List of Career Duties Under Knitting Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER KNITTING BUSINESS SECTOR
Dyer 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 .
Dyer Assistant Career Duties
- Verify color of hosiery dye lots against standard and modifies dyeing process on basis of knowledge of dyes dyeing time
- Pass sample hose from each dye lot through steam to fix color
- Compare color with master sample approves lot if color matches standard
- Determine dyeing time weighs out additional dyes or reducing agents for lots not meeting specifications
- May assist Dyer, Supervisor knitting, tex
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Extractor Career Duties
- Tend machine that untwists extracts water or chemicals from knit tubing after bleaching, washing, and dyeing, and applies finish to tubing preparatory to drying
- Position containers of wet knit tubing on turntable of machine
- Turn thumbscrews to adjust width of spreader, according to specifications
- Thread tubing through tension rollers around spreader, and ties end of tubing to leader
- Turn handwheel to regulate pressure on squeeze rollers
- Turn valve to admit finishing solution into trough of machine
- Start machine observes operation to detect twists in knit tubing
- Revolve turntable from which tubing is fed to untwist tubing
- Measure width of tubing with hand rule to verify conformance to standards
- Doff tubing from swing-folding attachment
- May mix finishing solution, following formula.
Finisher Career Duties
- Tend machine that stretches sets circular knitted cloth knit tubing to uniform width
- Turn screws to adjust width of spreader according to specifications
- Turn valves to admit steam into steam box that sets stretched cloth
- Thread cloth over feed guide rollers, around spreader, through steam box, and between pressure rolls, and wraps end of cloth around takeup roll or guides end through swing-folding attachment
- Start machine observes flow of cloth to detect cloth defects, like dirt, dye streaks, and holes
- Cuts defects from cloth, using shears
- Measure width of calendered cloth with hand rule
- Cuts calendered cloth with shears or automatic cutter attached to machine doffs rolls of cloth from machine
- May lower top pressure roller to press cloth
- May attach identification tag to end of cloth bolt
- May tend calender fed from rolls, handtruck, or another machine.
Fixer Boarding Room Career Duties
- Sets up and adjusts machines and equipment used to shape and dry hose, using knowledge of machine function boarding Ii process
- Turn valves to admit steam to drying cabinet or boarding forms
- Change toe boards or boarding forms according to size of hose being processed, using key handtools
- Observe gauges during boarding and turns valves to increase or decrease steam pressure temperature of drying chamber or boarding forms, according to type of hose being boarded
- Replace worn or broken parts, like conveyors, boarding forms, and electric motors, using handtools.
Fleecer Career Duties
- Tend machine that raises nap on socks to produce woolly appearance
- Start machine feeds socks into rollers that automatically position socks under revolving wire-covered cylinder for brushing
- Remove napped socks from machine
- Examine socks to define if nap has been raised according to specifications notifies fixer of machine malfunction
- May turn handwheel to adjust height of cylinder according to sock thickness.
Folding machine Operator Career Duties
- Tend machine that stretches sets circular knitted cloth knit tubing to uniform width
- Turn screws to adjust width of spreader according to specifications
- Turn valves to admit steam into steam box that sets stretched cloth
- Thread cloth over feed guide rollers, around spreader, through steam box, and between pressure rolls, and wraps end of cloth around takeup roll or guides end through swing-folding attachment
- Start machine observes flow of cloth to detect cloth defects, like dirt, dye streaks, and holes
- Cuts defects from cloth, using shears
- Measure width of calendered cloth with hand rule
- Cuts calendered cloth with shears or automatic cutter attached to machine doffs rolls of cloth from machine
- May lower top pressure roller to press cloth
- May attach identification tag to end of cloth bolt
- May tend calender fed from rolls, handtruck, or another machine.
Garment Steamer Career Duties
- Tend machine that removes wrinkles from knitted garments with steam hot air
- Hang garments on studs of revolving disk of machine
- Start machine that subjects garments to steam spray hot air as disk revolves
- Remove stacks steamed garments on table.
Grey Inspector Career Duties
- Inspect unfinished hose or socks for defects conformance to specifications
- Draw hose or socks over inspection board inspects items for defects, like holes, runs, torn threads, dropped stitches and defective looping or seaming
- Turn form to inspect both sides of items
- Clip loose threads from items, using scissors or electric clipper with suction attachment that removes loose threads
- Strip items from board if board is not equipped with automatic turning stripping device
- Sort items according to type of imperfection
- Mark production ticket
- May bag first quality items for dyeing
- May mark defective area of items for mending, using crayon
- May inspect items conveyed by pneumatic tube to inspection station and press control to stop flag specific machine causing defects in items
- May depress pedal to rotate inspection board during inspection of items
- Where inspection is performed after each operation, may be designated Knitting Inspector knitting , Looping Inspector knitting , Seaming Inspector knitting
- May be designated according to type of item inspected as Sock Examiner knitting .
Hand Crocheter 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.