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A professional who tends lasting machine that presses edges of precemented uppers onto insole and shapes shank section of shoes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions last between machine feed rollers that grip upper edges.
* Moves last along wiping bar that presses upper edges onto insole.
* May last entire upper.
* May remove temporary tacks, using lasting tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lasting machine that staples shank section (side) of shoe upper onto insoles and shapes it on shoe last. Responsibilities include:
* Places last on pin jack and pulls edge of upper over last, using lasting tool. Removes last, positions it under machine head, and starts machine that staples edges of upper to insole.
* May adjust cutterhead to regulate staple length, according to thickness of upper.
* May tend machine that tacks upper and be designated tack side laster.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with cutter attachment that trims plastic layer tops for use in ski manufacturing. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns top with guide and clamps top in holding device.
* Starts machine that trims tops to specified size and shape.
* Measures width of top for conformance to standards, using caliper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bevels edges of leather parts of articles, such as belting, gloves, wallets, cigarette and key cases, and handbags to prepare parts for joining. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews to adjust gauge, guide, feed roller, and blade, to regulate angle of bevel.
* Depresses pedal to start machine.
* Positions part on bed of machine against gauge and beneath guide.
* Guides part over feed roller that forces edge of material against blade to skive edge.
* Sharpens blade, using emery wheel.
* May pull leather strips across fixed cutting edge to reduce thickness and be designated hand skiver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends skiving machine that bevels edges of shoe parts to prevent ridges at stitched, cemented, or folded edges. Responsibilities include:
* Depresses pedal to start machine.
* Holds and guides part against guide and between feed rollers that force edges of part against blade.
* Turns setscrews to adjust feed rollers, guides, and blade angle to specifications.
* Verifies width and thickness of beveled edges, using micrometer.
* May use pedal to regulate speed of rollers along curved, straight, or angled edges of part or to change incline of rollers and alter width and thickness of bevel.
* May tend machines that roughen edges prior to cementing or skive narrow parts, such as straps and backstraps.
* May be designated according to parts skived as counter skiver; tuck skiver.
* May be designated: box-toe skiver; flare skiver; heel tap skiver; sock linings skiver; uppers skiver or linings; welt-end skiver.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machines used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that flattens, shapes, and smooths leather insoles and outsoles. Responsibilities include:
* Turns handle to adjust holding device to fit shoe.
* Positions shoe on pin jack and against holding device.
* Starts machine that forces shoe against presser roller and moves roller back and forth over sole to flatten ridges, bulges, and nicks caused by other operations.
* May move levers to control motion of roller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that buffs edges of household sponges to impart rounded finish. Responsibilities include:
* Depresses pedal to open device, inserts sponge between wheel teeth, and releases pedal to clamp sponge in wheels.
* Starts machine that revolves edge of sponge against buffing wheel to finish and round edges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that attaches spikes to sport shoes, such as football or baseball shoes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions shoe on bed of drill press and lowers drill to ream holes in shoe sole.
* Inserts spike stem through outsole from inside of shoe and places washers on protruding stem.
* Positions shoe on bed of pneumatic ram and lowers ram that clamps and assembles spike to shoe.
* Repeats operations until specified number of spikes are attached to shoe sole.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that imprints identifying data, such as trademark and type of lead on pencils. Responsibilities include:
* Places pencils in machine hopper, and starts machine to lower die-head and stamp data on pencil.
* Ties pencils into bundles.
* May install type or dies in machine head and replace colored foil roll in machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts uncured rubber or rubber-coated fabric strip into specified lengths, for use as leg straps on gaiters and hip boots. Responsibilities include:
* Selects cutoff wheel (having x-shaped cutting dies bolted in rim) for severing strap length.
* Bolts cutoff wheel to drive shaft, positions and bolts backing wheel against it, rim to rim, using wrenches.
* Mounts roll of strip in holder and threads end through guide and between wheels.
* Positions carton beneath wheels to catch cut straps.
* Starts machine, observes and counts mark on cutting wheel as it passes given mark on machine frame, to determine when required number of straps are cut.
* Arranges cut straps in books for use in assembling boots.
Industry:Professional careers
