A professional who operates felting machine to attach reinforcing burlap to felt strips or to compress several layers of felt by means of heat and pressure. Respnsibilities include:

• Suspends roll of burlap and two bats of felt over conveyor belt.
• Starts conveyor and unrolls felt strips, with burlap strip between felt strips, onto conveyor.
• Opens steam valves or water sprays to moisten felt passing through steam chamber or beneath sprays.
• Stops conveyor when bed of hydraulic press is covered by felt strip.
• Opens steam valves to heat press bed.
• Starts oscillating hydraulic ram that compresses felt.
• Laps end of felt bat to ends of other bats to form continuous strip.
• Plucks foreign matter from felt surfaces with tweezers and spreads loose felt over thin spots to produce uniform products.
• Straightens layers of stock on press bed to remove wrinkled stock.