In operation a slice of de-aired clay body is placed in between two shaped porous moulds, and vertical movement of the moulds presses the body into the required shape.
The RAM process was devised around 1945 by the ceramics engineers Andrew Reif Blackburn and Richard E. Steele.
The first RAM Press was made by Harold Dawson in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1986, RAM Products introduced the 15-ton cub press for use by studio potters.
[1] In operation a slice of de-aired clay body is placed in between two shaped porous moulds or dies, and vertical movement of the moulds presses the body into the required shape.