- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who marks cutting lines on hides and trims ragged edges, thin areas, and brand marks from hides, using rule, pattern, knife, and chalk.
* May be designated according to hide trimmed as black-leather trimmer; blue-split trimmer; lambskin trimmer; lime trimmer; raw-hide trimmer; wet trimmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that abrades felt hat brims to smooth brims and remove excess fibers. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions hat in guide between feed and sanding rollers of machine.
* Depresses pedal to start machine that forces brim against abrasive cone, removing excess fibers and smoothing brim.
* Removes hat from machine, inverts, and repositions hat to smooth other side of brim.
* Feels brim surface to ascertain that specified texture has been attained and removes hat.
* Turns setscrew to remove and replace sanding cone, using screwdriver.
* When tending machine that abrades brims by action of sandpaper pads mounted on adjustable arms, is designated Jigger-Brim-Pouncing-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that buffs unfinished felt or wool hat bodies to raise, smooth, or polish nap. Respnsibilities include:
* Secures hat block of specified size in chuck of machine, pulls hat body over block, and starts machine.
* Depresses pedal to rotate block and force hat body against rotating felt, sandpaper, or sharkskin-covered buffing wheels to raise nap or smooth and polish body.
* Releases pedal to stop machine when buffing is completed and removes body from block.
* Turns hat body inside out and replaces body on block to buff inside surfaces.
* May be designated according to type of machine tended as brim buffer; crown buffer; automatic hat buffer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that buffs hides to specified finish. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews to regulate distance between rollers, according to thickness of hide.
* Inserts hide between rollers and starts machine.
* Holds half of hide while rollers buff surface of other half.
* Repeats buffing operation on unbuffed portion of hide.
* May be designated according to hide buffed as black-leather buffer; white-kid buffer.
* May tend machine equipped with abrasive covered rollers that form nap on surface of leather and be designated sueding-wheel operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that curls pile of fabric to simulate natural fur. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions truck of cloth at feed-end of machine.
* Sews cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Turns knob to raise or lower curling brushes according to depth of pile.
* Straightens cloth to remove wrinkles before cloth passes under rotating brushes.
* Feels curled pile to detect knotting of fibers caused by brushes being out of adjustment.
* Notifies supervisor when knots are found.
* Cleans accumulated fibers from brushes, using hook.
* Ravels seam to separate roll at end of piece.
* Pulls or lifts roll onto truck.
* May replace defective brushes, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with rotary blades that trim loose threads from selvage of cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Segregates cloth according to type and width.
* Turns wheel to set width and tension guides on machine for each batch.
* Inserts rod into center of cloth roll and lifts roll onto machine brackets.
* Sews cloth end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Observes cloth feeding into scray or over inspection board to detect torn selvages, holes, or soils, and cuts out torn sections, or identifies defects with adhesive stickers.
* Ravels seam to separate roll of trimmed cloth and doffs roll, using hoist, or by pushing it onto platform.
* Starts cloth winding onto new beam or tube.
* May verify yardage in rolls.
* May work as member of team to creel and doff cloth rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with rotary blades that trim loose threads from selvage of cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Segregates cloth according to type and width.
* Turns wheel to set width and tension guides on machine for each batch.
* Inserts rod into center of cloth roll and lifts roll onto machine brackets.
* Sews cloth end to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Observes cloth feeding into scray or over inspection board to detect torn selvages, holes, or soils, and cuts out torn sections, or identifies defects with adhesive stickers.
* Ravels seam to separate roll of trimmed cloth and doffs roll, using hoist, or by pushing it onto platform.
* Starts cloth winding onto new beam or tube.
* May verify yardage in rolls.
* May work as member of team to creel and doff cloth rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that hollows (concaves) front of shoe heel to specified shape.
* Inserts heel into holding device of machine.
* Depresses pedal to start machine that automatically forces heel against revolving cutting blades, hollowing and shaping front of heel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with series of brushing units that raise and set pile of such fabrics as corduroy and velvet. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes truck or roll of cloth into feeding position.
* Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
* Turns crank to set width guides according to width of cloth.
* Starts machine and observes cloth to detect grease spots, holes, or torn selvages as cloth is drawn between rollers and brushes.
* Turns valve to admit water into trough of wet brushing unit.
* May doff cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts leather into strips (lace) for power-transmission belting, dress belts, or boot laces. Respnsibilities include:
* Scribes line along edge of tanned hide, using ruler, chalk, or pencil.
* Cuts leather along ruled line to square edge, using knife.
* Turns screws to adjust machine guide to specified width.
* Starts machine and inserts leather between feed rollers, against machine guide, and under circular knife that cuts leather into strips.
* Ties strips into bundles for further processing or shipment by hand or using automatic bundling machine.
* May be designated according to product as belting cutter; machine boot-lace cutter; sole-stock cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
