A professional who replaces worn clothing on carding machine cylinders, employing knowledge of machine operation and carding process. Respnsibilities include:

• Removes worn clothing and aligns, levels, and spaces cylinder evenly on machine frame.
• Marks cylinder to indicate location of wooden plugs and replaces defective plugs, using handtools.
• Cleans surface of cylinder with solvent to remove oil and rust.
• Tapers end of card clothing fillets with knife so strips can be wound parallel over circumference of cylinder.
• Tacks end of fillet to cylinder plugs and guides fillet as fillet is wound onto cylinder, packing each strand tightly against preceding strand.
• Tacks fillet to cylinder at specified intervals along chalked line.
• May grind reclothed cylinder.