Image by Ken Stone, MIT Hobby Shop
Spindle - The screw to which the bar of the press is affixed, and which produces the pressure on the platen.
Head - That part of a wooden press in which the nut of the spindle is fixed.
Nut
Till, or Shelf - A mahogany shelf, in wooden presses, divided in two longitudinally, that clasps the hose, and causes it and the spindle to come down perpendicularly without any play.
Hose - Two upright bars of iron that connected the garter and the hose hooks, and went through the till.
Platen - The platen is that part of the machine which comes down upon the form, and, being acted upon by the spindle, produces the impression.
