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A professional who presses caps or hats over heated hat blocks, by hand or with electric iron, to shape, smooth, or finish articles by any combination of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Turns dial or handle on metal block to heat block and fits article over block.
* Presses, pulls, and rubs article by hand to smooth article.
* (2) Inserts parts of adjustable block into hat or cap and forces wedge between parts to expand parts to fill article.
* Places article on bed of steam chamber or holds article over steam jet to soften article.
* Presses article with electric iron before placing in heated drying box.
* May be designated according to hat blocked as Panama-Hat Blocker; Strawhat Blocker; or according to production stage as Trimming-Department Blocker.
* When performing final finishing operations in addition to blocking, such as brushing hats and clipping loose threads, may be known as set-off blocker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stretches lower part of unfinished hat body to form brim. Respnsibilities include:
* Immerses hat bodies in hot water to soften material preparatory to stretching.
* Moves lever to adjust angle of metal ribs under hat-shaped block of machine to control specified brim width and crown height.
* Slips softened hat body onto block and over ribs.
* Presses button or depresses pedal to raise hat block and start movement of machine fingers that stretch brim.
* Releases pedal, turns body on block, and repeats stretching operation until brim is formed around entire hat body.
* Measures width of brim to ensure conformity with specifications, using ruler.
* Removes hat body from machine and places hat body on rack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stretches and dries knitted material. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts spreader of specified width into material.
* Pulls end of material through drying chamber equipped with fans and inserts material between feed rolls of machine.
* Starts fans which circulate heat and rolls which pull wet material over spreader and through chamber to stretch and dry knitted material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that reverses partially finished collars on garments, such as ladies' dresses, and flattens seams of collars. Respnsibilities include:
* Folds collar back along seam and draws folded seam over lower jaw of machine.
* Depresses pedal that lowers upper jaw of machine to spread seam.
* Grasps and moves collar back and forth over lower jaw to flatten seam.
* Releases pedal and removes collar.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that comb cotton fibers into sliver and form sliver into balls for use as surgical sponges. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions roll of cotton on carding machine and threads end through rollers.
* Starts machine that forms sliver.
* Threads sliver through rollers of machine that forms and ejects balls into bag.
* Adjusts machine to control size and weight of cotton balls.
* Sets counter and starts machine.
* Removes bag when filled with specified number of balls.
* Folds over flap and seals bag in container.
* Removes cotton fibers from carding machine, using stripping roller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who saturates felt cones in water and tends machine that stretches felt cones to form hat shapes. Respnsibilities include:
* Places felt cones in container of hot water or on racks in steam cabinet to condition cones.
* Removes conditioned cone from water or cabinet and pulls cone onto hat block.
* Positions hat block on holding device in bed of machine.
* Presses levers to close machine claws that grasp rim of cone and pull rim outward to form brim.
* Starts ram that forces block upward into cone to shape crown.
* Presses lever or depresses pedal to spray water and force air through cone, or pours water over cone to stiffen cone.
* Releases levers and removes hat from machine.
* Places hats on wheeled racks.
* May be designated according to type of hat blocked as wool-hat blocker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends double-unit hat-blocking machine that shapes white twill Navy hats. Respnsibilities include:
* Places hat on bottom part of block (mold), pushes block forward, and pulls lever to lower upper part of block over lower section.
* Opens air valve that inflates rubber lining and presses crown outward against sides of block to shape (block) hat.
* Moves lever to raise upper section of block, releases air pressure, pulls lower section to starting position, and removes shaped hat.
* Stacks hats on table.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that tightens twist in skeins of dyed thread. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens and examines skeins of thread to ensure that thread matches specifications of work order.
* Hooks one end of skein to upper hook of machine and hooks other end to lower hook on movable beam of machine.
* Releases clutch that lowers beam and stretches skein.
* Turns crank that rotates beam and twists skein.
* Feels skein to determine if twist has been tightened as specified.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic press that shapes hats, hatbrims, or crowns. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects shaping die, according to specifications, and positions die in recess of machine bed.
* Positions saddle (rubber hat-shaped liner) in die to protect hat during pressing.
* Pours water into tank of machine and turns valve to regulate level of water in rubber pressing bag, attached to machine ram, according to size of hat to be shaped.
* Inserts hat, crown down, into die.
* Moves lever to lower ram and water-filled bag against brim or into crown to press hat, brim, or crown.
* May be designated according to hat material as straw-hat-hydraulic-press operator; according to hat part shaped as brim presser ii; crown presser; or according to processing stage as second blocking-machine operator; first pressing hydraulic press operator.
* When tending machine that shapes hatbrims between flange (brim-shaped collar) and water-filled bag, is known as hydraulic-brim-flanging-machine operator.
* May be designated: band-plating-machine operator; panama-hat-hydraulic-press operator; wool-hat hydraulicker; woven-paper-hat-hydraulic-press operator finisher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms unfinished hat bodies, and separates formed bodies for further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Guides sheets of wool or other hat material onto revolving egg-shaped roller that winds material into shape of roller.
* Presses cutting disk or knife against center of revolving roller or stops machine and severs material with scissors to cut formed material into two hat bodies.
Industry:Professional careers
