Fencing and safety precautions for wood-working machinery / issued by the Home Office.

Date:
1928
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fencing and safety precautions for wood-working machinery / issued by the Home Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    labourers, the oiler and belt attendant must go into these cellars from time to time to bag-up sawdust and so forth. They do this at great peril, and far too many fatalities have resulted from such conditions. Shafting and millgearing in such a situation must be protected in the most complete detail. See Safety Pam- phlet No. 1.* | The more modern practice is to ‘‘cut and cover,’’ that 1s to say, to instal shafting and pulleys in trenches covered by plates or loose lengths of board. Sawdust and chips are excluded from these trenches, and oiling is done (it should not be attempted when the machinery is running) by lifting single boards over the bearings. Oil pipes from the bearings up to the floor level have not the vogue which they merit, both as a safety and a labours The remarks and illustrations which follow relate to Safety De- vices, classified separately, for :— Circular Saws. Band Saws. Planing Machines (Jointers or ‘‘ Buzz-planers ’’). Feed-rollers and gearing of Planing and Moulding Machines (Thicknesses, Panel-planers, 3 and 4 Side Planers and Moulders). Spindle Moulders (Wood-shapers). Mortising Machines (Chain and Chisel). * See page 2 of the cover of this pamphlet.
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