Abschnitt 1 - Application area
These principle design rules are exclusively applicable in the corrugated board industry for the operation of transfer cars and conveyors.
A corrugated cardboard plant consists of the following main components:
Feeding of material (paper reels).
Corrugators for the production of corrugated board.
Intermediate storage and internal material handling.
Material converting (die-cutting, scoring, printing),
Transportation/storage.
Due to the ever-increasing performance of modern production and converting machines the internal material transport in a corrugated board plant gains more and more importance.
The quantity of converted material in corrugated board plants increases continuously leading to ever-higher requirements to the capacity of the machines.
The feeding of corrugated board sheets to the converting machines and also the discharge have to be operated quickly and smoothly. The transfer car and the conveyors take these tasks.
The system for the transportation of corrugated board stacks of different sizes and heights essentially consists of two components:
Transfer cars.
conveyors serving and feeding / discharge equipment and storage areas
Transfer cars are subject to the range of applications according to the → EG-machine directive 2006/42/EG that have to be followed by the manufacturer as of 29.12.2009.
To provide more precise indications to the health and safety requirements of this directive a European standard has been compiled: → DIN EN 619 "Continuous handling equipment and systems/Safety and EMC requirements for mechanical handling of unit loads" This has been adopted into the national set of standards.
The principle design rules contain on the one hand specific safety requirements concerning construction and equipment of transfer cars taking into account the EC machine directive to be applied by the manufacturer and on the other hand the requirements for the safe operation of transfer cars in producing and processing corrugated board plants.
Further information
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EG machine directive 2006/42/EG
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DIN EN 619 "Continuous handling equipment and systems/ Safety and EMC requirements for mechanical handling of unit loads"