Abstract: A press for securing a plurality of workpiece elements in substantially coplanar, side-by-side, pressurized engagement during a gluing operation. The press comprises a bed, a retaining wall adjacent one edge of the bed, a plurality of pusher shoes mounted adjacent an opposite edge of the bed, and a top platen which is positionable in substantially parallel, spaced relation to the bed and has a plurality of spaced platen fingers along one edge thereof for receiving the pusher shoes in interfitting relation between the fingers. The press is operable for maintaining a plurality of workpiece elements in substantially coplanar relation between the bed and the top platen, and because the pusher shoes are receivable between the platen fingers, it is simultaneously operable thereto for urging the workpiece elements into pressurized engagement with each other between the pusher shoes and the retaining wall.