A professional who tends machine that stitches paperbacking to wire fabric used as floor and wall plaster lath. Respnsibilities include:

• Loads paper roll and roll of wire fabric onto unreeling stand, using hoist.
• Threads paper and wire fabric through guides, feed rollers, machine, and rewinder.
• Loads stitch wire of specified gauge onto reel and threads end into feed rollers.
• Adjusts machine to regulate length of stitch on fabric, using handtools.
• Adjusts cutters and crimping bar of machine to cut and bend protruding end of thread so that wire hooks on to fabric edge.
• Starts machine to stitch paperbacking to wire fabric.
• Removes reinforced wire fabric from rewinder, using hoist.
• Splices wire fabric rolls to specified length, using handtools.