Job Description:

• 1) Tends equipment that permanently fixes warp and filling threads in woolen and worsted cloth to prevent uneven shrinkage during subsequent processing: Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine, or threads cloth between rollers and through vats.

• 2) Wraps end of cloth around takeup roll or guides end through swing-folding attachment and onto handtruck.

• 3) Turns valves to admit water to vats and to regulate temperature controls, according to specifications.

• 4) Turns setscrews to adjust pressure of top roller.

• 5) Starts machine and turns knobs to regulate flow of cloth through vats of boiling water.

• 6) May doff machine.