- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who reassembles washed laundry according to lot number or individual customer's bundles preparatory to subsequent processing, such as tumbling, starching, or ironing. Respnsibilities include:
* Compares pin number on nets of laundry to numbers on laundry ticket and hangs nets in bins, or slides key-tag onto key-tag holder to assemble lots.
* Counts key-tags on holder or compares count of nets in bin to count of pin numbers written on laundry ticket to verify completed assembly.
* Loads assembled lots in basket trucks for delivery to other work stations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares laundry for processing and distributes laundry, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens bundles of soiled laundry.
* Places bundles onto conveyor belt or drops down chute for distribution to marking and classification sections.
* Weighs laundry on scales and records weight on tickets.
* Removes bundles from conveyor and distributes to workers, using handtruck.
* Fastens identification pins or clips onto laundry to facilitate subsequent assembly of customers' orders.
* Sorts net bags containing clean wash according to customers' identification tags.
* Sorts empty net bags according to color and size.
* Collects identification tags from lots of laundered articles for reuse.
* Moistens clean wash preparatory to ironing.
* Operates power hoist to load and unload washing machines and extractors.
* Stacks linen supplies on storage room shelves.
* Unloads soiled linen from trucks.
* May be designated according to duties performed as Bundle Weigher; Chute Worker; Clipper; Linen-Supply-Room Worker; Net Sorter.
* May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
* Pin Sorter And Bagger; Pin Worker; Washing-Machine Loader II.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares laundry for processing and distributes laundry, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens bundles of soiled laundry.
* Places bundles onto conveyor belt or drops down chute for distribution to marking and classification sections.
* Weighs laundry on scales and records weight on tickets.
* Removes bundles from conveyor and distributes to workers, using handtruck.
* Fastens identification pins or clips onto laundry to facilitate subsequent assembly of customers' orders.
* Sorts net bags containing clean wash according to customers' identification tags.
* Sorts empty net bags according to color and size.
* Collects identification tags from lots of laundered articles for reuse.
* Moistens clean wash preparatory to ironing.
* Operates power hoist to load and unload washing machines and extractors.
* Stacks linen supplies on storage room shelves.
* Unloads soiled linen from trucks.
* May be designated according to duties performed as Bundle Weigher; Chute Worker; Clipper; Linen-Supply-Room Worker; Net Sorter.
* May be designated. Respnsibilities include:
* Pin Sorter And Bagger; Pin Worker; Washing-Machine Loader II.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grades laundered towels and similar linens according to quality, condition, and kind of item.
* Ties them into bundles of specified size or number of articles and records contents of each bundle.
* Stores bundles in bins for delivery to customers of linen-rental service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shakes out semidry wearing apparel to prepare it for ironing, sorting, or folding.
* Inspects articles for tears or missing buttons, and routes damaged articles to repair department.
* Sorts, folds, and stacks articles on handtrucks or hangs them on moving conveyor.
* May starch shirt collars and cuffs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who washes articles, such as curtains, table linens, and lingerie by hand. Respnsibilities include:
* Soaps and rubs articles, and rinses them in chemical solutions and clear water.
* Extracts excess moisture with hand wringer or tends small extractor.
* Hangs articles on racks to dry.
* May immerse articles in tint or dye solutions to restore color.
* May operate small machines to wash articles.
* May wash and card blankets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who identifies stains in wool, synthetic, and silk garments and household fabrics and applies chemical solutions to remove stains, determining spotting procedures on basis of type of fabric and nature of stain. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads article on worktable and positions stain over vacuum head or on marble slab.
* Sprinkles chemical solvents over stain and pats area with brush or sponge until stain is removed.
* Applies chemicals to neutralize effect of solvents.
* Sprays steam, water, or air over spot to flush out chemicals and dry garment.
* Applies bleaching powder to spot and sprays with steam to remove stains from certain fabrics which do not respond to other cleaning solvents.
* May mix bleaching agent with hot water in vats and soak material until bleached.
* May operate drycleaning machine.
* May be designated according to type of material spotted as Silk Spotter; Wool Spotter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates dry cleaning machine to clean garments, drapes, and other materials, utilizing knowledge of cleaning processes, fabrics, and colors. Respnsibilities include:
* Sorts articles, places lot of sorted articles in drum of dry cleaning machine.
* Fastens cover and starts drum rotating.
* Turns or pushes valves, levers, and switches to admit cleaning solvent into drum.
* Adds liquid soap or chemicals to facilitate cleaning process.
* Tends extractor that removes excess cleaning solvent from articles.
* Tends tumbler that dries articles and removes odor of solvent from articles.
* Opens valves of dry cleaning machine to drain dirty solvent into filter tank.
* Adds chemicals to solvent to facilitate filtration, and starts electric pumps, forcing solvent through filters to screen lint, dirt, and other impurities.
* Pulls sludge box from bottom of tank to remove sludge.
* Starts electric pumps and turns valves to operate distilling system that reclaims dirty solvent.
* May operate dry cleaning machine that automatically extracts excess cleaning solvent from articles.
* May clean by hand articles that cannot be cleaned by machine because of amount of soil on article or delicacy of fabric.
* May add chemicals to dry cleaning machine to render garments water repellant.
* May spot articles.
Industry:Professional careers
