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window-shade cutter and mounter
A professional who tends machines that cut window shade fabric and rollers to specified size, and install roller end caps and hanging pins, and staple fabric to roller. Responsibilities include:
- Installs roll of shade cloth on spindles of window-shade cutter machine.
- Threads end of cloth through retaining and feed rollers of machine.
- Turns handle to feed specified amount of cloth into machine.
- Depresses treadle to cut cloth and fold bottom hem.
- Clamps shade roller against stop on saw carriage, starts machine, and pushes carriage against saw blade to cut roller to specified length.
- Removes roller and slips cap over each end.
- Clamps roller in pin-driving machine, inserts pin in driver, and depresses lever to drive pin through cap into end of roller.
- Fastens top end of cloth to roller, using hand stapler.
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