A professional who tends machine equipped with electric knife or rotary shear that cuts cloth into specified lengths and folds lengths for use in making bags. Responsibilities include:

• Places roll of cloth on brackets of machine and threads cloth between feed rollers or sews cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Cuts cloth, using either of following methods:
• (1) Moves slotted bar specified distance from folding bar to obtain length of cut and tightens setscrew to secure bar.
• Starts machine that moves cloth over slotted bar.
• Pushes electric knife along slot to cut cloth into lengths.
• (2) Changes gears of machine, using wrenches, or turns dial to set feeding speed of machine that controls length of cut.
• Starts machine that automatically cuts cloth into lengths, folds lengths, and deposits folded cloth on catch-bar of machine.
• Periodically removes folded cloth accumulated on catch-bar and stacks cloth on handtruck.
• Measures cloth lengths, using rule.
• Records yardage cut.
• May be designated according to type of bag cut as cotton-bag-cutting-machine operator; jute-bag-cutting-machine operator; waterproof-bag-cutting-machine operator.