Job Description:

• 1) Operates felting machine to attach reinforcing burlap to felt strips or to compress several layers of felt by means of heat and pressure: Suspends roll of burlap and two bats of felt over conveyor belt.

• 2) Starts conveyor and unrolls felt strips, with burlap strip between felt strips, onto conveyor.

• 3) Opens steam valves or water sprays to moisten felt passing through steam chamber or beneath sprays.

• 4) Stops conveyor when bed of hydraulic press is covered by felt strip.

• 5) Opens steam valves to heat press bed.

• 6) Starts oscillating hydraulic ram that compresses felt.

• 7) Laps end of felt bat to ends of other bats to form continuous strip.

• 8) Plucks foreign matter from felt surfaces with tweezers and spreads loose felt over thin spots to produce uniform products.

• 9) Straightens layers of stock on press bed to remove wrinkled stock.