CHAPTER 4 - MACHTNERY DANGER ZONE AND POINTS OF OPERATION
a slot or hopper or a rod located directly in front
7.17 Starching Machine (Cylinder or Box Type)
(Class Aj. Eacn starching machine shall have
ihe rolls or cylinders guarded so as to prevent
contact by the employees while the machine is
in motion.
?"{8 Drying Tumbler (Horizontal Conventional
Type) (Class A):
a. Each dryirrg tumbler shall be equipped with
an interiocking device that will prevent the
inside cylinder from moving when the door
on the case or shell is open' Such device
shall also prevent the door from being
opened while the inside cylinders is in
motion'
Nofe: Ihis should not prevent the movement
of the inner cylinder under the action of a
hand-operated mechanism or under the
oPeration of an "inching" deviae'
b. Each drying tumbler shall be provided with
adequate means for holding open the doors
or covers of inner and outer cylinders or
shells while being loaded or unloaded'
c. Each drying tumbler shall be equipped with
br"akes or other positive lockinE devices to
prevent tl"re inner cylinder from moving
during loading and unloading' "lnching
devices" are Permitted.
Exception: Shakeout or canditioning
tumblers where the clothes are loaded into
the open end of the revolving cylinder and
are automaticatly discharged out of
oPPosite end-
7.19 Shaker (Clothes Tumbler, Batch Type) (CIass
A):
a. Each shaker or clothes tumbler shall be
equipped with a device that will prevent the
tumbler from moving while the door is open'
The tumbler shall be enclosed or guarded
so as to prevent accidental contact'
b. Each shaker or clothes tumbler shall be
equipped with brakes or other positivt'
locking devices to prevent the insidt"
cylinder from moving when the machine t:;
loaded or unloaded. "lnching devices" are
Permitted'
7.20 Dampening Machine (Class A)' The rolls
dampening machines shall be guarded by either
of the feed'and extending the full length of the
roll.
7.21 lroner (Flatwork Type) (Class A):
a. Each flat-work and collar ironer shall
equipped with a guard across the enti(
froni of the feed or first pressure roles, so
arranged that when struck, the machine will
immediatelY stoP'
b. The pressure rolls shall be guarded be
or
covered so that an ernployee cannot
caught or Pulled into the rolls.
7.22 lroner (Body Type) (Class A)' Each body
ironer, sfratt Ue equipped with a guard across
the entire length of the feed roll or' shoe, so
arranged that when struck, the machine will
immediatelY stoP.
7.23 lroner (Rotary'body Type) (Glass A)' Each
combined rotary bosom and coat-ironer shall be
equipped with a guard across the entire length
of'the feed roll or shoe, so arranged that when
struck, the machine will immediately stop'
7.24 lroner (Press TYPe) (Class A)
a. Each ironing press (excluding hand or foot
power presses) shall be equipped with a two
hand device which require the simultaneous
action of both hands to operate the press'
b. Every power-driven ironing press of the type
'in
the used the dry cleaning or garment
manufacturing industry shall be equipped
with two hand controls which will require the
simultaneous use of both hands to apply
heavy pressure or to look the press'
7.25 Laundry Machine. Working areas around the
Laundry Machine shall be provided with non
skid or sliP-resistant flooring.
Section 8.0 Leather and Gomposition
Good Machines
8.1 Dinking and Glicking Machlnes (Glass A)'
Every dinking machine shall be guarded by at
least one of the following methods:
8.3 I
a. "safety type" dies shall be used throughout'
Dies of t-fris type shall be at least 75 mm in
on height provided with safety grooves or
flanges. This safety flanges reduce the
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