A professional who tends machine equipped with series of brushing units that raise and set pile of such fabrics as corduroy and velvet. Respnsibilities include:

• Pushes truck or roll of cloth into feeding position.
• Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Turns crank to set width guides according to width of cloth.
• Starts machine and observes cloth to detect grease spots, holes, or torn selvages as cloth is drawn between rollers and brushes.
• Turns valve to admit water into trough of wet brushing unit.
• May doff cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.