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Job Title: Card Stripper (I.L.O. Classification: 7-51-35)
Level of Skill: Operative
Job Description:
Carrying out card stripping
according to schedule, changing damaged
parts or slack belts and ropes,
removing and delivering card droppings
and card strippings. Checking
the carding engine to see if it is working
properly. Checking and repairing
minor parts ^and lubricating the
appropriate points.
Job Skill Standards:
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I. Trade Theory: ff :
1. Know the purpose of all the 1. j®%
working parts of a carding engine ^^g.
and their relationship to each
other.
2. Know the dangerous parts and 2. ^j^
safety devices on the carding g c
engine.
3. Know the names of the main
parts of a carding engine.
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4. Know the method and purpose
of changing the gears and pulleys.
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5. Know how a difference in settings
affects the quality.
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6. Understand why the slackness of 6.
belts and ropes cause incorrect
speed which in turn affects quality
and production.
7. Know why the incorrect method 7.
of stripping and untimely stripping
will give a bad result to the
machine parts and the web
quality.
8. Know the bad effects which may
arise, and the importance of immediate
corrective action, if the
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carding engines are not working
properly or, if the web is of
poor quality.
9. Understand that if the card fly is
not removed regularly, it will
affect the web quality.
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