KNOTT’S POP-CORN HAND PRESS

This hand press is rugged, simple and efficient.

You bolt it to a bench with the arch twenty inches from the front edge of the bench. Slip in the plate for pan work, and fasten it in place by means of cap screw. Slide a pan under and screw down plate into pan. This locates the pan so that you can bring against it the three guides, two sides and back; tighten them in place so that you can slide the pan in between them and bring the press down without danger of the plate coming down on the edge of pan.

Do not press your pop-corn too solid; it does not eat as well and takes more stock per box.

Put the three sets of round cake plungers on the press cross-bar, locating them by putting the mould plate under the press and fastening them by tightening the cap screws. Adjust and clamp the guides each side and at the back of mould plate, so that when you fill it you can slide it in and bring the plungers down without their striking on the edges.

You may put a block under each end of the press cross-bar against the inside of the arch as a stop to regulate the thickness of your cakes.

Three plunger castings are made with small cap screws to fasten them on top of the bench.

Use them to push the cakes out of the mould plate, by pushing this plate down over them.