A professional who tends machine that burns out (dissolves) connecting threads in knitted lace to separate lace into individual bands. Respnsibilities include:

• Loads beams of lace onto rack.
• Pushes rack into machine chamber and bolts door, using wrench.
• Turns valve to transfer acid solution from still to machine.
• Presses button to start rotation of lace in acid bath that dissolves connecting threads.
• Removes lace from machine for further processing.
• May tend still to reclaim solvents for reuse.