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PRESS APPARATUS COMPRISING A FIRST SUPPORT HAVING A FREE END AND A CONNECTED END, A SECOND SUPPORT HAVING A FREE END AND A CONNECTED END, MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING SAID SUPPORTS TOGETHER AT THEIR CONNECTED ENDS TO PERMIT THE FREE ENDS OF SAID SUPPORTS TO BE MOVED TO AN OPERATIVE RELATION IN WHICH THEY ARE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AND TO A RETRACTED RELATION IN WHICH THEY ARE REMOTE FROM EACH OTHER, A FIRST PRESSURE MEMBER MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST SUPPORT NEAR ITS FREE END FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID SUPPORT, A SECOND PRESSURE MEMBER CARRIED BY SAID SECOND SUPPORT NEAR ITS FREE END, AN ACTUATING MEMBER MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST SUPPORT FOR MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO THE SUPPORT BETWEEN TWO POSITIONS, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID ACTUATING MEMBER TO SAID FIRST PRESSURE MEMBER SO THAT WHEN SAID ACTUATING MEMBER IS IN ONE OF ITS POSITIONS SAID FIRST PRESSURE MEMBER IS IN A WITHDRAWN POSITION CLOSER TO SAID FIRST SUPPORT AND WHEN SAID ACTUATING MEMBER IS IN ITS OTHER POSITION SAID PRESSURE MEMBER IS IN ITS EXTENDED POSITION AWAY FROM SAID FIRST SUPPORT, MEANS RELEASABLY HOLDING SAID SUPPORTS WITH THEIR FREE ENDS IN OPERATIVE RELATION, MEANS FOR PIVOTALLY MOVING SAID SUPPORTS RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER TO LOCATE THEIR FREE ENDS IN RETRACTED RELATION, AND MEANS FOR RELEASING SAID HOLDING MEANS AS SAID FIRST PRESSURE MEMBER MOVES TO ITS WITHDRAWN POSITION RELATIVE TO SAID FIRST SUPPORT TO PERMIT SAID SUPPORTS TO MOVE PIVOTALLY AWAY FROM EACH OTHER TOWARD THE POSITION IN WHICH THEIR FREE ENDS ARE IN RETRACTED RELATION.