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Occupations | Tends machine that removes dirt, natural gums, and waxes from greige cloth preparatory to further processing: Lifts rolls of cloth to platform at feed-end of machine, using hoist. Inserts rod through center of roll and pushes roll onto machine brackets. Sews end of cloth roll to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine. Turns valves to admit caustic solution and steam to vats. Starts cloth winding from roll on to takeup beam in initial boiloff box and from initial boiloff box onto beams in subsequent boiloff and washboxes. Threads cloth from terminal washbox through squeeze rollers and doffs cloth from $T3swing-folding attachment.$T1 Records cloth lot number, machine running time, and yardage of cloth processed. May measure distance between colored yarn markers on cloth selvage to determine shrinkage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4F 49 4C 2D 4F 46 46 2D 4D 41 43 48 49 4E 45 4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52 2C 43 4C 4F 54 48 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001111 01001001 01001100 00101101 01001111 01000110 01000110 00101101 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 00101100 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B O I L - O F F - M A C H I N E   O P E R A T O R ,   C L O T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004F 0049 004C 002D 004F 0046 0046 002D 004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045 004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 002C 0043 004C 004F 0054 0048 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36494346154940401547353742434839249503952355449521423746495442 |
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