- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that compresses heels to give them better wearing quality. Responsibilities include:
* Feeds precut heels of leather or composition material into machine and observes operation.
* May change dies and adjust stroke of ram.
* May tend machine equipped with blades that trim and shape breast of heel during operation.
* May compress top lifts and be designated top-lift compressor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts cavity to form heel seat in heels. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts specified cutting disk to machine.
* Turns setscrews to adjust machine for length and depth of cut.
* Loads heels into feeding device or positions heel under machine guide and depresses pedal to start machine that cuts gouge in heels and ejects them into storage container.
* May cut gouge in heel lifts and be designated heel-lift gouger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that pricks holes in leather heels to facilitate nailing. Responsibilities include:
* Selects pricking device according to number of holes to be pricked.
* Inserts awls of specified size and length through holes in faceplate of device.
* Positions device in machine and places heel on feed channel.
* Depresses pedal to start machine that drives awls into heel and pulls them out again.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that scores insole of shoe to provide guideline for installation of heel and indicate where channel of insole begins. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews and moves guides on machine to hold specified insoles.
* Positions insole against guides and presses switch to start machine that cuts score across heel seat of insole.
* May make cut in toe of welt insole to prevent puckering when stitched to shoe upper and be designated insole-toe-snipping-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends nailing machine that attaches wooden or plastic heels to nonleather footwear. Responsibilities include:
* Inverts shoe and places heel section over metal rest and against stop guide.
* Depresses pedal to drive hopper-fed nails automatically around edge of counter into insole to prepare seating for heel.
* Sets screwhead in hole of machine fixture, holds inverted shoe and heel in assembly position against stop guides, and depresses pedal that presses shoe and heel together and automatically drives screw into heel (pressure turns thread into heel).
* Pushes knob to load nail-driving device with nails from hoppers, inverts shoe with attached heel over nail holder and against stop guides, and depresses pedal to drive nails automatically into heel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lasting machine that shapes and attaches heel section edges of upper to insole. Responsibilities include:
* Places and holds last on machine spindle.
* Pulls edges of shoe upper over insole, using lasting tool. Depresses pedals that activate wipers that press upper edges against insole and tack drivers that fasten edges onto insole.
* Turns handwheel to adjust spacing of wipers and tack drivers.
* May nail down exposed edges and tacks, using hammer.
* May soften and remove wrinkles from uppers, using hand iron.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies ink or stain to color edges of shoe soles or heels, by any of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Inserts and guides outsole or midsole between pressure roller and ink-covered rollers of machine.
* (2) Depresses pedal that separates feed rollers; releases pedal that closes and starts rollers that hold and turn sole edge against inked wheel.
* (3) Positions and guides soles under machine nozzle that applies ink or stain to edge of attached outsole.
* (4) Positions heel against machine guide and turns heel against revolving brush that applies ink to heel edge.
* May be designated according to part colored as machine heel-edge inker; machine sole-edge inker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that trims edges of inseam to remove excess material prior to attachment of midsole or outsole. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrew that locks reciprocating blade onto machine shaft.
* Turns knobs that position machine guide.
* Depresses pedal that withdraws presser device, permitting alignment of excess material with cutting edge of blade.
* Releases pedal that recoils presser device, forcing excess material under blade.
* Guides shoe against cutting edge of blade to trim off excess material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts bevel along channeled stitching lip on top edge of insole. Responsibilities include:
* Positions edge of insole under knife.
* Moves lever to drop knife and pressure foot onto edge of insole and move presser roller against inner surface of channeled lip.
* Pushes treadle to start machine and guides insole through machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses precemented canvas lining into channel area of insole and trims lining. Responsibilities include:
* Positions insole between horizontal disks.
* Depresses pedal to cause disks to press lining into insole channel, and to cause revolving blade to trim lining flush with insole edge.
Industry:Professional careers
