Job Description:

• 1) Tends battery of machines that comb cotton fibers into sliver and form sliver into balls for use as surgical sponges: Positions roll of cotton on carding machine and threads end through rollers.

• 2) Starts machine that forms sliver.

• 3) Threads sliver through rollers of machine that forms and ejects balls into bag.

• 4) Adjusts machine to control size and weight of cotton balls.

• 5) Sets counter and starts machine.

• 6) Removes bag when filled with specified number of balls.

• 7) Folds over flap and seals bag in container.

• 8) Removes cotton fibers from carding machine, using stripping roller.