What does a slitterman do?

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A slitterman is someone who operates slitting machines. A slitting machine is used to cut sheets of material. The material could be anything, paper, leather, cloth, acetate, steel, you name it. Anything that is produced in sheets usually needs to be slitted.

Slitting machines generally have a series of rollers which feed the material to a series of slitting saws or disks which are arranged in parallel.

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Modern slitting machine slitting sheet steel.

Once I heard of this accident where a slitterman tried to correct something while a machine was running and got caught on the wheels and was dragged into the machine. Gruesome.

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An advertisment in the The Milwaukee Journal (Jan 15, 1949) suggests that a slitter man is a person that works with setting the knives on a paper corrugating machine.

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