Fencing and safety precautions for cotton spinning and weaving machinery. Part 2, Cotton spinning and doubling processes / issued by the Home Office.

Date:
1920
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Credit: Fencing and safety precautions for cotton spinning and weaving machinery. Part 2, Cotton spinning and doubling processes / issued by the Home Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX ITI. NOTES OF AGREEMENTS. FENCING AND SAFEGUARDS. (a) On new machinery all projecting set-screws on continuously revolving parts shall either be countersunk or be otherwise efficiently protected; where projecting set-screws are placed inside box pulleys they shall be deemed to be efiiciently - protected. Projecting set-screws on existing machinery are to be dealt with by Inspectors according as the occurrence of accidents may indicate the necessity of countersinking or protection. (c) Ladders, other than step-ladders, shall be fitted with hooks or other non-skid device—provided that in mule rooms or in rooms where persons work with bare feet, ladders shall not be fitted at the bottom with spikes. (d) Heavy overhead main driving belts or ropes shall be guarded undemeath in all cases where there is liability of persons having to pass under them. Note.—This does not refer to the strap that drives the mules, nor to the rope-race in the engine-house. (e) It shall be obligatory on any ‘woman or girl working about machinery to have her hair put up or otherwise confined in a net. (f) All firms are to be urged to keep a supply of sterilised dressings, which shall be kept available for first aid for any operative who receives a cut or wound. Self-acting Mules. (a) The guards for middle backshaft scrolls shall be fitted witk flanges to protect the intake of the bands and the side of the scroll. The guards for middle draw band and _ carrier pulleys shall be either fixed to the bottom creel board, or be so fastened otherwise that they cannot readily be knocked aside. The side pieces of the guard shall be extended inwards far enough to completely guard the nip between the band and the scroll. (This rule was agreed to in principle, but the exact forms of the guards are to be decided upon later.) (6) On new machines the guards for faller stops shall consist of a cover over the stop. The combined guard and faller stop shall not be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this rule. (c) On new machines the guards for end draw band pulleys shall be extended at least half an inch beyond the end of the pulley. © (d) Where persons have to stand on creels to attach driving belts. (not countershaft belts), the two creels shall be joined together by timber to form a platform on which to stand, or some other equally safe method shall be adopted to the satisfaction of the Inspector. (e) In new mills the space behind the mules shall not be less than three feet between the rovings. (f) Metal fasteners shall not be used for overhead driving belts unless the belt itself be securely fenced—provided that this rule shall not apply to metal fasteners consisting of a continuous wire stitching held together by a peg other than a metal peg.