Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that folds and winds cloth around cardboard center or tube for shipment: Mounts roll of finished cloth onto brackets of machine, and threads end through guide rollers and over triangular folding device, or joins ends to form continuous lengths, using sewing machine.

• 2) Places cardboard center or tube on winding spindles and starts cloth around cardboard center or tube.

• 3) Starts machine and pulls uneven selvages into alignment as cloth is folded and wound.

• 4) Turns handwheel to adjust folding attachment.

• 5) Cuts out seams and defects marked by CLOTH EXAMINER, MACHINE, using scissors or knife.

• 6) Doffs full rolls when specified yardage has been wound.

• 7) Feeds paper measuring tape into roll when winding cloth that stretches.

• 8) May tend machine fed directly from another machine.

• 9) May paste sticker showing yardage on outside of each bolt.

• 10) May fold special lots of cloth by hand.