Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines that comb lap II or sliver to remove short fibers, neps, and dirt and to straighten and align fibers: Lifts lap onto holders or positions cans of sliver at rear of machine.

• 2) Threads lap or sliver between feeder rollers, combing and drawing rollers, through gathering eyes, coiler head, and into cans.

• 3) Pieces up fresh lap or sliver to end of preceding one.

• 4) Pieces up breaks, and replaces cans of sliver or rolls of lap.

• 5) Removes full cans of processed sliver from coiler head and pushes cans to designated area to await further processing.

• 6) Observes signal lights to detect sliver breaks, machine malfunctions, and exhausting cans of unprocessed sliver.

• 7) Pulls lap-ups of fibers from rollers, using hook.

• 8) May empty bin of waste materials combed out of fibers.