A professional who tends machines that comb lap ii or sliver to remove short fibers, neps, and dirt and to straighten and align fibers. Responsibilities include:

• Lifts lap onto holders or positions cans of sliver at rear of machine.
• Threads lap or sliver between feeder rollers, combing and drawing rollers, through gathering eyes, coiler head, and into cans.
• Pieces up fresh lap or sliver to end of preceding one.
• Pieces up breaks, and replaces cans of sliver or rolls of lap.
• Removes full cans of processed sliver from coiler head and pushes cans to designated area to await further processing.
• Observes signal lights to detect sliver breaks, machine malfunctions, and exhausting cans of unprocessed sliver.
• Pulls lap-ups of fibers from rollers, using hook.
• May empty bin of waste materials combed out of fibers.