A professional who inspects greige corduroy or velvet cloth to detect uncut filling floats, and cuts floats, using pickup knife. Responsibilities include:

• Positions truck of cloth at entry end of examining frame and pins end of cloth to leader in machine.
• Depresses pedal to start machine that passes cloth over inspection board, and scans cloth for uncut floats missed by corduroy-cutter operator.
• Inserts point of pickup knife under floats and cuts threads.
• Doffs cloth from swing-folding attachment onto handtruck.
• Records yardage of cloth inspected.