A professional who tends machine that gathers casings into short lengths on horns (metal nozzles of sausage-stuffing machine) to facilitate stuffing of casings with emulsified meat. Respnsibilities include:

• Places reel of flattened casings on holder of gathering machine.
• Threads casing between feed rollers, onto tube, and onto take-up reel.
• Starts machine that automatically expands and rounds casings.
• Cuts rounded casings from reel into specified lengths, using cutting attachment on machine.
• Places horn over water pipe, fits casing over end of horn, and turns valve to flow water through pipe and into casing to facilitate gathering of casing on horn.
• Places horn between two cone-shaped rollers which force and gather casing lengths over horn.
• Removes loaded horn and places horn in container.