Job Description:

• 1) Tends automatic machine that cuts and shapes wire or fabric-covered wire to form bars, prongs, and buckle frames: Adjusts forming head according to product specified, using handtools.

• 2) Positions reel of wire on machine spindle and draws end of wire through guides to forming head.

• 3) Inserts wire against stop and depresses treadle-switch to start machine.

• 4) Observes automatic feeding of wire into machine or holds switch down with foot and advances wire against stop as specified item is cut, formed, and ejected.

• 5) May pull levers of hand-bending machine to shape sample items.