Abstract: A loader safety device for a tire curing press that has a frame with a pair of vertically extending side members and a support platform operatively mounted on the side members for vertical movement, and a tire-engaging device mounted on the support platform, wherein a cylinder with a piston rod operatively extending therefrom is positioned on the frame and its piston rod operatively engages a carriage movably mounted on the frame for movement laterally thereof, the cylinder-piston rod unit control the position of the carriage on the top portion of the frame; and a rotary device is mounted on the carriage with a flexible device being operatively anchored at one end to the frame and extending to and engaging the support platform at its other end, which support device operatively engages the rotary device so as to raise and lower the support platform with respective extension and retraction of the piston rod by pressures in the control cylinder.