Hand-press

A press which is worked by hand, in contradistinction to one which works automatically by machinery. It is usual to call the first a press, and the latter a machine, although in strictness both are machines and both are presses. In the hand-press the turning down the tympan, running in the carriage, effecting the impression, bringing back the carriage, and raising the tympan again, are performed by manual labour; whereas in a “machine” they are performed by certain arrangements of bands and wheels.