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Claim 1

FOR USE WITH A VENEERING PRESS HAVING AT LEAST TWO PRESS PLATENS BETWEEN WHICH A DAYLIGHT IS PROVIDED, A LOADING ARRANGEMENT OPERABLE TO SUPPLY A SUBSTANTIALLY PLANE WORKPIECE FROM A POSITION OUTSIDE SAID DAYLIGHT TO A POSITION BETWEEN SAID PRESS PLATENS COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: A HOLLOW LOADING TABLE HAVING AN UPPER PART PROVIDED WITH SPACED RIB MEANS, SAID HOLLOW TABLE BEING EFFECTIVE TO SUPPORT SAID WORKPIECE OUTSIDE SAID PRESS, SAID TABLE FURTHER COMPRISING A LOWER PART PARALLEL TO AND CONNECTED WITH SAID UPPER PART BY WALL MEANS, MEANS OPERABLE TO MOVE SAID TABLE WITH SAID WORKPIECE SUPPORTED THEREON TO A POSITION INSIDE SAID DAYLIGHT, A PLURALITY OF ENDLESS V-BELTS SUPPORTED BY SAID TABLE, THE UPPER RUNS OF SAID BELTS BEING DISPOSED ON SAID UPPER PART OF SAID TABLE BETWEEN SAID RIB MEANS AND IN CONTACT WITH SAID UPPER PART, THE LOWER RUNS OF SAID BELTS BEING SUPPORTED BY SAID LOWER PART, MEANS OPERABLE TO RETRACT SAID TABLE FROM ITS POSITION WITHIN SAID PRESS DAYLIGHT, AND MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY OPERATING SAID BELTS TO EFFECTIVELY DEPOSIT SAID WORKPIECE INSIDE SAID DAYLIGHT, THE SPEED OF SAID WORKPIECE WHILE BEING DEPOSITED BEING SUBSTANTIALLY ZERO IN HORIZONTAL DIRECTION.