Job Description:

• 1) Tends machine that kneads tips of felt hat cones to form and shape crowns of hats: Soaks cones in trough of heated water.

• 2) Selects hat form according to size specifications, positions form on machine bed, and moves lever to secure form.

• 3) Pulls soaked cone onto form and depresses pedal to raise form and cone against moving machine fingers that knead tip of cone, stretching cone onto form and shaping crown.

• 4) Grasps bottom of cone and rotates cone to ensure symmetrical shaping of crown.

• 5) Removes resulting hat body and pulls it onto hat block to smooth crown and set shape.