A professional who tends machine that coats uncured rubber or rubber-coated fabric strips and winds them on drum to make straps for rubber footwear. Respnsibilities include:

• Computes number and kind of books required, and keeps production chart.
• Places strip at back of drum, threads end through guides and cement-filled reservoir, and inserts end in groove of drum to secure it.
• Turns handwheel to regulate machine speed and starts machine that winds strip onto drum so that each turn abuts and adheres to edge of one previously wound.
• Stops machine when drum is filled and pulls knife along drum groove and across wound strip to form sheet of strips.
• Pulls sheet from drum onto cutting table, using stick, and cuts sheets into strips of specified length with knife, using triangular cutting bar as guide.
• Lifts rows of cut strips with stick and places them in book.