A professional who tends machine that garnetts waste yarn and fibers and compresses garnetted fibers into rolls of felt, batting, or padding. Responsibilities include:

• Moves weight on lever of automatic feeder to control amount of waste material fed into machine and weight of product produced.
• Spaces knives on either side of delivery end of machine according to width specified for rolls.
• Turns handwheel to increase or decrease space between compressor roller according to thickness specified for product.
• Threads end of garnetted material through folding device that spreads layers of material on delivery table preparatory to winding web into rolls.