Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that stretches and sets circular knitted cloth to uniform width: Turns screws to adjust width of spreader according to specifications.

• 2) Turns valves to admit steam into steam box that sets stretched cloth.

• 3) Threads cloth over feed and 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.

• 4) Starts machine and observes flow of cloth to detect cloth defects, such as dirt, dye streaks, and holes.

• 5) Cuts defects from cloth, using shears.

• 6) Measures width of calendered cloth with hand rule.

• 7) Cuts calendered cloth with shears or automatic cutter attached to machine and doffs rolls of cloth from machine.

• 8) May lower top pressure roller to press cloth.

• 9) May attach identification tag to end of cloth bolt.

• 10) May tend calender fed from rolls, handtruck, or another machine.