Compression apparatus

Claim 1

COMPRESSION APPARATUS COMPRISING A PRESS FOR COMPRESSING AN ITEM HEIGHTWISE, LATERALLY AND ENDWISE, SAID PRESS COMPRISING A BED, A BOTTOM PLATEN SLIDABLE REARWARD ON THE BED AWAY FROM A FORWARD OPEN POSITION AND BACK TO OPEN POSITION, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID BOTTOM PLATEN AWAY FROM AND BACK TO OPEN POSITION, A DEPRESSIBLE SIDE ABUTMENT MOVABLE WITH THE BOTTOM PLATEN AS IT SLIDES ON THE BED, A SIDE PLATEN MOVABLE AWAY FROM AN OPEN POSITION TOWARD THE SIDE ABUTMENT ACROSS THE BOTTOM PLATEN AND BACK TO THE OPEN POSITION, MEANS FOR MOVING THE SIDE PLATEN AWAY FROM AND BACK TO OPEN POSITION, A VERTICALLY MOVABLE HEAD, MEANS FOR MOVING THE HEAD DOWNWARD AWAY FROM AN OPEN POSITION AND BACK UPWARD TO OPEN POSITION, A REARWARD END ABUTMENT CARRIED BY THE HEAD AND SLIDABLY MOUNTED ON THE HEAD SO AS TO ALLOW CONTINUED DOWNWARD MOVEMENT OF THE HEAD AFTER ENGAGEMENT OF THE REARWARD END ABUTMENT WITH THE BOTTOM PLATEN, AND A DEPRESSIBLE FORWARD END PLATEN MOVABLE WITH THE BOTTOM PLATEN AS IT SLIDES ON THE BED, SAID PLATENS AND ABUTMENTS DEFINING A MOLDING CHAMBER, SAID HEAD ON DOWNWARD MOVEMENT COMPRESSING AN ITEM IN SAID CHAMBER HEIGHTWISE, SAID SIDE PLATEN ON MOVEMENT AWAY FROM OPEN POSITION COMPRESSING AN ITEM IN SAID CHAMBER LATERALLY AGAINST SAID SIDE ABUTMENT, AND SAID FORWARD END PLATEN ON REARWARD MOVEMENT WITH SAID BOTTOM PLATEN COMPRESSING AN ITEM IN SAID CHAMBER ENDWISE AGAINST SAID REARWARD END ABUTMENT, SAID FORWARD END PLATEN BEING REMOVABLE TO A RETRACTED POSITION OPENING UP THE FRONT OF THE CHAMBER SO THAT AN ITEM MAY BE FED INTO SAID CHAMBER FROM THE FRONT, AND MEANS FOR MOVING SAID FORWARD END PLATEN TO ITS SAID RETRACTED POSITION, SAID REARWARD END ABUTMENT BEING RAISED ON UPWARD MOVEMENT OF SAID HEAD TO OPEN POSITION SO THAT AN ITEM MAY BE DISCHARGED FROM SAID CHAMBER AT THE REAR.