Job Description:

• 1) Tends open-developer machine that develops dye in dyed or printed cloth, removes excess color from cloth, and wets cloth before soaping process: Threads end of roll of cloth through machine rolls.

• 2) Turns steam valves to heat machine tank and opens valves to admit specified chemicals into tank and to start water spray.

• 3) Turns handwheels to close wringer rolls and starts machine.

• 4) Straightens wrinkles in cloth as cloth enters machine.

• 5) Sews end of new roll of cloth to end in machine during processing, using portable sewing machine.

• 6) Drains tank of machine after cloth is processed.

• 7) May mix chemicals in storage tank to develop desired color of cloth.