that weave cloth with patterns.
* May start loom and inspect woven cloth to detect defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines loom parts, warp and filling thread, and cloth being woven to ensure that loom is set up to weave specified pattern. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects pattern chains, order in which warp threads are drawn through harness assembly, and color of warp and filling thread to detect errors in loom setup.
* Makes adjustments such as changing pattern chains and redrawing warp threads.
* Starts loom and examines cloth being woven to detect defects.
* Determines cause of defective weaving and makes adjustments or notifies loom fixer.
* Notifies weaver to continue operation of loom after adjustment.
Industry:Professional careers
