Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that weights silk or rayon cloth with tinning solution: Places cloth into bowl of machine and distributes cloth evenly along sides of bowl.

• 2) Wraps burlap around cloth to prevent silk from separating.

• 3) Turns valve to admit compressed air into storage tank to agitate tinning solution.

• 4) Starts pump to transfer specified amount of solution to bowl of machine.

• 5) Determines specific gravity of solution, using hydrometer, and pours water or concentrated tinning solution from pail into bowl of machine to bring solution to required specific gravity.

• 6) Starts machine that slowly rotates bowl to saturate cloth with solution.

• 7) Opens valve to drain solution from bowl of machine into storage tank and turns rheostat control to increase speed of rotating bowl to extract excess solution from cloth.

• 8) Removes cloth from machine.