Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that removes accumulated cotton fibers adhering to wire teeth of carding and doffing drums, using any of following methods: Positions stripping roller in brackets of carding machine so that wire teeth of roller project between wire teeth of carding cylinder.

• 2) Starts machine, allowing stripping roller to revolve rapidly and remove fiber from slowly revolving card cylinder.

• 3) May use stripping roll hood and suction pipe leading to handtruck to dispose of dust and lint.

• 4) Moves lever to position built-in stripping roll so that wire teeth contact teeth of cylinder.

• 5) Opens suction line to draw away lint collected by roll.

• 6) Places stripper nozzles of vacuum stripper attachment at side of carding cylinder and doffing drum.

• 7) Starts machine to move stripper across cylinder, drawing dust into nozzle.

• 8) May tend carding machines.

• 9) May assist in grinding card rolls.