Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that presses hat brims to smooth and flatten brims: Selects specified flange and positions flange over hole in heated machine bed.

• 2) Inserts hat crown in hole with brim resting on flange.

• 3) Moves lever to lower machine press against hat brim or raise machine bed, containing hat, against stationary press to curl, smooth, or flatten brim.

• 4) Removes hat from machine and places on rack.

• 5) May tend machine equipped with rotary block or inflation device to press hat brims.

• 6) When tending battery of hydraulic presses to shape straw hat brims, is known as Set-Off-Press Operator.