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U.S. Department of Labor
Settore: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who tends equipment that steams and dries fiber mats to untwist yarns and impart fuller surface to mat. Respnsibilities include: * Adjusts steam valves to regulate flow of spray on mats. * Pushes button to start conveyor that moves mats through steam and drying cabinets. * Loads mats on conveyor and observes thermometers and adjusts controls to maintain specified temperature in cabinets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends vacuum drier that removes moisture from felt pads. Respnsibilities include: * Pushes dollies loaded with pads into tunnel of drying chamber. * Lifts pads onto drying racks. * Closes airtight doors and starts vacuum pumps and electric fans. * Opens steam valves to adjust heat of drying chamber to specified temperature. * Loads dried pads on dollies for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that spins felt hat bodies to remove excess water. Respnsibilities include: * Pulls bodies over hat-shaped holder of machine or places bodies in basket. * Presses button or depresses pedal to start holder or basket spinning, removing excess water from bodies. * Releases pedal to stop machine and feels hat bodies to ascertain dryness. * May soak hat bodies in waterproofing solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment in dry room that winds coated fabrics into rolls. Respnsibilities include: * Aligns track-mounted windup rack with dry room alley to receive coated cloth. * Cleans foreign material from water-cooled rollers, using rag, solvent, and scraper. * Threads cloth from dry room through rollers, and sews cloth to leader on windup core, using automatic sewing machine. * Adjusts control to synchronize winding tension with cloth feed to avoid wrinkles, turned edges, and tears. * Places cloth-support sticks on handtruck as sticks arrive from dry room. * Notifies supervisor of recurring coating defects. * Lifts finished roll from rack onto dolly, using hoist.
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A professional who tends equipment that dries felt strips, assisted by another worker. Respnsibilities include: * Removes work ticket from rolls of felt and records on ticket drying time and temperature required to dry felt. * Places felt rolls on holding fixture of drying chamber, and turns handcrank to adjust carrier rack of chamber to width of felt. * Unrolls felt and attaches edges of entire roll to spikes on both sides of carrier rack, using wooden hammer. * Pushes carrier rack with felt into drying chamber, closes chamber door, and turns valves to obtain specified steam pressure and temperature. * Presses button to start fan to circulate heat evenly in chamber, and turns dial of timer to set length of drying cycle, according to thickness of felt. * Observes gauges to maintain specified chamber temperature and steam pressure. * Closes steam valve and opens chamber door to cool drying chamber. * Feels felt to ascertain dryness. * Rerolls felt for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds loose, partly dried textile fibers into pipe through which fibers are blown to drier or storage bin.
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A professional who lays wet, freshly carroted pelts in trays on conveyor chain that carries pelts through heated drying chamber to prepare fur for manufacturing felt hats. * May push handtrucks loaded with skins into drying room and lay out skins on drying trays.
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A professional who feeds finished lasted shoes into drying chamber to dry and stiffen leather and shape shoes. Respnsibilities include: * Removes lasted shoes from bar racks and places shoes on racks having padded rests. * Starts conveyor track and pushes rack of shoes onto moving track that carries rack into drying chamber. * Removes rack at other end of chamber after specified time. * May set scale to adjust drying room temperature according to hygrometer readings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds feathers, used in stuffing mattresses, pillows, and cushions, into beating machine that removes dust and dirt from feathers and discharges feathers into bag. * Removes filled bag from machine outlet pipe and replaces filled bag with empty bag. * May feed feathers into machine that fluffs feathers preparatory to removal of dust and dirt.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads feathers, used for stuffing pillows and cushions, into steam-heated drying tank or centrifugal drier to dry feathers after washing. * Removes feathers from drier by hand or opens outlet valve.
Industry:Professional careers