Temperature-controlled press

Claim 1

IN A PRESS HAVING AN UPRIGHT FRAME WITH AN UPPER AND A LOWER CROSS-MEMBER AND A PLURALITY OF RELATIVELY DISPLACEABLE PLATENS BETWEEN SAID CROSS-MEMBERS FOR THE COMPRESSION OF FLAT GOODS THEREBETWEEN AT A TEMPERATURE DIFFERENT FROM AMBIENT, THE COMBINATION THEREWITH OF: A FIXED END MEMBER INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID PLATENS AND ONE OF SAID CROSS-MEMBERS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE LATER, AND A MOVABLE END MEMBER INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID PLATENS AND THE OTHER OF SAID CROSSMEMBERS, EACH OF SAID END MEMBERS CONSISTING OF AN OUTER FLANGE REMOTE FROM SAID PLATENS, AN INNER FLANGE ADJACENT THE RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID PLATENS AND STIFFENING WEB MEANS BETWEEN SAID FLANGES, SAID OUTER AND INNER FLANGES BEING RESPECTIVELY PROVIDED WITH A FIRST AND A SECOND SET OF INTERNAL FLUID PASSAGES UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED THEREIN; FLUID-OPERATED DRIVE MEANS BEARING DIRECTLY UPON SAID MOVABLE END MEMBER AND SAID OTHER OF SAID CROSSMEMBERS;