Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that stitches paperbacking to wire fabric used as floor and wall plaster lath: Loads paper roll and roll of wire fabric onto unreeling stand, using hoist.

• 2) Threads paper and wire fabric through guides, feed rollers, machine, and rewinder.

• 3) Loads stitch wire of specified gauge onto reel and threads end into feed rollers.

• 4) Adjusts machine to regulate length of stitch on fabric, using handtools.

• 5) Adjusts cutters and crimping bar of machine to cut and bend protruding end of thread so that wire hooks on to fabric edge.

• 6) Starts machine to stitch paperbacking to wire fabric.

• 7) Removes reinforced wire fabric from rewinder, using hoist.

• 8) Splices wire fabric rolls to specified length, using handtools.