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A professional who performs variety of tasks to assist in cleaning rugs in plant or at customers' premises. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves furniture to remove rug to plant or to clear room for cleaning rug on premises.
* Pushes vacuum cleaner over rug or feeds rug into machine equipped with rotating straps or brushes that remove dirt and dust preparatory to scrubbing.
* Fastens rug to pins attached to conveyor chain of automatic cleaning machine, as directed by rug cleaner, machine.
* Examines or rubs cleaned rugs with towel to determine cleanliness and notifies rug cleaner, machine if additional cleaning is required.
* Rolls and wraps rug with paper or ties it with cord for delivery to customer or storage.
* May brush or spray sizing on back of rug.
* May spray rugs, carpets, and upholstered furniture with insecticides to mothproof them.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans leather gloves with cleaning solvents, using handbrush. Respnsibilities include:
* Soaks gloves in vessel containing cleaning solution.
* Lays soaked gloves on worktable and brushes gloves with handbrush until clean, observing texture of leather and controlling pressure on brush to avoid damage (scuffing) to leather.
* Clips gloves to hanger or fits gloves on heated form to dry.
* May immerse white gloves in solution to prevent yellowing.
* May dye gloves or jackets, following customer's specifications.
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A professional who cleans linings of fur garments by scrubbing the linings with brush dipped in cleaning solvent.
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A professional who brushes surface of cleaned suede leather garments with stiff handbrush to raise nap.
* May position garment on form and actuate steam and air pressure to expand garment for ease in brushing.
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A professional who presses drycleaned and wet-cleaned silk and synthetic fiber garments, using hot-head press or steamtable, puff irons, and hand iron. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates machine presses to finish those parts that can be pressed flat and completes other parts of garments by pressing with hand iron.
* Finishes parts difficult to reach, such as flounces, by fitting parts over puff irons.
* Finishes velvet garments by steaming on buck of hot-head press or steamtable, and brushing pile (nap) with handbrush.
* Finishes fancy garments, such as evening gowns and costumes, with hand iron, applying knowledge of fabrics and heats to produce high quality finishes which cannot be obtained on machine presses.
* Presses ties on small pressing machine or by inserting heated metal form into tie and touching up rough places with hand iron.
* Finishes pleated garments, determining size of pleat from evidence of old pleat or from work order (for new garments) and presses with machine press or hand iron.
* May press wool fabrics requiring precision finishing.
* In establishments where many silk finishers are employed may be designated according to specialty as Finisher, Hand; Form-Finishing-Machine Operator; Hot-Head-Machine Operator; Pleat Presser; Puff-Iron Operator I; Tie Presser; Velvet Steamer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates hot-head pressing machine to press and shape drycleaned leather or suede garments. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions garment on buck of machine and pushes buttons to lower pressing head of machine onto garment.
* Rearranges garment on buck, repeating process until pressing is completed.
* Brushes suede to raise nap.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates hot-head pressing machine to press and shape drycleaned leather or suede garments. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions garment on buck of machine and pushes buttons to lower pressing head of machine onto garment.
* Rearranges garment on buck, repeating process until pressing is completed.
* Brushes suede to raise nap.
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A professional who operates steam pressing machine or uses hand iron to press garments, such as trousers, sweaters, and dresses, usually in small cleaning establishment.
* Presses silk garments and wool garments.
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A professional who operates steam pressing machine or uses hand iron to press garments, such as trousers, sweaters, and dresses, usually in small cleaning establishment.
* Presses silk garments and wool garments.
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A professional who operates pressing machine to smooth surfaces, flatten seams, or shape articles, such as garments, drapes, slipcovers, and hose, in manufacturing or dry cleaning establishments, using either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Spreads articles to be pressed on buck (padded table) of machine.
* Pulls pressing head onto article and depresses pedals or presses buttons to admit steam from buck through garments to press them and to exhaust steam from presser.
* Rearranges articles on buck and repeats process until pressing is complete.
* (2) Positions garment on buck and depresses pedal to lower jump iron onto garment and to apply pressure.
* Pushes lever to release steam from iron.
* Pushes iron attached to movable arm back and forth over garment and shifts garment under iron until garment is pressed.
* Hangs pressed articles on wire hangers.
* May operate two presses simultaneously, positioning articles on one press while another article is steamed on other press.
* May finish pressed articles, using hand or puff irons.
* May tend machine that presses and shapes articles, such as shirts, blouses, and sweaters.
* May be designated according to article pressed as Coat Presser; Pants Presser; or according to fabric pressed as Silk Presser (garment) II; or according to part of garment pressed as Armhole-And-Shoulder Off-Presser (garment); Lining Presser; or according to type of machine used as Jump-Iron-Machine Presser (garment).
* May be designated according to article, part, type of fabric, or machine used as Band Presser (garment); Collar Fuser (garment); Form-Press Operator; Legger-Press Operator; Mushroom-Press Operator; Puff-Iron Operator II; Shirt Finisher (garment); Topper-Press Operator; Topper-Press Operator, Automatic; Vest-Front Presser (garment); Wash-Clothes Presser; Wool Presser.
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