A professional who tends soft-work cigar machine (turret machine) that rolls wrapper tobacco leaves around bunches to make cigars. Respnsibilities include:

• Lays wrapper leaf on die of machine and presses treadle to lower knife that cuts leaf and to activate mechanism that draws cut leaf into machine and rolls leaf around bunch.
• Inspects finished cigars for defects as cigars emerge from machine.
• Pastes portions of leaf over holes or tears in wrappers.
• Discards defective cigars that cannot be repaired.
• Works in conjunction with bunch maker, machine who supplies bunches to machine.