List of Career Duties Under Knitting Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER KNITTING BUSINESS SECTOR
Crocheter Career Duties
- Operate machine to crochet trimmings on knitted garments
- Select spools of thread according to specifications, or color of garment and mounts spools on holder of machine
- Thread needle yarn carrier or looper of machine
- Depress pedal to clamp edge of material under presser foot of machine
- Start machine guides material under crocheting needle
- Stop machine, turns handwheel to raise needle from garment, and cuts threads with scissors.
Crocheter Hand Career Duties
- Crochet edges, seams, and decorative pieces for garments, using crochet needles yarn
- May crochet coverings for buckle frames, buttons and other similar trimmings.
Cuff Folder Career Duties
- Fold cuffs preparatory to sewing cuffs to sleeves of knitted garments
- Lays flat cuff on table and folds cuff in half or pulls tubular cuff over cone-shaped form turns cuff half-way back, matching edges
Cuff Turner Career Duties
- Fold cuffs preparatory to sewing cuffs to sleeves of knitted garments
- Lays flat cuff on table and folds cuff in half or pulls tubular cuff over cone-shaped form turns cuff half-way back, matching edges
Darner Career Duties
- Mend defects in hosiery, panty hose, or leotards tights , like holes, runs, and pulled threads, using one or combination of following methods
- 1 Sews holes with needle thread
- 2 Stretches portion of hose containing hole or run over mending cup & secures one end of broken thread, using needle thread
- Reknit dropped stitch or run, using latch needle
- Baste across other end of broken thread
- Clip loose threads from hose with scissors
- 3 Stretches hose over mending cup moves powered-mending device across hose to return picked or pulled thread to position
- Pull hose on inspection form or over mending cup to locate defects
- May smooth fix mend, using electric iron
- May be designated Greige Mender knitting when repairing undyed hose or Finish Mender knitting if repairing dyed hose.
Drier Tender Career Duties
- Tend machine that stretches dries knitted material
- Insert spreader of specified width into material
- Pull end of material through drying chamber equipped with fans inserts material between feed rolls of machine
- Start fans which circulate heat and rolls which pull wet material over spreader and through chamber to stretch dry knitted material.
Drum dyeing machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend machines that dye and finish knitted garments, like hosiery sweaters
- Turn valves to admit water steam into machine to specified level
- Pour dye, cleaning agents, or finishing chemicals into machine
- Turn thermostat and timing device to set temperature dyeing time, according to formula
- Place garments in compartments of machine starts machine
- Periodically examines garments from each dye or finish lot to detect variations from processing standards
- Adds dye, reducing agent, or finishing chemicals, according to instructions, if standard is not matched
- Drain solution from machine at end of dyeing or finishing cycle
- Remove dyed or finished garments to handtruck labels each lot
- May tend extractor [Extractor Operator any industry 581.685-038]
- May weigh or measure cleaning agents chemicals
- May be designated according to type of machine used as Paddle-Dyeing-Machine Operator knitting , Rotary-Drum Dyer knitting .
Drying machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend machine that dries preboarded dyed hose in perforated trays
- Remove folded hose from dye bag smooths out wrinkles
- Place hose into tray of drying machine pushes filled tray into drying cabinet
- Pull tray from cabinet after hose have dried for specified time
- Remove stacks hose on tray for pairing.
Drying machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend machine that stretches dries knitted material
- Insert spreader of specified width into material
- Pull end of material through drying chamber equipped with fans inserts material between feed rolls of machine
- Start fans which circulate heat and rolls which pull wet material over spreader and through chamber to stretch dry knitted material.
Dye lab Technician Career Duties
- Dyes knitted socks and sample cloth, according to dye formulae, using sample dyeing equipment steam table for verification that products conform to company specifications
- Compute quantity of dyes required for machine of specified capacity, using desk calculator dye formula
- Gather, weighs, measures and mixes dyes chemicals, using scales, graduated cylinders, measuring cup and titration cylinder
- Dyes individual socks, using steam table
- Flip switches and turns valves and handwheel to prepare sample tub dye bath and adds specified quantities of acid & dye, to achieve required pH level & specifications for dye contrast & color intensity, to prepare sample cloth sock to be inspected
- Press buttons to activate and deactivate drum of extractor to remove excess moisture from machine dyed sample cloth
- Submit dyed sample to supervisor for inspection.
