A professional who mixes and blends finishing grease and coloring powders used in manufacture of felt hats. Respnsibilities include:

• Pours specified amounts of ingredients, such as oil and lanolin into blending pot, following formulas and using measuring containers.
• Places pot on heated range and stirs ingredients to blend mixture, using paddle.
• Places rolls of greasing or pouncing (smoothing) cloth in processing pan and pours mixture over rolls.
• Turns knobs to activate oven and places processing pans in oven to heat rolls of cloth in mixture for specified period.
• Removes pans from oven at end of processing, affixes batch labels to rolls, and carries rolls to specified storage area.
• Refines dye powders, using powder-refining tumbler machine, and weighs and blends refined powders according to formulas and work order specifications, using scale and automatic mixing machine.
• Labels and stores blended powders, according to color, in specified storage areas.