A professional who tends equipment to make fuses for pyrotechnics. Respnsibilities include:

• Screens black powder to required fineness and pours it into hopper of spinning machine.
• Threads end of rolls of cotton roving into spindle of spinning machine.
• Starts machine that automatically spins strands of cotton yarn together and around a train of black powder to make fuses and winds fuses onto bobbins.
• Stops spinning machine and removes bobbins.
• Positions filled bobbins in holders of dope trough.
• Threads fuses over pulleys in dope trough and drying chamber, fastening ends of fuses to reels in drying chamber.
• Fills trough with dope and regulates temperature of drying chamber.
• Starts motor to pull fuses through dope and through heated chamber to dry dope-covered fuses and to wind fuses onto reels.
• Removes reels of dried fuse when automatic counter indicates that specified amount of fuse has been wound onto reel.