table-feed

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun That detail in the design of a machine-tool by which the work secured to a holding-chuck on a table is moved, in the feeding process, against or toward the path of the tool which is fixed relatively to the frame.
• noun In sheet-metal work, an automatic feed-motion employing a table which slides on ways. The sheets to be punched are clamped to the table, and the table is timed to pass under the dies of the perforating-press at the speed required to meet the dies' at every stroke, or at a variable speed where the perforations are distributed over irregular distances on the plate.