- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that glues together strands of paper twine to form tape used for tying packages. Responsibilities include:
* Places bobbins of twine on creel.
* Threads ends of twine through guides, glue rollers, and dryer, and fastens tape to reel.
* Turns drier thermostat knob to regulate temperature.
* Starts machine and monitors operation to ensure uniform gluing and drying.
* May adjust printing device to imprint specified data on tape.
* May adjust guides to regulate width of tape.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that makes tassels for use on draperies and tapestries. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts braid strip to which tassels will be tied into machine and fills tube in machine with mixture of rayon and cotton.
* Depresses pedal to start machine.
* Removes automatically ejected tassels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically embroiders designs on fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Threads roll of perforated cardboard that controls stitching operation through guide rollers and attaches end to automatic control mechanism or inserts punched cards in machine.
* Aligns pointers on cloth frame with marks on machine chassis to position frame within prescribed stitching action limits.
* Turns handwheel to make first stitch, observing needle and shuttle action, thread tension, and alignment of stitch.
* Makes needed adjustments, such as replacing or rethreading needles and inserting new shuttles.
* Starts machine.
* May be designated according to product embroidered as automat frame goods watcher; automat long goods watcher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically embroiders designs on fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Threads roll of perforated cardboard that controls stitching operation through guide rollers and attaches end to automatic control mechanism or inserts punched cards in machine.
* Aligns pointers on cloth frame with marks on machine chassis to position frame within prescribed stitching action limits.
* Turns handwheel to make first stitch, observing needle and shuttle action, thread tension, and alignment of stitch.
* Makes needed adjustments, such as replacing or rethreading needles and inserting new shuttles.
* Starts machine.
* May be designated according to product embroidered as automat frame goods watcher; automat long goods watcher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that reproduces embroidery designs on fabric. Responsibilities include:
* Stretches lengths of fabric on machine or clamps frames of fabric onto machine.
* Replaces broken needles and threads, threads needles, and locks needles in holders.
* Aligns pantograph mechanism, starts machine, and observes operation.
* Marks stitching errors with pins or tape.
* May pin applique on fabric to obtain variation in design.
* May fill and replace shuttles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with air-jet chambers through which continuous filament yarn is processed to change texture and increase bulk of yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine and threads yarn ends through machine guides, over feed rollers, air-jet chambers, tension guides, and drop wires. Loops end of yarn around takeup spool.
* Turns valve to start compressed air through jets to blow loops into yarn filaments, changing physical structure of yarn.
* Observes processing of yarn to detect breaks in yarn and filled takeup spools.
* Ties broken yarn ends.
* Pulls lever to stop spindle and doffs full package.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade name of texturing process or machine used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with air-jet chambers through which continuous filament yarn is processed to change texture and increase bulk of yarn. Responsibilities include:
* Creels machine and threads yarn ends through machine guides, over feed rollers, air-jet chambers, tension guides, and drop wires. Loops end of yarn around takeup spool.
* Turns valve to start compressed air through jets to blow loops into yarn filaments, changing physical structure of yarn.
* Observes processing of yarn to detect breaks in yarn and filled takeup spools.
* Ties broken yarn ends.
* Pulls lever to stop spindle and doffs full package.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade name of texturing process or machine used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends toe-punching machine that flattens toe seams of knitted seamless socks, and turns socks right-side out. Responsibilities include:
* Slides socks over machine mandrel wrong-side out, aligns toe seam of socks across end of mandrel, and moves lever to activate punch that strikes end of mandrel to flatten toe seam of socks.
* Inserts hand through opening at end of mandrel, and strips socks from mandrel right-side out.
* Inserts socks into pneumatic tube for collection in bags.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends any machine in carding department used in converting cotton and synthetic raw stock into laps, sliver, and roving, working as replacement for absent worker. Responsibilities include:
* Tends picking machine that cleans and transforms cotton raw stock into laps.
* Tends cotton carding machine that cleans lap and transforms remaining fibers into sliver.
* Tends breaker and finish drawing frame that draws out and combines sliver into one of uniform size and weight.
* Tends lap winder that combines several slivers into lap roll for use on combing machines.
* Tends synthetic fiber carding machine that opens and transforms raw stock into sliver.
* Tends combing machine that cleans lap rolls and transforms remaining fibers into sliver.
* Tends roving frame that draws out and slightly twists sliver into roving.
* Feeds bobbin-stripping machine that strips excess roving from bobbins.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends any machine in carding department used in converting cotton and synthetic raw stock into laps, sliver, and roving, working as replacement for absent worker. Responsibilities include:
* Tends picking machine that cleans and transforms cotton raw stock into laps.
* Tends cotton carding machine that cleans lap and transforms remaining fibers into sliver.
* Tends breaker and finish drawing frame that draws out and combines sliver into one of uniform size and weight.
* Tends lap winder that combines several slivers into lap roll for use on combing machines.
* Tends synthetic fiber carding machine that opens and transforms raw stock into sliver.
* Tends combing machine that cleans lap rolls and transforms remaining fibers into sliver.
* Tends roving frame that draws out and slightly twists sliver into roving.
* Feeds bobbin-stripping machine that strips excess roving from bobbins.
Industry:Professional careers
