Ok, thanks for clarifying.
I had one of those. I ended up donating it to someone else because I didn't find it useful. The ferrotyping plate (it came with two plates in good condition) didn't work for me; all I could manage was inseparably fuse a print with the plate, and I could only remove it by soaking the whole thing and scraping off the remains of the print while wet (obviously destroying the print). For 'ferrotyping', the present 'best practice' appears to be to use plexiglass. Indeed, I've tried that and it worked much better, indeed. There are YouTube videos on this and there's at least one thread about it here on Photrio, too.
For simply drying a print, I didn't find that dryer very useful either, as the edges would still remain wavy. I got essentially the same effect as air-drying my prints and then flattening them with a clothes iron. There are other ways of getting a fiber based print perfectly flat, and they don't involve this 1940s contraption. One of them is the other type of press I posted, but they are rare and expensive.
For RC (resin coated), none of this is of course necessary at all; you just hang those prints to dry and they're perfectly flat, and if you use a glossy RC paper, they're also very glossy without further treatment.
Maybe someone else who actually found this piece of equipment useful could chime in with some more constructive comments. My personal recommendation would be to just give it away to someone who wants to play with it.
If you end up discarding it, please be careful and responsible about it since there's usually an asbestos plate inside for heat insulation. You don't want to damage that, or risk it from ending up someplace where it may be treated carelessly and cause a health hazard.
