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A professional who reconditions and prepares harness frames for looms preparatory to drawing-in or storage. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects and replaces damaged heddles, slide rods, side hooks, and frame hooks.
* Removes or inserts heddles in harness frame for change in cloth style, according to pattern.
* Counts, measures with gauge, or connects harness to electric counting machine to determine number of heddles.
* Spaces heddles in sections between heddle rod hooks.
* May clean harnesses.
* May convey harnesses to drawing-in department, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles pattern chains that control movement of harness frames and shuttle boxes during weaving. Responsibilities include:
* Arranges rolls and separator tubes on cross bars of links, according to pattern diagram, and connects links, using handtools.
* May hammer or screw pegs in wooden pattern chain.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines warp threads in loom harness to determine if they are drawn in according to pattern chart. Responsibilities include:
* Turns wheel on head of loom to raise harness frames, and inspects threads drawn through frames to detect mistakes.
* Redraws threads through drop wires, heddle eyes, and reed dents to correct misdraws, using reed hook.
* May start loom and examine woven cloth for defects caused by misdraws, correct misdraws, and mark defects in cloth, using chalk or thread.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines warp threads in loom harness to determine if they are drawn in according to pattern chart. Responsibilities include:
* Turns wheel on head of loom to raise harness frames, and inspects threads drawn through frames to detect mistakes.
* Redraws threads through drop wires, heddle eyes, and reed dents to correct misdraws, using reed hook.
* May start loom and examine woven cloth for defects caused by misdraws, correct misdraws, and mark defects in cloth, using chalk or thread.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects woven belting and webbing to detect weaving defects and variations from specified size and quality. Responsibilities include:
* Counts number of warp and filling threads per square inch, using pick counter.
* Measures width and gauge of belting, using ruler and calipers.
* Examines belting for knotted, loose, or broken threads.
* Rejects belting not meeting specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to punch holes in jacquard loom pattern cards, following design draft (pattern diagram). Responsibilities include:
* Clamps paper design draft to frame on front of machine, and positions blank pattern cards in guide under punches (cutting dies).
* Places automatic marker in line with first row of design marks.
* Engages clutch to start punching head.
* Presses keys that control cutting dies following arrangement of holes indicated on design draft.
* Compares punched card with pattern to detect cutting errors, and pastes squares of paper over holes punched in error.
* Numbers cards in consecutive order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to punch holes in jacquard loom pattern cards, following design draft (pattern diagram). Responsibilities include:
* Clamps paper design draft to frame on front of machine, and positions blank pattern cards in guide under punches (cutting dies).
* Places automatic marker in line with first row of design marks.
* Engages clutch to start punching head.
* Presses keys that control cutting dies following arrangement of holes indicated on design draft.
* Compares punched card with pattern to detect cutting errors, and pastes squares of paper over holes punched in error.
* Numbers cards in consecutive order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates battery of jacquard looms to weave multiple widths of intricately designed narrow fabrics, such as labels and ribbon. Responsibilities include:
* Observes weaving to detect exhausted filling packages and defects in cloth resulting from worn cards in pattern chain.
* Replaces exhausted filling packages and notifies card changer, jacquard loom of worn cards.
* Pulls out filling to remove defects in weaving.
* Pulls cord to reverse pattern chain and card cylinder so that weaving will resume at place where defect occurred to maintain pattern continuity.
* Replaces defective shuttles, tension springs, and shuttle eyes, using handtools.
* May operate loom equipped with automatic stop motions to stop loom as yarn breaks or after weaving specified number of picks.
* May draw-in warp yarn.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends shuttleless looms, equipped with filling-carrier needle, that weave narrow fabrics, such as ribbon, tape, and elastic. Responsibilities include:
* Places filling-yarn package on holders and threads ends through guides, tensions, and needle carriers, using hook.
* Presses button to start looms and patrols area to examine woven fabric for defects and to determine cause of loom stoppage, such as warp or filling breaks.
* Ties broken warp or filling ends.
* Notifies loom fixer of defective weaving caused by mechanical defects.
* Cuts or marks fabric when specified yardage has been woven and doffs loom or notifies cloth doffer.
* May thread warp yarn through harness to change weave pattern or replace warp.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends shuttleless looms, equipped with filling-carrier needle, that weave narrow fabrics, such as ribbon, tape, and elastic. Responsibilities include:
* Places filling-yarn package on holders and threads ends through guides, tensions, and needle carriers, using hook.
* Presses button to start looms and patrols area to examine woven fabric for defects and to determine cause of loom stoppage, such as warp or filling breaks.
* Ties broken warp or filling ends.
* Notifies loom fixer of defective weaving caused by mechanical defects.
* Cuts or marks fabric when specified yardage has been woven and doffs loom or notifies cloth doffer.
* May thread warp yarn through harness to change weave pattern or replace warp.
Industry:Professional careers
