Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that passes cloth between rollers and steam-jacketed enclosure to press and remove wrinkles from cloth: Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.

• 2) Turns wheel to adjust guides according to width of cloth.

• 3) Turns thumbscrew to regulate pressure of steam jacket for type of cloth and finish specified.

• 4) Turns valve to admit steam if cloth is to be dampened before pressing.

• 5) Observes cloth feeding into machine to detect and remove foreign matter.

• 6) Places empty truck under swing-folding attachment and doffs full truck or removes full rolls from machine brackets, using chain hoist.

• 7) May measure width of cloth after pressing and turn wheel to adjust spread roller that controls width of finished cloth.