- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that flexes hat brims and raises nap to improve pliability and appearance of brim. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and inserts hat brim between feed rollers and cloth-covered pads or rollers that bend and rub brim to flex brim and raise nap.
* May be designated according to type of hat processed as felt-hat-mellowing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that abrades hat crowns to impart smooth, finished appearance. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects specified hat block and installs block on machine.
* Moves lever to clamp block in place and pulls hat over block.
* Starts machine that starts block rotating and forces sanding pads, arm, or abrasive wheel against surface of hat to smooth crown and impart specified texture.
* Removes hat, turns hat inside out, and repeats sanding operation to smooth and finish inside of crown.
* Removes hat and inspects it for smoothness of finish.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that raises nap on skeins of yarn or thread. Respnsibilities include:
* Slips specified number of skeins on rollers of machine in belt form.
* Turns handwheel to adjust tension on skeins.
* Starts machine and guides skeins with pole to keep skeins centered on rollers.
* Removes skeins, twists ends of skeins, and places skeins in truck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts leather into blockers: Installs cutting disks in machine, using wrenches.
* Places leather on cutting bed, smooths out wrinkles, and positions leather according to shape of piece and pattern of grain.
* Trims offal from leather, using knife.
* Starts machine and guides leather over feed roller that forces it against row of revolving disks that cut leather into blockers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts frayed edges or excess material from articles, such as hat brims or fabric buffing wheels, or separates hat brims from crowns prior to finishing operations. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures radius of article, using ruler.
* Turns setscrews on machine guide to adjust width of cut, according to specifications.
* Positions edge of article or crown against guide on bed of machine and pulls lever to lower rotary cutting blade onto article.
* Depresses pedal or pushes button to start machine that rotates article against revolving blade to cut article.
* May rotate article against cutting blade by hand.
* May be designated according to material cut as straw-hat-brim-cutter operator; trimmer, buffing wheel.
* May tend machine that rakes and trims buffing wheels simultaneously and be designated facer, buffing wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that scrapes flesh or hair from pelts, shears wool on sheepskin to specified length, or shaves hides to uniform thickness. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns handwheel or setscrew to adjust feed roller to specified height.
* Places pelt or hide on roller and presses pedal to raise roller that feeds hide to clippers or revolving blades.
* Verifies thickness of hide, using micrometer.
* May sharpen blades, using honing stone.
* May be designated according to operation performed as fleshing-machine operator; shearing-machine operator; unhairing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that shears fur on pelts, such as lamb and beaver, to produce pelts with hair of uniform length, or obtain specific effect. Respnsibilities include:
* Arranges skin, fur side up, on conveyor belt, feed tray, or cloth covered roll and fastens skin to pins protruding through cloth.
* Turns setscrews to adjust clearance between feeding device, conveyor belt, or rollers, according to specifications, using gauge, or type and size of pelt.
* Starts machine and guides pelt through rollers, equipped with upper rotary blade that shears fur from pelt.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends cutting machine that trims hides for further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Places hide on bed of machine.
* Starts machine and guides hide under blade, or blade through hide.
* Stacks trimmed hides on pallets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that shears nap, loose threads, and knots from cloth or carpet surface to give uniform finish and texture. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of cloth on brackets at feed-end of machine, using hoist or by lifting one end at a time.
* Sews end to leader, using portable sewing machine, or pulls end of cloth over and under several feed rollers, under knife blade roller, over wire point (brush) tension roller, and secures end to takeup beam.
* Turns crank to regulate knife blade roller to cut nap to specified depth.
* Starts machine and smooths wrinkles from cloth entering machine, using hands, to prevent blades from cutting into fabric.
* Raises knife blade roller to permit seams to pass under blades without being cut.
* Doffs roll of cloth from delivery end of machine.
* May replace knife blade, lubricate, and clean machine.
* May convey rolls of cloth to shearing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts strips of leather to remove defects and bevel ends for use as trimmings. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines stripping for defects, such as wrinkles, scars, and discolorations.
* Positions stripping against guide on machine bed.
* Pushes bed forward to force stripping against circular blade that cuts and bevels stripping.
Industry:Professional careers
