Job Description:

• 1) Shapes completed footballs, volleyballs, and soccer balls, or vulcanizes plied ball carcasses, such as basketball carcasses, using internal pressure molding presses: Places ball or carcass in bottom half of heated molding press and inserts inflating stem in valve plug of workpiece.

• 2) Closes and locks mold.

• 3) Inflates workpiece to specified air pressure, removes inflating stem, and turns dial on timeclock to control heating cycle.

• 4) Inserts deflating stem through hole in mold and into valve of ball or carcass after specified time and deflates workpiece to regulation playing pressure.

• 5) Opens press, pulls out stem, and removes ball or carcass.

• 6) May repair rejected balls for remolding.

• 7) May mold plastic material to form bladderless inflatable balls, using heated curing ovens and molds.