A professional who feeds hat sweatbands into flanging machine that turns edge of sweatband to fit contour of hat body. Responsibilities include:

• Inserts sweatband between rollers and against guide on machine bed.
• Depresses pedal to start machine.
• Feeds part into rotating rollers and into slot of guide that turns bottom edge of sweatband.
• May be designated according to type of sweatband material flanged as leather flanger.