Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that presses hat-body material, such as crinoline, paper, or buckram between dies to form hat crowns or cap visors: Places sheets of precut material between layers of wet cardboard or dampens material with sponge to soften material preparatory to pressing.

• 2) Stretches softened material over heated crown-shaped lower die and depresses pedal, causing upper die to descend and press material into shape of hat crown.