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Job Title: Roving Tender
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Level of Skill:
Operative
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Job Description:
Operating and cleaning roving
frames, piecing ends keeping roving ^ . _ v _
frame supplied with slivers and help- -gs&jb-R^m
ing with doffing. Sweeping floor JM^^-Wj"
under and near speed frames.
Job Skill Standards: :
I. Trade Theory: :
1. Know the purpose of producing
roving and the main purpose and
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working principle of the doffing
mechanism of the speed frame.
2. Know the dangerous parts and
safety devices on a speed frame.
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3. Know the names of the main
parts of a speed frame.
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4. Be aware of the importance of 4.
keeping a speed frame in a clean
condition.
5. Know the reasons for stretched 5.
or slack rovings and the effect of
such a fault on yarn quality.
6. Be aware of the importance of 6. _ __
removing two-fold, dirty and ir- jj&^illl^
regular roving from a bobbin.
7. Be aware of the importance of 7.
good and clean piecings in sliver
and roving.
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8. Be aware of the importance of 8. °
not allowing wrong slivers to be
fed to the speed frame.
9. Be aware of the importance of 9.
making the standard number of
turns around the presser on the
flyer.
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10. Understand the future difficulties 10. __
which may arise from having too ;@©cbit^±-yRfei^nitT <
much waste sliver or roving in ^TO¥^Mi«
the mixing.
11. Be aware of the importance of 11.
removing roller laps with the
hook parallel to the roller
surface.
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