A professional who tends equipment that bleaches and washes cooked rags used in making paper. Respnsibilities include:

• Turns valve to fill vat with water.
• Dumps specified quantities of chlorine, lime, and alum into vat to prepare bleaching solution.
• Places rags in solution to bleach them for specified length of time.
• Turns valve to drain solution from vat.
• Sets controls to regulate flow of water into vat to wash bleach solution from rags.
• Starts roller to pick up and eject dirty water from vat.
• Turns valve to drain wash water from vat.
• Removes rags from vat and places them in seasoning bin.