Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that agitates fur felt hat cones to mat together interlocking fibers and harden cones preparatory to forming into hats: Wraps wet cones in burlap and wrings or places cones in extractor and starts machine to remove excess water.

• 2) Wraps cones in woolen cloth and places cloth containing cones on rollers of hardening machine.

• 3) Pulls handle to lower upper rollers onto cones and simultaneously start timed rollers that agitate cones and tighten fibers in tip of cones.

• 4) Removes cloth containing cones and repeats operation to tighten fibers in brim area of cones.

• 5) May inspect cones and work fibers into holes and thin spots, using fingers, to repair damaged cones.