A professional who sets up and operates battery of machines to produce quilted and laminated padding from batting. Responsibilities include:

• Places rolls of batting and burlap base in feed holders of machine.
• Aligns and threads ends of material through machine.
• Turns handwheels to heat calender roll.
• Threads needles of quilting machine that binds batting to base to form padding.
• Turns air valve that activates stationary spray gun to spray binder to surface of padding.
• Aligns end of second roll of batting to sprayed surface under pressure roll to form laminated padding.
• Turns handwheels to position circular knives that trim padding to specified width.
• Turns knobs to adjust electric eye controlled mechanism which automatically cuts padding to specified length, drops on layer of gauze, and cuts and laps gauze over pads.
• Starts spray gun that sizes pad to hold covering in place.
• Turns knobs to synchronize speed of machine and starts machine.
• Replaces broken needles.
• Fills tanks with specified size.
• Places rolls of narrow reinforcing batting in holder and guides under needles when specified.
• Sews together burlap and gauze, and laps together batting to form continuous roll.