Job Description:

• 1) Tends machines that stretch tow, break tow into staple lengths, and crimp resulting sliver: Ties rope of filaments to filaments in machine or threads rope through guides and tension rollers, heating plates, breaking rollers, and crimping device and into receiving can.

• 2) Observes operation of machines to detect fibers wrapping around rollers and cuts away tangled fibers.

• 3) Adjusts yardage clock to stop machine when specified amount of fiber is in receiving can.

• 4) Records production data, and writes identification tickets for cans of sliver.

• 5) May tend machine that sets crimp in fiber.