A professional who operates machines to replace worn clothing on carding machine flats and to align, grind, and burnish flats. Respnsibilities include:

• Strips worn clothing from flats, using handtools, and rubs flats with sandpaper to remove rust.
• Places stripped flat in jig and moves level gauge across length of flat to detect flats that are out of alignment.
• Straightens bent flats, using lever or hammer.
• Places flats in milling machine to shape ends of flats to correspond with bends on which flats slide on carding machine.
• Places flats in jig of rolling press, positions clothing assembly over flats, and starts rolling press that moves over length of flat, shaping and clamping clothing clip to flat.
• Places clothed flats in bed of grinding machine, lowers grinding head over flats, and starts machine that grinds wire points to uniform length.
• Removes ground flats from machine after specified length of time, places flats in bed of burnishing machine, and starts burnishing wheel that removes burrs caused by grinding.
• Dusts rust preventative on reclothed flats, assembles flats in sets, and packs sets in crates.
• Wraps and seals crates in plastic material and attaches shipping label to crate.