Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that splits slabs or blocks of composition corkboard into sheet of specified thickness: Sets dial gauge or turns handwheels to set rollers at specified distance from each other and from endless belt knife, to cut sheet of prescribed thickness.

• 2) Places slab or block on roller conveyor that moves it to automatic feeding mechanism or pushes slab or block into roller opening that forces it against knife to cut sheet.

• 3) Measures sheet with dial indicator or snap gauge and makes machine adjustment to meet thickness specifications.

• 4) Repositions slab or block for each succeeding cut and stacks sheets.

• 5) May adjust grinding wheel that sharpens knife, using wrench.

• 6) May place slabs or blocks and sheets in steam-heated oven to condition them for cutting.