- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that cuts welt strip at heel seat of lasted shoe and tacks welt ends to insole preparatory to bottoming operations. Responsibilities include:
* Turns wheel to adjust holding device to fit shoe.
* Positions shoe on movable pin jack. Pushes pin jack under machine head and depresses pedal to start machine that cuts welt strip and tacks welt ends.
* Fills machine receptacle with tacks.
* Sharpens cutting blades, using hone.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends welt-cutting machine that cuts long narrow leather blockers into smaller sections for use as welts. Responsibilities include:
* Places ends of heavy paper strip in machine to cover leather strip when placed in cutting position.
* Positions end of leather strip under paper at point just before paper strip passes over knife, ensuring that edges of leather and paper are flush.
* Guides paper and leather by hand through cutting area to ensure straight line of feed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends welt-cutting machine that cuts long narrow leather blockers into smaller sections for use as welts. Responsibilities include:
* Places ends of heavy paper strip in machine to cover leather strip when placed in cutting position.
* Positions end of leather strip under paper at point just before paper strip passes over knife, ensuring that edges of leather and paper are flush.
* Guides paper and leather by hand through cutting area to ensure straight line of feed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses decorative indentations on welt to separate or simulate stitches. Responsibilities include:
* Positions shoe against guide on machine bed.
* Pulls lever to adjust blade for stitch length when separating stitches.
* Depresses pedal to raise bed, pressing welt against machine head.
* Holds welt under indenter blade to separate stitches or under heated corrugated wheel that forms simulated stitching.
* May be designated according to process as stitch separator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts series of blockers into strips used for shoe trimmings, such as bows and straps. Responsibilities include:
* Positions cutting disks and spacers (washers) on arbor and tightens setscrews.
* Inserts end of blocker series between machine guides and turns bolts to adjust guides to accommodate material.
* Depresses pedal that starts machine.
* Measures width of cut strips to verify conformity with specifications, using ruler.
* Trims imperfections from strips, using scissors.
* Bundles strips for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds wire around cured rubber hose for reinforcement. Responsibilities include:
* Positions spool of specified wire onto letoff rack, using hoist, and threads wire through machine.
* Adjusts machine for specified diameter of hose and pitch of wire spirals, using handtools.
* Pulls hose onto feed conveyor and positions hose in fixture of machine.
* Starts machine that winds wire onto hose.
* Verifies diameter and pitch of wire spirals with caliper and rule.
* Examines wire to ensure close fit around hose.
* Cuts wire and crimps ends, using handtools.
* Coils hose on skid or in packing box for removal to storage or shipping area.
* May attach coupling hardware to hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds wire around cured rubber hose for reinforcement. Responsibilities include:
* Positions spool of specified wire onto letoff rack, using hoist, and threads wire through machine.
* Adjusts machine for specified diameter of hose and pitch of wire spirals, using handtools.
* Pulls hose onto feed conveyor and positions hose in fixture of machine.
* Starts machine that winds wire onto hose.
* Verifies diameter and pitch of wire spirals with caliper and rule.
* Examines wire to ensure close fit around hose.
* Cuts wire and crimps ends, using handtools.
* Coils hose on skid or in packing box for removal to storage or shipping area.
* May attach coupling hardware to hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic stitching machines that stitch decorative designs on shoe parts, according to instructions encoded on tape cassettes. Responsibilities include:
* Receives bundles of shoe parts with tags that identify instruction cassette and style and color of thread to be used in stitching shoe parts.
* Places specified spools of thread on spindle of each machine, draws thread through machine guides and needles, and inserts prewound bobbin in shuttle.
* Positions shoe parts, such as upper or vamp, on holding device of machines, and depresses machine clamps to secure parts on device for stitching.
* Selects and inserts specified cassette in console of stitching machine, and presses buttons to activate machines that automatically stitch design according to encoded instructions on cassette.
* Removes shoe parts and examines design to verify conformance to specification.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds drop cloths from precut lengths of plastic. Responsibilities include:
* Places end of plastic around takeup cylinder of machine, and overlaps plastic to secure plastic to cylinder.
* Depresses pedal to activate cylinder and wind plastic onto cylinder.
* Applies pressure by hand to edge of plastic to ensure evenness of plastic around cylinder.
* Stops machine, slips rolled plastic drop cloths off cylinder, and folds cloths for further processing.
* Pushes lever of counter to tally number of drop cloths folded.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies layers of vulcanized rubber onto metal rollers to fabricate or recondition rubber rollers used in industrial machines. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews work order to identify type of roller to be covered and type, color, and thickness of vulcanized rubber to be applied onto metal roller.
* Measures metal roller, using tape measure, to verify dimensions with work order.
* Transports and mounts roller between holding devices of roller building machine, by hand or using overhead crane, working as team member.
* Carries, mounts, and loads roll of vulcanized rubber stock onto feed mechanism of machine.
* Depresses floor pedals to start feed mechanism and to start building machine that applies layers of vulcanized rubber around metal roller.
* Observes application of rubber around roller to detect air bubbles.
* Releases floor pedals to stop application of rubber, punctures air bubbles using knife, and applies pieces of rubber to airholes to seal holes.
* Measures thickness of rubber application, using calipers.
* Cuts rubber between roller and feed mechanism, using hot knife, and seals seam to roller, using stitching wheel.
* Trims rubber that laps over edges of roller, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
