A professional who tends machine that washes endless ropes of woolen piece goods. Respnsibilities include:

• Threads cloth over reel, between guides, and through feed rollers.
• Sews ends of cloth together to form endless rope, using sewing machine or by hand.
• Turns valves to fill tub with water and to control steam for heating solution.
• Pours liquid detergents into tub, following specifications.
• Starts machine that revolves piece goods over reel and through solution for specified period of time.
• Turns valves to drain solution from tub and to fill tub with rinse water.
• Ravels seams to separate cloth ends after rinsing, laps end of cloth over reel, and starts reel to transfer cloth from machine to handtruck.