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A professional who tends machine that cuts counters for shoes from leather, fiberboard, or other materials. Responsibilities include:
* Selects materials and cutting dies according to work ticket.
* Positions leather, sheets of fiberboard, or other material on bed under beam of machine.
* Positions die on material to obtain maximum number of parts.
* Depresses pedal to lower beam onto top of die, cutting out counters.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends forming machine that restores shape to heel counters of finished shoes. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts temperature of forming iron and positions shoe on iron.
* Depresses pedal that moves presser arms, forcing counter against iron to restore shape to counter.
* May remove wrinkles, using hand iron.
* May shape one-piece quarters by similar method and be designated quarter former.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that molds shoe counter into shape of heel. Responsibilities include:
* Places counter on head of mold.
* Regulates temperature of mold as specified for material being used, such as cloth, fiber, or lumite. Depresses pedal to exert pressure on mold and form counter.
* May be designated according to type of counter material as ciaio-counter molder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that skives (shaves), corrugates, and waxes precut counters to prepare them for further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Stacks counters in feeding device.
* Presses button to start machine that moves counters under presser rollers and knife blade to shave them to uniform thickness, then under roller that corrugates edges, and applicator that coats counters with wax.
* May change cutting knives, using wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that simultaneously trims leather shoe parts to size, punches perforations, and marks stitching outline. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts specified die to ram or bed of machine, using wrench.
* Brushes ink on roller which marks stitch outline on part.
* Positions part on machine and presses pedal to start machine.
* Stacks processed parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts out decorative designs or ventilating holes in shoe parts by any of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Clips guide plate on machine bed and turns knobs to adjust position.
* Clamps hammer block or punch in machine head.
* Aligns part, such as saddle, strap, or vamp on guide plate and starts machine that cuts designs or holes in part.
* May adjust machine to accelerate reciprocal action of punch or to regulate cutting pressure of head.
* (2) Positions die plate on machine and clips shoe part on plate.
* Pushes plate on rails under machine head and starts machine that cuts designs or holes in parts.
* When operating machine equipped with punch, may be designated perforator.
* May be designated according to part cut as buckle-strap puncher; strap hole puncher; tip puncher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically cuts cartridges (strips) from continuous sheet of plastic floor covering material emerging from calender machine.
* Places cartridges, separated by cloths, on buggy for transportation to floor covering press.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power shear that cuts sheets of material, such as paper, pressboard, foil, cardboard, cork, or plastic material to specified dimension for items, such as cartons, wrappers, labels, business forms, or gaskets. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts guides on machine to regulate width of cut according to work order, following calibrated scale on machine bed or using ruler.
* Positions and aligns sheets against guides and presses lever to clamp sheets to bed of machine prior to cutting.
* Presses button(s) or moves lever controls to force shear blade through sheets.
* Adjusts guides and repositions material to trim or square edges to specifications.
* May change shear blade, using handtools.
* May be designated according to type of material cut as cardboard cutter; plastic sheets cutter; paper cutter.
* May cut material manually, using hand-powered shear, and be designated hand paper cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machine that cuts wavy or zigzag designs in outsoles for rubber footwear to provide nonskid surface. Responsibilities include:
* Positions sole on slide carriage under blade and between spring clamps that hold ends of sole to carriage.
* Starts machine and moves lever to depress cutter that automatically cuts single row to set depth in vertical reciprocating action.
* Moves lever to raise cutter, depresses pedal to return carriage to starting position, and repeats process to cut additional rows.
* Releases clamps to replace finished workpiece.
* Examines depth of cut, using mold mark on sole edge as guide, and raises or lowers blade, using wrench to adjust depth.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts sheets or strands of plastic material into cubes or pellets for packaging. Responsibilities include:
* Observes feed of material from cooling unit into machine, and adjusts speed of cutters to cut pellets to specified size.
* May tend auxiliary equipment, such as tumbler dryer.
* May bag pellets.
Industry:Professional careers
