Job Description:

• 1) Tends semiautomatic press that attaches metal stops to slide fastener stringers: Fills machine hopper with stops.

• 2) Inserts stringer between press jaws and depresses pedal to drive prongs of stop through tape.

• 3) Pulls chain through dies to machine stop to position stringer for next stroke.

• 4) Picks jammed or defective stops from feeder tube, or hopper, using metal pick or tweezers.

• 5) May tend machine that automatically punches, forms, and attaches stop to stringer.

• 6) May hold zipper on anvil of power press by hand and depress pedal to attach stops to individual zipper.

• 7) May be designated according to location of stop as Bottom-Stop Attacher; Top-Stop Attacher.

• 8) May attach hardware to zipper and be designated according to type of hardware attached as Box Attacher; Bridge Attacher; Pin Attacher.