Job Description:

• 1) Covers designated perforations of metal pattern plates with metal pieces to control operation on needles in automatic knitting machines: Selects and links together specified number of pattern plates or cards to form continuous chain.

• 2) Arranges snappers over perforations designated by KNITTER MECHANIC.

• 3) Aids KNITTER MECHANIC to install plates in machine and starts machine for trial run to determine if plates have been prepared as specified.

• 4) May perforate blank pattern strips to correspond to needle-bed spacing.