Job Description:

• 1) Replaces worn clothing on carding machine cylinders, employing knowledge of machine operation and carding process: Removes worn clothing and aligns, levels, and spaces cylinder evenly on machine frame.

• 2) Marks cylinder to indicate location of wooden plugs and replaces defective plugs, using handtools.

• 3) Cleans surface of cylinder with solvent to remove oil and rust.

• 4) Tapers end of card clothing fillets with knife so strips can be wound parallel over circumference of cylinder.

• 5) Tacks end of fillet to cylinder plugs and guides fillet as fillet is wound onto cylinder, packing each strand tightly against preceding strand.

• 6) Tacks fillet to cylinder at specified intervals along chalked line.

• 7) May grind reclothed cylinder.