Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung

Safety of woodworking machines - Circular sawing machines - Part 13: Horizontal beam panel sawing machines
 N SN EN 1870-13+A2

Annotation

This document deals with !all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to horizontal beam panel sawing machines where the saw unit of the front cutting line is mounted below the workpiece support and which are manually or mechanically loaded and / or unloaded, fitted with:

— a side pressure device and / or

— the facility for scoring and / or

— the facility for post-formed / soft-formed edge pre-cutting and / or

— a panel turning device and / or

— a pushing out device and / or

— pneumatic clamping of the saw blade and / or

— a powered panel loading device and / or

— a grooving device and / or

— additional cutting line(s) inside the machine for longitudinal and / or head cut (before transversal cutting line) and / or

— workpiece vacuum clamping as part of a panel turning device or of a panel loading device,

hereinafter referred to as "machines" when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including reasonably foreseeable misuse.

The machines are designed for cutting panels consisting of: