A professional who tends machine that agitates fur felt hat cones to mat together interlocking fibers and harden cones preparatory to forming into hats. Respnsibilities include:

• Wraps wet cones in burlap and wrings or places cones in extractor and starts machine to remove excess water.
• Wraps cones in woolen cloth and places cloth containing cones on rollers of hardening machine.
• Pulls handle to lower upper rollers onto cones and simultaneously start timed rollers that agitate cones and tighten fibers in tip of cones.
• Removes cloth containing cones and repeats operation to tighten fibers in brim area of cones.
• May inspect cones and work fibers into holes and thin spots, using fingers, to repair damaged cones.