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       CODE: 586.662-010 Buy the DOT:Download/CD-ROM
TITLE(s): FELTING-MACHINE OPERATOR (tex. prod., nec) alternate titles: hardening-machine operator;
lay-up presser
Operates felting machine to attach reinforcing burlap to felt strips or to compress several layers
of felt by means of heat and pressure: Suspends roll of burlap and two bats of felt over
conveyor belt. Starts conveyor and unrolls felt strips, with burlap strip between felt strips, onto
conveyor. Opens steam valves or water sprays to moisten felt passing through steam chamber or
beneath sprays. Stops conveyor when bed of hydraulic press is covered by felt strip. Opens steam
valves to heat press bed. Starts oscillating hydraulic ram that compresses felt. Laps end of felt
bat to ends of other bats to form continuous strip. Plucks foreign matter from felt surfaces with
tweezers and spreads loose felt over thin spots to produce uniform products. Straightens layers of
stock on press bed to remove wrinkled stock.
GOE: 06.02.05 STRENGTH: M GED: R3 M2 L3 SVP: 4 DLU: 77
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