A professional who sets up and operates machine to saturate wire-reinforced paper, used as plaster lath, with oil, wax, or asphalt. Respnsibilities include:

• Loads wire-reinforced paper roll onto unreeling stand, using power hoist or crane.
• Threads paper through saturating rolls of machine and drier rollers and attaches end of paper to rewinding reel.
• Fills machine tank with saturating liquid, using monorail crane.
• Adjusts valves of gas burners and turns setscrews to regulate steam pressure, temperature, and flow of impregnating liquid.
• Starts machine and regulates pressure of saturating roll, rumbler rolls, speed of machine feed, and tension of rewinder, using handtools.
• Removes treated paper roll from rewinder, using power hoist.
• Seals paper roll, using gummed tape.