How do they match: Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

Operate steam, hydraulic, or other pressing machines to remove wrinkles from garments and flatwork items, or to shape, form, or patch articles.
Activate and adjust machine controls to regulate temperature and pressure of rollers, ironing shoes, or plates, according to specifications.
Clean and maintain pressing machines, using cleaning solutions and lubricants.
Finish pleated garments, determining sizes of pleats from evidence of old pleats or from work orders, using machine presses or hand irons.
Insert heated metal forms into ties and touch up rough places with hand irons.
Lower irons, rams, or pressing heads of machines into position over material to be pressed.
Position materials such as cloth garments, felt, or straw on tables, dies, or feeding mechanisms of pressing machines, or on ironing boards or work tables.
Press ties on small pressing machines.
Remove finished pieces from pressing machines and hang or stack them for cooling, or forward them for additional processing.
Select appropriate pressing machines, based on garment properties such as heat tolerance.
Select, install, and adjust machine components, including pressing forms, rollers, and guides, using hoists and hand tools.
Sew ends of new material to leaders or to ends of material in pressing machines, using sewing machines.
Slide material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped forms to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat pressers or hand irons.

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