Job Description:

• 1) Sets up and operates boring-and-filling machine to fabricate brushes: Installs specified ratchet wheel, cams, stapling head, and drill in machine, using handtools.

• 2) Mounts roll of wire on spindle and threads wire through stapling mechanism.

• 3) Fills magazine with material, such as horsehair, nylon, wire, plastic filaments, or vegetable fibers, according to type of brush being made.

• 4) Positions and clamps wooden or composition brush base in jig under drill, and clamps predrilled base in jig under filling-and-stapling device.

• 5) Starts machine which simultaneously drills holes in blank base, and inserts and staples brush material in holes of drilled base.

• 6) Places finished brush on storage rack.

• 7) May be designated according to type of brush filled as Hair-Brush-Boring-And-Filling-Machine Operator; Tooth-Brush-Boring-And-Filling-Machine Operator; Wire-Brush-Boring-And-Filling-Machine Operator.