A professional who tends semiautomatic press that attaches metal stops to slide fastener stringers. Responsibilities include:

• Fills machine hopper with stops.
• Inserts stringer between press jaws and depresses pedal to drive prongs of stop through tape.
• Pulls chain through dies to machine stop to position stringer for next stroke.
• Picks jammed or defective stops from feeder tube, or hopper, using metal pick or tweezers.
• May tend machine that automatically punches, forms, and attaches stop to stringer.
• May hold zipper on anvil of power press by hand and depress pedal to attach stops to individual zipper.
• May be designated according to location of stop as bottom-stop attacher; top-stop attacher.
• May attach hardware to zipper and be designated according to type of hardware attached as box attacher; bridge attacher; pin attacher.