A professional who tends machine that pulls false selvages and waste filling floats from looped pile fabric. Responsibilities include:

• Lifts roll of cloth into feeding position and pins end of cloth to leader in machine.
• Positions false selvage between feed rollers on each side of machine.
• Starts machine and observes flow of cloth to detect oblique twist due to unequal tension on cloth.
• Depresses pedal to release tension on leading selvage and allow lagging selvage to catch up.
• Doffs rolls of cloth and full boxes of filling waste.