CODE: 687.685-014Buy the DOT:Download/CD-ROM
TITLE(s): TUFTING-MACHINE OPERATOR (furniture) alternate titles: button-tufting-machine operator

Tends machine that button-tufts mattresses: Adjusts needle stroke and button tying mechanism to thickness of mattress. Fills machine hopper with tufting buttons. Places mattress on movable table of machine and turns wheel to adjust distance between mattress and machine head. Presses button to start machine and moves table laterally, forward, and backward to space tufts as machine head inserts tufts into both sides. May tend machine that automatically moves table and tufts mattress, or semiautomatic machine that requires lever operation for each stroke. May tend machine that tufts with knots. May tuft by hand [TUFTER, HAND (furniture)].
GOE: 06.04.05 STRENGTH: M GED: R2 M1 L2 SVP: 3 DLU: 77