Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that prints designs on textile fabrics: Pushes cloth roll from handtruck onto rack at back of machine.

• 2) Sews end of cloth to end of preceding roll, using sewing machine.

• 3) Starts feed rollers and observes cloth as cloth unwinds into scray to detect cloth pieces sewn into roll face down.

• 4) Ravels seams, turns face of cloth up, and resews cloth ends.

• 5) Turns setscrews to adjust width guides and tension devices.

• 6) Ladles color from buckets into color boxes or turns valve to transfer color from tubs to color boxes.

• 7) Sews new length of back gray cloth to length in machine.

• 8) When blanket is used, scoops talcum into hopper where blanket is dusted after passing through washbox.

• 9) Removes color boxes and doctors and washes printing rollers, using brush and water hose, to prevent damage to rollers when printing stops.

• 10) Assists PRINTING-ROLLER HANDLER or GRAY-CLOTH TENDER, PRINTING in removing and replacing color boxes, doctors, printing rollers, and gears when changing pattern.