A professional who tends equipment that removes (strips) accumulated cotton fibers adhering to wire teeth of carding and doffing drums, using any of following methods. Responsibilities include:

• (1) Positions stripping roller in brackets of carding machine so that wire teeth of roller project between wire teeth of carding cylinder.
• Starts machine, allowing stripping roller to revolve rapidly and remove fiber from slowly revolving card cylinder.
• May use stripping roll hood and suction pipe leading to handtruck to dispose of dust and lint (dustless stripping).
• (2) Moves lever to position built-in stripping roll so that wire teeth contact teeth of cylinder.
• Opens suction line to draw away lint collected by roll.
• (3) Places stripper nozzles of vacuum stripper attachment at side of carding cylinder and doffing drum.
• Starts machine to move stripper across cylinder, drawing dust into nozzle.
• May tend carding machines.
• May assist in grinding card rolls.