Carder
Job Title: Carder
Carder Duties: Tends machine that stitches articles, such as hairpins, hooks and eyes, knitting needles, and snap fasteners, onto cards for sales presentation: Mounts cones of threads onto spindles and threads ends through guides. Stacks cards in gravity fed hopper. Starts machine and observes machine for jams as articles drop down feeder tubes […]
Mechanical Engineer
Job Title: Mechanical Engineer
Mechanical Engineer Duties: Researches, plans, and designs mechanical and electromechanical products and systems, and directs and coordinates activities involved in fabrication, operation, application, installation, and repair of mechanical or electromechanical products and systems: Researches and analyzes data, such as customer design proposal, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application. […]
Textile Screen Maker
Job Title: Screen Maker, Textile
Screen Maker, Textile Duties: Prepares stencils used in screen printing of textile materials: Assembles prefabricated parts to construct silk screen frame, using handtools and wing nuts. Clamps frame and silk screen material in stretching machine and activates machine that stretches screen material over frame. Glues screen to frame and cuts excess […]
Dovetail-Machine Operator
Job Title: Dovetail-Machine Operator
Dovetail-Machine Operator Duties: Tends machine that presses notched ends of boards together to form lock-corner box frame: Turns handwheels to adjust side and end pressure bars according to frame dimension. Positions boards on table and starts machine. Presses pedal to activate pressure bars that force notched ends of boards together, forming lock-corner […]
Hemmer
Job Title: Hemmer
Hemmer Duties: Operates sewing machine equipped with folding attachment to hem articles, such as curtains and draperies, gloves and mittens, sheets, towels, and pillowcases: Guides edge of material through folding attachment and under machine needle. Inserts and sews labels into hem. May reinforce hem by backstitching at ends of seam. May fold hem […]
Blending-Tank Tender
Job Title: Blending-Tank Tender
Blending-Tank Tender Duties: Tends equipment to blend citrus fruit juices: Opens valves to permit juices to flow from extractor machines to holding tanks. Fills blending tanks with required amounts of specified juices. Turns on mechanical agitators in blending tanks to mix contents, and pumps mixture to deoiling and pasteurizing machines.
Back Washer
Job Title: Back Washer
Back Washer Duties: Tends machine that washes, rinses, and dries sliver to remove impurities, excess dye, and odors: Places balls of sliver on spindles or floor, or sets cans of sliver at feed-end of machine. Pieces up sliver with strand left in machine or inserts end of sliver into machine that […]
Automatic Grinding-Machine Operator
Job Title: Grinding-Machine Operator, Automatic
Grinding-Machine Operator, Automatic Duties: Tends machine that removes bark (rough exterior of pearl-shell) from back of pearl button blanks, and levels back and face of blanks: Places blanks face-down on conveyor belt that feeds blanks between steel plate and abrasive wheel. Inverts blanks by hand, and repeats operation to level […]
Latexer I
Job Title: Latexer I
Latexer I Duties: Tends machine that applies latex coating to reverse sides of surgical elastic supports, such as wrist, knee, and elbow braces, to prevent raveling of threads: Fills machine reservoir with sealant. Inverts support, cuts excess threads, using scissors, and places support on roller. Presses levers and pedals to start machine […]
Linter-Saw Sharpener
Job Title: Linter-Saw Sharpener
Linter-Saw Sharpener Duties: Operates machine to sharpen cylinders of circular saws used in linter machines: Removes saw cylinders from linter machine and mounts cylinder in feeding head of sharpening machine. Examines saw blades to determine amount of cut necessary to sharpen them. Turns handwheels to set cutting control to specified depth of […]