Job Description:

• 1) Tends feed-end of range that bleaches, washes, and dries greige cloth preparatory to printing, dyeing, or finishing: Pulls cloth from overhead carrier, positions truck of folded cloth at feed-end of machine, or mounts roll of cloth onto brackets at scray.

• 2) Sews cloth end to leader in range, using portable sewing machine.

• 3) Presses button or turns handwheel to set width guide according to width of cloth.

• 4) Turns valves to control level of chemicals in mangle, washboxes, and peroxide saturator.

• 5) Turns knobs to adjust pressure on squeeze rollers and to set speed of range as specified for various cloth styles.

• 6) Observes cloth entering machine to detect bad seams or flaws that might cause tear-outs.

• 7) Stops range and seams cloth to correct flaws.

• 8) May thread cloth through range when leader not left in range.

• 9) May tend range that washes, bleaches, scours, whitens, and dries cloth preparatory to further processing.