Job Description:

• 1) Operates punching machine, equipped with pantograph mechanism, to punch pattern designs in rolls of paper or plastic which control stitching operations of automatic embroidery machines: Positions and tacks cartoon onto pantograph pattern board and mounts roll of paper in holder.

• 2) Pulls levers to start and to regulate speed of machine, and to move needles against pattern roll.

• 3) Guides pantograph pointer over cartoon to activate punching needles that perforate paper roll to form embroidery pattern roll.

• 4) Marks identifying information on punched roll, using crayon.

• 5) May place roll of paper in holder.

• 6) May operate machine equipped with mechanism that simultaneously stitches sample design and punches pattern in paper.

• 7) May place punched roll in machine that automatically produces copies of design.