Platens

The upper die is fixed -- being firmly attached to the top of the frame, and held securely down by the rows of iron pillars on the two sides, and by the massive iron caps, called platens, which may be seen passing across at the top, from pillar to pillar. ❋ Various (N/A)

There were hundreds of such employees, a shadow workforce spending its days moving books onto and off the scanning platens. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)

Consisting of the browns and yellows of platens and mulberries and pomegranates and the lighter red and orange of apricots, apples and pears, thereby also hoping to extend the tourist season into these florid months. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While in that position steam is let into the upper and lower platens and the matting is cured. ❋ Various (N/A)

The owners installed a block making plant fully equipped with curing racks, two Ideal machines, two National concrete mixers, 5 h.p. gasoline engine, platens, tools and a Chase industrial railway. ❋ Halbert Powers Gillette (N/A)

I have a couple of platens in the shops here; but we shan't be able to take a pull until to-morrow morning, I'm afraid. ❋ Unknown (1910)

When it is desired to use the open press the doors and box can be easily removed without disturbing the other parts, and extra platens are furnished for the open bales. ❋ N.C. Charlotte (1890)

Once inside, the trams are enveloped within enormous screens, their size equaling an area equivalent to 16 conventional movie screens and rest atop steel platens that provide a powerful motion base. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In breaking concrete test cylinders, I use a hydraulic press that is made of heavy steel construction, and the cylinders, with appropriate caps, are compressed between two special steel platens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a resistance welding machine, the unobstructed work clearance between horns or platens at right angles to the throat depth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a resistance welding machine, the distance from the centerline of the electrodes or platens to the nearest point of interference for flatwork or sheets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All of Thomas Dudley's Battenfeld moulding machines benefit from magnetic platens and fast mould-change systems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the harsh environment of metalforming and shearing press applications, the magnetostrictive sensors are embedded inside the hydraulic cylinders controlling movement of the machine platens that press the metal into sheet form. ❋ Unknown (2009)