Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that gathers casings into short lengths on horns to facilitate stuffing of casings with emulsified meat: Places reel of flattened casings on holder of gathering machine.

• 2) Threads casing between feed rollers, onto tube, and onto take-up reel.

• 3) Starts machine that automatically expands and rounds casings.

• 4) Cuts rounded casings from reel into specified lengths, using cutting attachment on machine.

• 5) Places horn over water pipe, fits casing over end of horn, and turns valve to flow water through pipe and into casing to facilitate gathering of casing on horn.

• 6) Places horn between two cone-shaped rollers which force and gather casing lengths over horn.

• 7) Removes loaded horn and places horn in container.