Auto body salvage press

Claim 1

AN AUTOMOBILE BODY SALVAGE PRESS, COMPRISING: (A) A FLOOR SUPPORTING BASE SURFACE, A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR DIMENSIONALLY CHANGEABLE UNOBSTRUCTED COMPRESSION CHAMBER HAVING A PAIR OF UPSTANDING GENERALLY OPPOSED, SPACED-APART, PARALLEL AND TRANSVERSELY MOVABLE SIDE COMPRESSION WALLS ON SAID BASE SURFACE, EACH OF SAID SIDE COMPRESION WALLS INCLUDING A FIRST ACTUATING MEANS THEREFOR, A TOP PRESSURE WALL MEANS BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALLS, SAID TOP WALL MEANS BEING HINGEDLY ANCHORED AT ONE END AND INCLUDING SECOND ACTUATING MEANS FOR MOVING IT ABOUT ITS HINGED ENDS, A RAM MEMBER AT ONE END OF AND MOVABLE LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBER AND INCLUDING THIRD ACTUATING MEANS THEREFOR; (B) FIRST ANTIFRICTION MEANS IN SAID BASE SURFACE FOR CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF SAID SIDE COMPRESSION WALLS; (C) A DISCHARGE TUNNEL MEANS ON SAID BASE SURFACE COAXIALLY DISPOSED AT THE END OF SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBER OPPOSITE SAID RAM MEMBER AND HAVING PRESSURE SPRING BACKED TOP AND SIDE PLATES; AND (D) SECOND ANTI-FRICTION MEANS ON THE INNER SURFACES OF SAID TOP AND SIDE PLATES FOR PERMITTING A COMPACTED BODY TO MOVE OUT OF SAID COMPRESSION CHAMBER AND THROUGH SAID DISCHARGE TUNNEL MEANS.