A professional who tends machine that reduces rags and yarn waste to fiber for reuse. Responsibilities include:

• Feeds armfuls of waste into hopper of automatic feeder or opens and closes gates of blower pipes or conveyors when waste feeds from other machines.
• Starts machine and wraps end of garnetted web around takeup roller to form lap ii or threads end of condensed web through coiler head to form sliver.
• Observes garnetting to detect clogged rollers or breaks in web.
• Pieces up breaks in web and disentangles clogged rollers by hand.
• Doffs laps or cans of garnetted material from delivery end of machine.
• Weighs laps or cans of material and records weight on production records.
• May tend garnett machine equipped with pneumatic conveyors that blow stock into storage bins or subsequent machine hoppers.
• May tend picking machine in tandem with garnett machine.