DIN Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering
Plastics and rubber machines - Thermoforming machines - Safety requirements
Abstract
This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to thermoforming machines for continuous sheet and single sheets of thermoplastics materials, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Clause 4). A thermoforming machine may consist of a forming unit or a forming unit linked to one or more additional units. This standard covers the fol-lowing units: - continuous sheet unwind unit; - single sheet feed unit; - material in-take; - conveying equipment; - heating unit; - preheating unit; - edge heating unit; - component feeding/inserting unit; - forming station; - finishing station; - stacking station; - discharge station; - residual sheet winding unit; - sheet cutting unit. This European standard does not apply to units mounted upstream or downstream of the thermoforming machine: - which have a separate control system; and/or - are located separately. NOTE 1 This European Standard specifies requirements for machines supplied as a single forming unit or a number of units designed to operate as a single machine. Additional units that may be introduced at a later stage should be considered separately applying relevant standards and taking into account any hazards arising through their interaction with the thermoforming machine. This European Standard does not apply to units which are integrated into form, fill and seal machines. These are covered in EN 415-3:1999. This European standard does not apply to units which incorporate heating systems which are fuelled by gas. NOTE 2 Thermoforming machines generally do not create explosive atmos-pheres. In principle they therefore correspond with line F of Table 2 of the ATEX Guideline and consequently do not fall within the scope of Directive 94/9/EC. This European Standard is not applicable to thermoforming machines which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.
Begin
2010-09-08
WI
00145069
Planned document number
EN 12409/FprA1
Responsible national committee
NA 060-14-10 AA - Thermoforming machines
Responsible european committee
CEN/TC 145 - Plastics and rubber machines
draft standard
Plastics and rubber machines - Thermoforming machines - Safety requirements
2011-04
Order from DIN Media
previous edition(s)
Plastics and rubber machines - Thermoforming machines - Safety requirements
2008-10
