Job Description:

• 1) Tends skiving machine that bevels edges of shoe parts to prevent ridges at stitched, cemented, or folded edges: Depresses pedal to start machine.

• 2) Holds and guides part against guide and between feed rollers that force edges of part against blade.

• 3) Turns setscrews to adjust feed rollers, guides, and blade angle to specifications.

• 4) Verifies width and thickness of beveled edges, using micrometer.

• 5) May use pedal to regulate speed of rollers along curved, straight, or angled edges of part or to change incline of rollers and alter width and thickness of bevel.

• 6) May tend machines that roughen edges prior to cementing or skive narrow parts, such as straps and backstraps.

• 7) May be designated according to parts skived as Skiver, Counter; Skiver, Tuck.

• 8) May be designated: Skiver, Box-Toe; Skiver, Flare; Skiver, Heel Tap; Skiver, Sock Linings; Skiver, Uppers Or Linings; Skiver, Welt-End.

• 9) Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machines used.