A professional who operates machine, equipped with electrically heated knives, to cut synthetic cloth into binding strips and fuses edges to prevent raveling by melting cloth fibers. Responsibilities include:

• Spaces knives on machine shaft, according to specified strip width, and turns setscrews to secure knives in position, using wrench.
• Mounts cloth roll on machine supports and threads cloth through machine units.
• Laps end of material around takeup tubes i.
• Turns dial to regulate temperature of knives and starts machine.
• Observes operation to detect faulty cutting and winding.
• Removes narrow rolls of material following process.
• Replaces defective knives, using handtools and spacing gauges.