A professional who tends machine that presses hat brims to smooth and flatten brims. Respnsibilities include:

• Selects specified flange (collar) and positions flange over hole in heated machine bed.
• Inserts hat crown in hole with brim resting on flange.
• Moves lever to lower machine press against hat brim or raise machine bed, containing hat, against stationary press to curl, smooth, or flatten brim.
• Removes hat from machine and places on rack.
• May tend machine equipped with rotary block or inflation device to press hat brims.
• When tending battery of hydraulic presses to shape straw hat brims, is known as Set-Off-Press Operator.