Wood panel press

Claim 1

A PRESS FOR LATERALLY COMPRESSING TOGETHER ELONGATED PANEL COMPONENTS, THE PRESS COMPRISING: A FRAME, A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL UPPER PLATEN MOUNTED ON THE FRAME AND CAPABLE OF BEING ADJUSTED TO AND FIXED AT DIFFERENT VERTICAL LOCATIONS WITH RESPET TO THE FRAME, A LOWER PLATEN PARALLEL WITH THE UPPER PLATEN AND VERTICALLY MOVABLE UPWARDLY TOWARD AND DOWNWARDLY AWAY FROM THE UPPER PLATEN, FEED MEANS ADAPTED TO INTRODUCE PANEL COMPONENTS BETWEEN SAID PLATENS ALONG A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE WHICH IS FIXED WITH RESPECT TO THE FRAME, THE LOWER PLATEN BEING ADAPTED TO RESST, DURING THE INTRODUCTION OF PANEL COMPONENTS BETWEEN THE PLATENS, AT A VERTICAL LOCATION WHEREIN IT IS SUBSTANTIALLY ALOGNED WITH SAID PLANE, IN WHICH CONDITION THE PLATENS ARE OPEN. FIRST MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY EXERTING AN UPWARD FORCE UPON THE LOWR PLATEN FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLACING THE LATTER FROM SAID VERTICAL LOCATION UPWARDLY TOWARD THE UPPER PLATEN TO CLOSE THE PLATENS, THEREBY VERTICALLY TO COMPRESS BETWEEN THE PLATENSS PANEL COMPONENTS INTRODUCED THEREBETWEEN, AND SECOND MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY HORIZONTALLY COMPRESSING TOGETHER PANEL COMPONENTS THAT ARE BETWEEN THE CLOSED PLATENS.