- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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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
A professional who tends machine that splits leather or shoe parts to reduce parts to uniform thickness or to cut parts into two or more layers, by any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Feeds part between rollers that force part against blade.
* (2) Positions part against machine guides and depresses pedal to force splitting blade against part.
* (3) Holds part against guide and horizontal band-blade.
* Turns setscrews or handwheels to adjust blade or rollers as specified.
* Verifies thickness of parts with specifications, using gauge.
* May sharpen machine blades.
* May be designated according to parts split as ball-point splitter; heel-cover splitter; heel splitter; heel-top-lift splitter; insole-and-outsole splitter; sole splitter.
* May be designated according to machine tended as band splitter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that rewind and cut rolls of material, such as cotton, nylon, and plastic into narrow rolls (stripping) for use in shoe ornamentation. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts roll of material on spindle and tightens clamps.
* Slides empty core on winding axle and threads end of material between pressure rollers and onto winding axle.
* Sets guide bar and starts machine that winds material onto core.
* Stops machine when counter indicates yardage specified on work ticket.
* Applies gummed tape to prevent unwinding.
* Positions roll on spindle of cutting machine and sets guide according to specifications.
* Pulls lever that starts machine and forces blade against roll to cut material into stripping.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that separates, or cuts to size, hat sweatbands temporarily joined together to facilitate production. Respnsibilities include:
* When separating sweatbands, joined by wire and thread, positions joint under blade on machine table.
* Depresses pedal to lower blade onto wire and thread, separating sweatbands.
* When cutting sweatbands to size, turns setscrews to adjust spacing of blades according to specifications.
* Positions sweatband on bed of machine against guides and under blades.
* Depresses pedal to lower blade, cutting sweatbands.
* May place sweatbands in containers or tie string around parts.
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 feeds feathers, used to stuff pillows, cushions, and mattresses into hopper of machine that cuts feathers into small pieces and discharges feathers into air duct leading to down separator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines hides and skins for flesh and hair after defleshing and dehairing operations.
* Places rejected hides on pile for reprocessing and defleshed and dehaired hides on cart.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts specified lengths from continuous roll of carpet, using power cut-off knife or long-handled cutting blade.
* May cut felt padding to specified lengths and be designated felt-pad cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who burns loose threads from edges of cloth rolls, using gas torch, and brushes off charred ends.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects hides for defects, such as cuts, holes, and scars, and cements leather patch over defect. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines defects and selects piece of leather that matches defective area in color and texture.
* Trims patch to size of defective area.
* Brushes cement on patch and hammers patch over defect, using mallet.
* Trims edges of patch, using knife and sandpaper.
* Folds and places hide on truck.
Industry:Professional careers
