A professional who tends machine that passes cloth (usually woolen) between rollers and steam-jacketed enclosure to press and remove wrinkles from cloth. Respnsibilities include:

• Sews end of cloth to leader in machine, using portable sewing machine.
• Turns wheel to adjust guides according to width of cloth.
• Turns thumbscrew to regulate pressure of steam jacket for type of cloth and finish specified.
• Turns valve to admit steam if cloth is to be dampened before pressing.
• Observes cloth feeding into machine to detect and remove foreign matter.
• Places empty truck under swing-folding attachment and doffs full truck or removes full rolls from machine brackets, using chain hoist.
• May measure width of cloth after pressing and turn wheel to adjust spread roller that controls width of finished cloth.