Safety precautions in the felting industry (1973)

A horse-drawn sleigh rides through a winter forest.

A performance by a Russian folk dance ensemble.

Girls dance in felt boots.

A shoe store.

A visitor tries felt boots on a child.

An old method of making felt boots by wool beaters is demonstrated.

A panorama of the city of Yaroslavl.

Yaroslavl Felting and Wool Production Association.

A production line for making felt boots.

Safety training for new employees of the enterprise directly at the production site.

A safety instructor explains.

Faces of female workers undergoing training and instruction.

The preparatory shop of the enterprise.

Initial processing of raw materials.

The work of scutching, burr removing, chipping and other machines is demonstrated.

The workers working on such machines wear cotton-gauze bandages.

A diagram of the movement of raw materials between machines.

Shots of machines in operation in the preparatory shop.

The correct diagram of cleaning the equipment is demonstrated.

Requirements for working on a three-drum scutcher.

Checking the blending machine before loading it with raw materials.

Carding shop.

The automatic dispenser feeds portions of the mixture with an automatic feeder into the self-tapping screw of the carding machine.

Grids that must necessarily protect the carding machines.

Necessary conditions for cleaning the carding machine.

Only specially trained people should put drive belts on the carding machines.

Installation of a new control panel.

Operation of new carriages for obtaining a wool cap.

Device for mechanized winding in layers.

Automatic flow line for processing waste.

Manual labor at the Yaroslavl Fulling and Felting Production Association.

Preparation of blanks.

Processing them on rolling machines.

Processing of the blank after the rolling machines on a frame-stretching machine.

Requirements for the restructuring of the frame-stretching machine.

Controllers check the quality of the blanks.

The conveyor transports the blanks to the felting and finishing shop.

Felting section.

A machine on which the warp goes through two stages of felting.

Then the blanks go to acidifying machines, which speed up the process of felting the warp.

Requirements for working with sulfuric acid, which is used in acidifying machines.

Centralized pipeline with sulfuric acid.

Processing of blanks in an acidifying machine.

Two-hammer horizontal machines.

Fencing of these machines.

After the hammer machine, the semi-finished product is fed to the roller-stretching machine.

Requirements for working on a roller-stretching machine.

Lever-stretching machine.

It is necessary to ensure that the gap between the levers is not less than 15 cm.

Preliminary steaming of the semi-finished product.

Wringing and mounting the semi-finished product on mechanical blocks.

Felt boots on blocks.

Finishing operations.

Trimming the bootlegs.

Packing the finished felt boots.

Samples of the factory's products are demonstrated.

Felt boots on the store's stands.

Trying on children's felt boots in the store.

Children walking in felt boots in the snow.