- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates machine and equipment to stitch-bond synthetic fibers to scrim (webbing) to produce nonwoven fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Turns dials on control panel to regulate conveyor speeds, feed rate of scrim and fiber stock through machine, roll pressure, and steam in rollers.
* Adjust compression rollers following thickness specifications.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect defects, such as broken needles, folds or lines in webbing, and fabric contamination.
* Moves mechanism on hopper to regulate flow and weight of fiber stock feeding into machine.
* Replaces broken needles, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sewing machine to splice (join) ends of partially filled spools of tire cord. Responsibilities include:
* Places spools of spliced cord on spindles of machine that winds cord from one spool to another.
* Pushes and pulls sewing machine along overhead tracks to each machine spindle.
* Positions ends of cord under sewing head.
* Depresses pedal to activate machine and splice ends of cord together.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sewing machine to splice (join) ends of partially filled spools of tire cord. Responsibilities include:
* Places spools of spliced cord on spindles of machine that winds cord from one spool to another.
* Pushes and pulls sewing machine along overhead tracks to each machine spindle.
* Positions ends of cord under sewing head.
* Depresses pedal to activate machine and splice ends of cord together.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more automatic, multiple-needle sewing machines that quilt layers of material used to make articles, such as work gloves, quilts, or padding. Responsibilities include:
* Places supply packages on thread holders and draws ends through guides, tensions, and needle eyes, using tweezers.
* Inserts bobbins in shuttle and draws thread through guides and looper eyes.
* Pulls boxes of flatfolded material into feeding position or mounts rolls of material onto machine with aid of another worker, using chain hoist or electric lift truck.
* Threads ends of material under yardage counter and needles, and laps end around takeup rod.
* Starts machine and observes material sewn to detect broken threads, uneven edges or wrinkles, and defective stitching or stitch design.
* Rethreads needles, straightens edges of material layers, and regulates tension on material or thread, or notifies maintenance department to adjust machine or alter setup.
* Cuts material when specified yardage has been quilted, using hand shears or electric knife, and doffs roll.
* Replaces defective or broken needles.
* Feels needles to detect rough places and smooths rough area, using sandpaper.
* May unroll bolts of material onto machine table in specified order of layers and draw ends between feeder rollers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines fabric for weaving defects, using power-driven examining machine, and repairs defects, using burling iron (tweezers), needle and thread, tufting device, and scissors. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls fabric over rollers, down over inspection board, and wraps cloth end around powered takeup beam or tube.
* Depresses pedal to start machine that moves fabric over inspection board, and scans and feels fabric for defects, such as burls, slubs, loose threads, mispicks, defective pile or soils.
* Stops machine and trims loose threads with scissors and pulls out defective yarn and pile with burling iron.
* Reweaves mispicks and inserts pile or tufts as specified, using needle or tufting device.
* Removes soils from carpeting, using brush and cleaning chemicals.
* May record yardage inspected and repaired.
* May doff rolls of fabric from machine, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pulls thread through machine parts to arrange ends for stitch-bonding, according to company standards and instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts specified spools of thread on spindles and draws ends through guides and stop-motion devices, using hook.
* Observe threads to ensure ends are positioned as directed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who separates sections of tangled threads from salvaged beams to establish lease and strips defective filling from quills. Responsibilities include:
* Positions beam onto holding rack, using electric overhead chain hoist.
* Pulls and cuts knotted sections of yarn to align and separate layers of yarn on beam, using hand shears.
* Tapes yarn ends to secure alignment on beam prior to establishing lease.
* Separates alternating strands of yarn between thumb and index finger and places lease strings between sheds and repeats process to establish specified lease.
* Ties lease strings to secure yarn.
* Wraps protective paper around beam and attaches identifying tag to beam.
* Removes defective filling from quills.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically cuts bunch of yarn ends, ties ends with wire to loops woven in tape, and winds completed material on spools to form ball fringe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic power press, steam oven, and blowers that shrink threads and temper brass bobbins for use on levers lace machines. Responsibilities include:
* Loads yarn-filled bobbins on fixture posts, fastens cover in place, and positions loaded fixture on press bed.
* Pulls lever that lowers ram to compress thread and straighten bobbin.
* Tightens cover nut to prevent expansion when pressure is removed.
* Sets temperature controls and deposits damp cloths in oven to produce humidity.
* Places loaded fixture in oven to shrink threads and temper bobbin metal.
* Removes and cools fixture,, using blowers.
* Removes and delivers bobbins to threader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends stripper that removes thread residue from brass bobbins to prepare bobbins for rewinding. Responsibilities include:
* Loads bobbins on shaft of stripping device and ties thread ends to reel at bottom of stripper.
* Pulls lever to start device that strips thread from bobbins and winds thread onto reel.
* Removes bobbins from shaft and holds bobbins in front of light to detect thread particles clinging to base or sides of bobbin.
* Inserts searcher between disks to remove thread particles.
Industry:Professional careers
