Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or more cutting machines that cut woven races in greige corduroy cloth: Sews end of cloth to leader, using portable sewing machine.

• 2) Places slotted wire guides under circular cutting blades so blades project into guide slots, and inserts guides into alternate races with fingers.

• 3) Positions magnetic stop-motion bar that automatically stops machine when guides slip out of cloth races and make contact with bar.

• 4) Starts machine and observes cloth to detect inferior cutting.

• 5) Notifies CUTTING-MACHINE FIXER of inferior cutting resulting from machine malfunction.

• 6) Withdraws guides at seams, pulls seam through machine, and inserts guides into races behind seam to continue cutting process.

• 7) Records lot number, piece number, yardage, and production.

• 8) Doffs cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.

• 9) Points guide tips and aligns guides, using pliers, whetstone, and emery cloth.