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artificial leather calender operator

A professional who tends calender machine that compresses cloth and coated cloth sheeting to produce artificial leather fabric. Respnsibilities include:

  • Changes cloth rolls on letoff rack and windup racks, and threads sheeting through calender rollers with assistance of general laborer.
  • Scrapes surfaces of fiber rollers to remove foreign material.
  • Sews ends of cloth rolls together to form continuous sheet, using sewing machine.
  • Inspects sheeting being calendered to detect turned edges, material defects, or uneven coating.
  • Applies gummed tape to holes, faulty seams, or frayed edges, and smooths wrinkles.
  • Applies soap solution to roller to remove surface depressions, and starts calender to dry rollers by friction.
  • May be designated according to processing stage as raw-calender operator; second-calender operator; third-calender operator.
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