Automatic Sewing-Machine Operator: A description for the automatic sewing-machine operator job
Automatic Sewing-Machine Operator
Automatic Sewing-Machine Operator: Tends one or more sewing machines that automatically join, reinforce, or decorate material or fabricated articles: Places spool of thread on spindle and draws thread through guides, tensions, and eye of needle. Inserts bobbin into shuttle and draws thread through slot in shuttle wall, or draws thread through guides and looper eyes. May also pull boxes of flatfolded material into feeding position or place roll of material on brackets at entry end of machine. May also thread material through feed rollers and guides. Depresses pedal or moves lever to raise presser foot, positions article parts or material under needle, using edges, seams, or markings on fabric as guides, and lowers presser foot. Presses pedal or button to start machine that stops as material runs out or thread breaks. May also cut material, using scissors, when specified length of cloth has been sewn. Observes sewing operation to detect defective stitching, breaks in thread, or machine malfunction. Rethreads machine, replaces defective or broken needles, using pliers, or notifies sewing-machine repairer (industry) of machine malfunction. May also remove rolls or trucks of material from discharge end of machine. May also select supplies, for example fasteners or thread, according to specifications or color of fabric. May also oil machine. May also cut excess thread, using scissors or blade attachment on machine. May also tend machine equipped with blade attachment that automatically trims selvages. May also tend multiple-needle machine that joins two or more layers of cloth to reinforce them. Classifications are usually made according to function of machine as fastener-sewing-machine-operator (industry), hemmer, automatic (textile products), sering-machine operator, automatic (industry), tacking-machine operator (industry).
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