DOT Code: 580.685-042

Industry: hat & cap
Alternate Titles: brim molder; stamper

Tends machine that presses hat-body material, such as crinoline, paper, or buckram between dies to form hat crowns or cap visors: Places sheets of precut material between layers of wet cardboard or dampens material with sponge to soften material preparatory to pressing. Stretches softened material over heated crown-shaped lower die and depresses pedal, causing upper die to descend and press material into shape of hat crown.

GOE: 06.04.05 STRENGTH: L GED: R2 M1 L1 SVP: 4 DLU: 77