Job Description:

• 1) Tends one or several machines that wrap plastic, fiber, or metal bands at intervals around strands of braid to form tips of shoelaces and cut braid into laces: Sets measuring device to cut laces of specified length, using handtools and rule guide on machine.

• 2) Threads end of braid through guides and carrier, and around measuring device and feeder wheels, or ties end of braid to braid in machine.

• 3) Positions container of glue or solvent solution on machine or pours solution into container attached to machine.

• 4) Places roll of tipping material in holder and draws end through guides and feeder roller of tipping mechanism.

• 5) Starts machine that feeds braid through gluing, tipping, and cutting mechanisms and drops laces onto racks.

• 6) Removes laces from rack, picks out defective laces, and ties laces in bundles.