Button And Notion - Occupations Duties

Artificial flower Maker Occupation

Job Duties:

• Cuts out assembles materials, like fabric, wood, and paper, performing any combination of following tasks to make artificial foliage, like flowers, wreaths, and trees
• Cuts out flower parts, like leaves petals from paper, fabric, or plastic, using handtools, like scissors, knives, hammers and dies
• Stamp out flower parts with hand operated or power driven machine
• Place roll of material on spindle of machine that automatically forms artificial flower stems
• Print veining on artificial leaves, using stamps handpress
• Dips flowers into specified dye squeezes out excess dye, using hands
• Fasten twigs buds to steel wire to form branches by hand or using twisting machine
• Wire or glues flower parts to stem or branch
• Fasten artificial flowers and foliage to wreath stand and inserts cones grass decorations to form artificial wreath
• May wrap stems with green brown paper to effect natural appearance
• May be designated according to product produced as Wreath And Garland Maker, Hand button and notion , or shape artificial flower petals from fabric, using tweezers, heated metal ball, and wooden form, and be designated Petal Shaper, Hand button notion .

Assembler Slide Fastener Stringers Occupation

Job Duties:

• Join together stringers sides of slide fasteners, using slider jig
• Align links of stringer with links of other stringer inserts ends of stringers in slider jig
• Pull ends of stringers through jig to interlock links
• Examine fastener for defects, like crooked, broken, flattened, or misaligned links
• Cuts out defective section, using scissors, and splices sections, using adhesive tape or hand stapler
• May sew sections together to prevent raveling, using serging sewing machine
• May tend machine rollers that pull stringers through jig.

Automatic fancy machine Operator Occupation

Job Duties:

• Tend automatic machines that cut ornamental designs into face of nonmetallic button blanks
• Load blanks into machine hopper, using hand scoop
• Start machine observes feeding, cutting and indexing mechanisms
• Remove jammed blanks from feed chute, using wire pick
• May remove and replace worn cutters abrasive wheels, using wrenches
• May place blanks by hand in chucks of semiautomatic, manually indexed machine
• May examine samples for finishing defects.

Buckle Assembler Occupation

Job Duties:

• Brush glue over surface of metal buckle frames presses precut leather or fabric over frame
• Trim excess material with shears.

Buckle Coverer Occupation

Job Duties:

• Brush glue over surface of metal buckle frames presses precut leather or fabric over frame
• Trim excess material with shears.

Buckle frame Shaper Occupation

Job Duties:

• Tend automatic machine that cuts shapes wire or fabric-covered wire to form bars, prongs, and buckle frames
• Adjust forming head according to product specified, using handtools
• Position reel of wire on machine spindle draws end of wire through guides to forming head
• Insert wire against stop depresses treadle-switch to start machine
• Observe automatic feeding of wire into machine or holds switch down with foot advances wire against stop as specified item is cut, formed, and ejected
• May pull levers of hand-bending machine to shape sample items.

Buckle Gluer Occupation

Job Duties:

• Brush glue over surface of metal buckle frames presses precut leather or fabric over frame
• Trim excess material with shears.

Buckle Inspector Occupation

Job Duties:

• Examine finished metal buckles clasps for defects, like bent or broken parts, dents, scratches, and plating or lacquering imperfections
• Sets aside defective buckles for rework
• Place protective plastic tip over buckle prong
• Wrap specified number of buckles in tissue paper preparatory to packaging
• May count weigh sample lot, using scale, to ascertain weight per gross, in order that items may be packaged by weight rather than by actual count.

Buckle Sorter Occupation

Job Duties:

• Sort metal buckles and parts according to size kind, and removes bent or broken ones
• Dump container of buckles on bench separates them into piles or containers
• Remove pieces of tumbling-barrel shot jammed in buckles, using metal pick.

Buckle wire Inserter Occupation

Job Duties:

• Push reinforcing wire through tubular material for use in making buckle frames
• Cuts off material to match length of reinforcing wire, using scissors.