Job Description:

• 1) Tends mangle that wets-out cloth or applies finishing chemicals, such as size starch, synthetic resins, or cellulose derivatives to cloth: Positions trucks of cloth at feed-end of machine and threads cloth through guides, under immersion roll, and through expander attachment and squeeze rolls, or sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.

• 2) Turns valve to admit water, starch, or finishing solution to trough of mangle.

• 3) Turns handwheel to set pressure of squeeze rollers according to thickness of cloth.