A professional who tends machine that guides cloth in rope form into storage bins or processing tanks in pleat-like folds to prevent tangling during subsequent removal. Respnsibilities include:

• Threads cloth through poteyes, over rollers, through sleeve of pleating mechanism, and into bin or tank.
• Starts machine and turns knob to adjust pleating device so that cloth piles in even layers.
• May guide cloth with wooden stick or by hand.
• May sew ends of cloth together, using portable sewing machine.
• May be designated according to process as sour-bleaching pleater.