- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in making padding. Responsibilities include:
* Carries or trucks bats i, burlap, and size to machines, lifts bats to feed holder of machine and fills tanks with size.
* Laps gauze over pads, using rod.
* Stamps identification on pads.
* Removes finished pads or waste from conveyor and places pads or waste in boxes.
* May assist operators to set up machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in making padding. Responsibilities include:
* Carries or trucks bats i, burlap, and size to machines, lifts bats to feed holder of machine and fills tanks with size.
* Laps gauze over pads, using rod.
* Stamps identification on pads.
* Removes finished pads or waste from conveyor and places pads or waste in boxes.
* May assist operators to set up machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds machines that strip unused yarn or roving from packages (bobbins, pirns, and quills). Responsibilities include:
* Dumps packages in hopper of machine, using chain hoist, or feeds individual packages into machine that strips yarn or roving from packages with knives, brushes, or compressed air.
* Presses button to start machine.
* Pushes or pulls packages with rake or rod to regulate flow of packages from hopper onto feed conveyor.
* Forces jammed packages into position for processing, using handtool, or removes jammed packages from machine.
* May dump packages into tumbler that removes yarn from packages by agitation, using chain hoist.
* May transfer cleaned packages to storage area, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes cut pieces of textile bag material from cutting machine and places material on handtruck.
* Measures random samples to determine if machine is cutting material as specified.
* Stops machine if cutting does not meet specifications and notifies cutting-machine operator.
* Folds bags if machine is not automatic.
* May be designated according to type of material handled as cotton-bag-cutting-machine offbearer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who doffs bobbins of yarn from spindles of spinning, twisting, or roving (slubber) frames. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes button to stop machine and depresses pedal to lower ring bar, allowing yarn to wind around base of spindle to facilitate restarting.
* Removes full bobbins of yarn from machine spindles, deposits yarn in handtruck, and places empty bobbins on spindles of machine.
* Releases pedal to raise ring bar, starts machine, and pieces up breaks in roving or ties breaks in yarn ends.
* Records information, such as doff time, date, and initials to complete company form.
* Applies grease or oil to rings, using finger or oilcan.
* May change travelers.
* May brush waste from machine.
* May be designated according to machine doffed as slubber doffer; spinning doffer; twister doffer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces sliver cans or bobbins to change type of sliver, roving, or yarn to be run on slubber, speeder, spinning, or twisting frames.
* Threads end of sliver, roving, or yarn through rollers and guides of machine.
* May change gears or travelers on spinning frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds and unloads various machines that winnow, shred, fluff, card, spin, or otherwise process animal hair performing any of following duties. Responsibilities include:
* Opens bales of hair and places hair in hopper.
* Forks hair into hopper by hand.
* Hand feeds hair rope stock into machine.
* Unloads bales, mats, rope stock, or other products from machines.
* Cleans machines and work area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears rolls of nonwoven fabric (blanketing) from stitch-bonding machine. Responsibilities include:
* Observes fabric winding into rolls to detect defects.
* Cuts defective fabric from roll, using scissors, and joins ends together with needle and thread.
* Doffs full rolls, using chain hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inserts bobbins of filling into shuttles.
* Threads yarn end through each shuttle eye and loads threaded shuttles into loom magazine.
* May replenish yarn supply on narrow fabric looms and be designated quill changer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who creels and doffs stitch-bonding machines. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts rolls of bat on machine supply racks.
* Reports machine malfunctions to maintenance personnel.
* Doffs rolls following stitching and weighs and records weight of rolls.
* Cleans machine area, using airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
