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A professional who tests and adjusts tension of warp on looms or other textile machines, using tensiometer. Responsibilities include:
* Presses arm of tensiometer against several threads of warp and reads gauge.
* Removes or adds weights, or turns adjustment nut with wrench to adjust tension, according to specifications.
* May test accuracy of tensiometer with known weights and adjust tensiometer, using screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests and adjusts tension of warp on looms or other textile machines, using tensiometer. Responsibilities include:
* Presses arm of tensiometer against several threads of warp and reads gauge.
* Removes or adds weights, or turns adjustment nut with wrench to adjust tension, according to specifications.
* May test accuracy of tensiometer with known weights and adjust tensiometer, using screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with interlacing a strand of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops to make hosiery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates knitting machines to knit hose to shape of foot and leg. Responsibilities include:
* Places spools of yarn on spindles of machine and threads machine.
* Places welt rod in retaining notch of welt bar and turns lever to lower welt bar to knitting position.
* Pushes yarn carrier into position and turns bar to start machine to knit welt.
* Hooks draw-off straps from takeup roller to welt rod to hold welt and leg taut during knitting.
* Turns handwheels to position picot bar to knit stitches joining welt to leg of hose and to raise picot and welt bars after welt is knitted.
* Stops machine and clips loose threads at welt and toe of completed hose, using scissors.
* Removes welt rods and hose from machine.
* Counts, bundles, and attaches identifying ticket to hose.
* Replaces and aligns needles and points of machine, using pliers.
* May clean and oil machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects seamless hose for knitting defects and operates sewing machine to close openings in toes of hose. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls hose over inspection board to turn hose inside out and inspects hose for defects, such as holes, runs, and dropped stitches.
* Revolves inspection board by hand to inspect both sides of hose.
* Slides toe portion of hose off end of inspection board and positions toe of hose under presser foot of sewing machine.
* Presses pedal to start machine and guides toe of hose under needle of machine to close toe.
* Strips defective hose from inspection board by hand and places hose aside for mending.
* Pushes hose without defects from left to right off board, where hose is sucked through opening in end of board to turn hose right side out and stack hose in rack.
* Threads and cleans lint from sewing machine.
* May examine stitch markings on defective hose to identify malfunctioning knitting machines and flip switch under corresponding machine number on panelboard to stop machine and notify fixer.
* May attach toe of hose to mechanical device that automatically feeds toe of hose under needle of sewing machine to close toe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects unfinished hose or socks for defects and conformance to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Draws hose or socks over inspection board and inspects items for defects, such as holes, runs, torn threads, dropped stitches, and defective looping or seaming.
* Turns form to inspect both sides of items.
* Clips loose threads from items, using scissors or electric clipper with suction attachment that removes loose threads.
* Strips items from board if board is not equipped with automatic turning and stripping device.
* Sorts items according to type of imperfection.
* Marks production ticket.
* May bag first quality items for dyeing.
* May mark defective area of items for mending, using crayon.
* May inspect items conveyed by pneumatic tube to inspection station and press control to stop and flag specific machine causing defects in items.
* May depress pedal to rotate inspection board during inspection of items.
* May inspect items by hand.
* Where inspection is performed after each operation, may be designated knitting inspector; looping inspector; seaming inspector.
* May be designated according to type of item inspected as sock examiner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends circular knitting machines with automatic pattern controls that knit seamless hose. Responsibilities include:
* Places yarn spools on creel; threads and starts machine.
* Observes operation of machines and notifies knitting-machine fixer of any malfunction.
* Removes knitted hose from machines.
* Pulls hose over inspection form or over hand to examine for defects, such as holes, runs, or picks.
* Classifies hose according to specifications into grades, such as first quality, rejects, and mends.
* Counts, bundles, ties, and labels each grade of hose.
* Clips loose or connecting threads on or joining socks, using scissors.
* May measure overall length of hose, using scale on inspection form.
* May mark defective portion of hose for hosiery mender, using crayon.
* May be designated according to type of hose knitted as sock knitter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machine that clips threads, turns, and strips hose automatically. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls hose over forms that carry hose through machine.
* May strip hose from forms of machine that is not equipped with turning and stripping device.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, grades, and pairs finished surgical hose, panty hose, stockings, leotards, and socks, according to grade, color, size, and length. Responsibilities include:
* Spreads hose on pairing table or over inspection forms and examines hose for defects, such as pulls, snags, holes, mends, and dye streaks.
* Classifies hose into grades, following specifications.
* Positions graded hose over scale on table to measure overall length and length of toe, foot, heel, and welt.
* Selects pair of identical hose of same grade and stacks hose on table.
* Tallies each pair in lot by grade.
* May be designated according to grade or type hose paired as odds pairer; substandard pairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects samples of surgical hose, panty hose, stockings, leotards, and socks of specified styles, or samples previously examined by pairers, to ensure that specifications are met.
* Records findings on each sample, noting quantity and types of defects found and whether sample met specifications.
* May train and supervise pairers.
* May inform supervisors and workers responsible for defective samples.
Industry:Professional careers
