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A professional who assists knitting-machine operator to knit cloth. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machines and ties yarn ends from each supply cone to yarn ends on exhausted cones.
* Cuts knitted cloth with shears and doffs cloth rolls from machines.
* Trucks cloth rolls from knitting area.
* Replaces broken knitting machine needles, using needle pliers, wrench, and screwdriver.
* Cleans machine and work area, using airhose, rags, and brooms and performs other duties described under helper master title.
* May be designated according to worker assisted as circular-knitter helper; flat-knitter helper; tie-knitter helper; warp-knitter helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines cloth for knitting defects and rejects cloth not meeting specifications.
* Measures cloth and sews thread marker into material to indicate length required by specifications.
* Folds and ties inspected cloth with cord.
* Records routing information on paper and attaches paper to cloth.
* May mark knitting defects on cloth with chalk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who folds cuffs preparatory to sewing cuffs to sleeves of knitted garments. Responsibilities include:
* Lays flat cuff on table and folds cuff in half or pulls tubular cuff over cone-shaped form and turns cuff half-way back, matching edges.
* Stacks folded cuffs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who folds cuffs preparatory to sewing cuffs to sleeves of knitted garments. Responsibilities include:
* Lays flat cuff on table and folds cuff in half or pulls tubular cuff over cone-shaped form and turns cuff half-way back, matching edges.
* Stacks folded cuffs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds lace on cards. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts card in machine holder with end of lace next to margin and manually turns card to start winding.
* Depresses pedal to start machine and control speed, guiding lace across card until specified number of layers are wound.
* Examines lace for defects during winding and rejects unsatisfactory material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loops stitches of ribbed garment parts on points of transfer bar to facilitate transfer of garment part to needles of knitting machine.
* Cuts several stitches and pulls yarn out by hand to unravel rows of surplus fabric between points and edge of fabric.
* May assist knitter, full-fashioned garment to doff machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with piercing textiles by means of rigid cutting tools advanced into the material to make, enlarge, or thread holes; shaping the material by means of rigid or rotary cutting tools; and otherwise giving shape or form to material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates automatic die-cutting machine to cut various specified shapes from roll of felt. Responsibilities include:
* Positions dies into machine, and aligns upper cutting die with surfaces of bed.
* Inserts shims between die and bed to set specified gap, and locks dies into position, using wrenches.
* Places rolls of felt in feed holders, turns knobs to synchronize action of feed rolls with ram, and threads end of felt through feed rolls and die bed to takeoff conveyor.
* Starts machine and inspects sample cuts to determine conformity to specifications.
* May sew or glue together ends of rolls to form continuous feed.
* When cutting specified shapes from rolls of foam rubber, may be designated automatic die-cutting-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates automatic die-cutting machine to cut various specified shapes from roll of felt. Responsibilities include:
* Positions dies into machine, and aligns upper cutting die with surfaces of bed.
* Inserts shims between die and bed to set specified gap, and locks dies into position, using wrenches.
* Places rolls of felt in feed holders, turns knobs to synchronize action of feed rolls with ram, and threads end of felt through feed rolls and die bed to takeoff conveyor.
* Starts machine and inspects sample cuts to determine conformity to specifications.
* May sew or glue together ends of rolls to form continuous feed.
* When cutting specified shapes from rolls of foam rubber, may be designated automatic die-cutting-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with electric knife or rotary shear that cuts cloth into specified lengths and folds lengths for use in making bags. Responsibilities include:
* Places roll of cloth on brackets of machine and threads cloth between feed rollers or sews cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Cuts cloth, using either of following methods:
* (1) Moves slotted bar specified distance from folding bar to obtain length of cut and tightens setscrew to secure bar.
* Starts machine that moves cloth over slotted bar.
* Pushes electric knife along slot to cut cloth into lengths.
* (2) Changes gears of machine, using wrenches, or turns dial to set feeding speed of machine that controls length of cut.
* Starts machine that automatically cuts cloth into lengths, folds lengths, and deposits folded cloth on catch-bar of machine.
* Periodically removes folded cloth accumulated on catch-bar and stacks cloth on handtruck.
* Measures cloth lengths, using rule.
* Records yardage cut.
* May be designated according to type of bag cut as cotton-bag-cutting-machine operator; jute-bag-cutting-machine operator; waterproof-bag-cutting-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
